2028 election

The 2028 Presidential Election was the 61st quadrennial United States Presidential Election, held on Tuesday, November 5th, 2028. The Democratic ticket of Pennsylvania Governor Arc and New Jersey Senator Clarinetist defeated the incumbent Republican president Plastic-Ramen and his Vice President Revan, as well as the Independent lawyer from Michigan Frak Reynolds and the Senator from New York Due Long.

Arc and Plastic had faced off against each other 4 years prior in the 2024 presidential election. Plastic had led a moderate, centrist administration, though it was plagued by several scandals. After the 2026 midterms, Governor Arc was renominated, as was his previous VP pick Clarinetist, by a landslide margin. The independent lawyer from Michigan, Frak Reynolds, decided to enter the race around that same time, with the Republican senator from New York, Due Long, as his running mate.

Reynolds polled strong enough to get himself in the presidential debates, becoming the first third-party candidate to do so since Ross Perot in 1992. His radical centrist, populist policies were believed to have taken more votes from the Republican campaign than they did the Democratic one. After a close campaign season, Governor Arc defeated both Plastic and Reynolds by a margin of 49-28-20. He won 271 electoral votes, almost a plurality instead of a majority, which would have sent the election to the House of Representatives. Plastic got 158 electoral votes, while Reynolds got 109.

The 2028 election was the first major three-way race since 1992, and the first one in which all candidates got electoral votes since 1968. Plastic was later nominated and confirmed as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, Reynolds became Secretary of Energy, before running to become Governor of Pennsylvania and Senator from New Hampshire. He ran again in 2032 under the Republican Party ticket, and defeated Arc.