JayTheZoomster

James "Jay" Zoomster (born January 17, 1988) is an American politician who currently serves as the senior United States senator from North Carolina ever since Early Winter 2031, succeeding Republican United States senator Richard Burr. He is a former member of the Democratic party before joining the Progressive Union as part of the Democratic coalition. In 2036 he was the presidential nominee for the Democratic coalition, however he lost in a landslide to incumbent President Fraklin Reynolds.

Early life and education
Jay was born in Greensboro, North Carolina on January 17th, 1988. He is the middle child of three and the only son in the family. His mother worked a minimum wage job to provide for his family. After his father became disabled, the family fell on hard times and Jay began working long hours alongside his mother to help provide for the family. Eventually, he was accepted into the University of North Carolina, Asheville where he majored in Film. However, he eventually changed his major to Political Science and graduated with that as his degree.

He eventually began volunteering for several statewide campaigns, including Bev Perdue's 2008 Gubernatorial bid and Walter Dalton's 2012 Gubernatorial bid. He even actively volunteered for several senate candidates throughout the state including Kay Hagan's 2014 campaign against the speaker of the NC House of Representatives, Thom Tillis. He eventually married his girlfriend in 2019.

Political Career
In 2016, Jay was elected mayor of Greensboro in a landslide election. As mayor, Jay was able to fix the city's dwindling infrastructure as well as crack down on the increasing levels of poverty and homelessness through several programs that allowed for new public housing to be built for those who needed it. He frequently worked alongside workers in the city to make sure everything was working well for them as they were vital to the city's success. After his first term, he said his aspirations were moving bigger.

In 2020, Jay ran for the North Carolina House of Representatives to represent District 61. He won in a narrow election against the Republican candidate. While in the NC house, he frequently collaborated on bills to expand medicaid in the state, increase teacher pay and provide a better budget for the state to use going forward. He was noted for frequent attempts at bipartisanship, despite his staunch progressive views. After serving four terms, he declined to run for a fifth in 2028, leaving his political future in flux.

Jay's influence on the state has been seen as he's turned the state pretty much reliably blue on most levels, except Presidential, which remains a tilt blue margin.

2030 Election
In 2029, Jay announced he would seek the nomination for the open United States Senate seat from North Carolina in the 2030 election. He was nominated in the primary and faced off in the general against Republican Rev Up. During the election, Jay promised to visit every county in the state and to hear the struggles and needs of every citizen that he could. Unfortunately, the plan was sidetracked by the 2030 Summer War. Suspending his campaign for months meant that Zoomster had to cancel most of his plans and continue his campaign with the little time he had left.

On election night, North Carolina was called early as he won with 57% of the vote over his Republican opponent. This was the largest Senate win the state since Democrat B. Everett Jordan defeated R. Kyle Hates in 1960 with over 61% of the vote.

Tenure
Upon his arrival in the senate, the Arc administration was winding down and the senate was barely productive. Zoomster didn't author many bills or vote on many throughout the first two years until the Reynolds administration began, following the 2032 Presidential Election. In the new administration and senate, several bills were proposed and voted on, including several co-sponsored by Zoomster. With Senator HelpfulAd, he co-sponsored the Food Plan Act of 2033 as well as the Housing ACT. He also introduced a landmark bill to cut college tuition with Senator HelpfulAd, although it failed to pass due to partisan pushback. His most recent accomplishment was co-sponsoring a landmark Trans Rights bill alongside Senator Noodles.

In 2033 during the Democratic party split, Zoomster initially remained alongside the Democrats until he joined the Progressive Union was an agreement was decided and the Democratic Coalition war formed.

2036 Election
Zoomster initially faced off against charismatic Republican candidate Greg before he dropped out and was replaced by a far less interesting Republican. Due to this, Jay coasted to re-election very easily, winning with over 70% of the vote and only losing Yadkin County.

2036 Presidential Campaign
Following the dropping out of Democratic Nominee Shy, the US Senator from Delaware, Jay entered the presidential race with Ohio Senator Leave as his running mate. The two faced several hardships in the campaign as they were going up against an insanely popular president and a lack of momentum after losing their first nominee. The two consistently trailed in most polls until the final few before the election, which seemed to show a shift in the race. Unfortunately, come the election President Reynolds was re-elected very easily. The final margin was 53%-40%-7% with the 7% belonging to independent candidate Ironic. Frak won 367 electoral votes to Jay's 165 electoral votes and Ironic's 4. Frak's electoral college win was the largest since President Bill Clinton's reelection in 1996.

Jay and Leave's campaigns will be looked back on in the future as ones of misfortunate. Whether it came from the lack of momentum due to a switch in nominees, the extreme popularity of Reynolds or Ironic vote splitting and taking several key progressive voters - the blame has rarely fallen squarely on Jay and Leave as candidates.

Personal life
Jay is currently married to his wife of 17 years, and currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.