The final swing state had come in for Kamala Harris in the early morning of Nov. 6. With Pennsylvania’s 19 electoral votes, along with victories in Michigan and Wisconsin, the country’s first female president-elect pulled off an improbable victory over Donald Trump, winning the Electoral College 271-267.
“With this mandate, I’m here to ensure the hopes, dreams, and aspirations of the American people!” the president-elect ensured during her victory speech.
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For many pundits and pollsters, this hypothetical was a very real possibility going into Election Day. Forecasters from Nate Silver to Larry Sabato to FiveThirtyEight, and pundits from Bill Kristol to James Carville to Joe Scarborough all had Harris winning.
In the end, 48.4% of America actually did vote for Harris, while Trump clinched the race by less than two points in Pennsylvania, about 1.6 points in Michigan, and less than one point in Wisconsin. It was that close, just as it was in 2016 and 2020.
One can’t help wondering what the world would look like heading into President’s Day Weekend 2025 if the former vice president and her goofy running mate, Tim Walz, were actually elected.
Here’s a glimpse into this alternate reality.
January 20, 2025: After being sworn in, President Harris signs several executive orders, including one giving transgender athletes the right to dominate, er, compete against biological women in sports. She also signs one that declared Twitter/X would now be monitored under the government’s new “Hate Speech Task Force” in an effort to thwart white nationalism and misinformation.
As for her Cabinet, Kamala declares that the Senate, “must put Democracy over party” and confirm all her nominees to “ensure the smooth transition of government.”
Her team includes:
Chief of Staff: Alex Soros
Secretary of State: Susan Rice
Defense Secretary: Liz Cheney
Press Secretary: Don Lemon
Attorney General: Letitia James
FEMA Director: Gavin Newsom
DHS Secretary: Beto O’Rourke
Labor Secretary: Bernie Sanders
Treasury Secretary: Elizabeth Warren
Veterans Affairs: Richard Blumenthal
Health and Human Services (HHS) Director: Dr. Anthony Fauci
Secretary of Education: Randi Weingarten
Director of National Intelligence: Adam Kinzinger
Hate Speech Task Force Czar: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
For the first three weeks of the Harris presidency, the goal, despite running as the change candidate, is to continue as much of the Biden agenda as possible. Status quo and “play it safe” is the unwritten mantra.
Aid to Ukraine continues to go unabated and without any accountability on how exactly the money was being spent.
“We must continue to do whatever it takes to keep the fight against Russian aggression going, unburdened by what has been,” Harris declares in pre-written remarks before hurrying from the podium without taking questions from reporters.
In fact, Kamala’s handlers advise her not to do a press conference or take any questions outside of controlled environments in any capacity.
“Why President Harris Doesn’t Have to Take Questions From the Press,” is the “news analysis” piece that runs on the front page of the New York Times on Groundhog Day 2025, ironically.
In Gaza, Hamas continues to hold all hostages.
On the U.S. Southern Border, illegal migrants begin pouring into the country after Harris signs an Executive Order lifting Joe Biden’s order from June 2024 that limited asylum eligibility.
“The Statue of Liberty has always been a beacon of hope to the world for people to send their people to this country,” deputy White House press secretary Jim Acosta explains. It isn’t clear exactly what the legal immigration process has to do with the illegal variety, but that’s what the White House goes with, driving Sunny Hostin to tears on The View.
Meanwhile, violent gangs of illegals from Central and South America continue to expand their caliphate from New York to Chicago to Aurora, Colorado. “Just a few apartment complexes,” in the infamous words of ABC’s Martha Raddatz, become block after block, all while exhausted police forces with shrinking budgets (due to perpetually housing and feeding illegals in their cities).
On the economic front, one of President Harris’s big campaign promises is kept after she signs an Executive Order to end “price gouging” at grocery stores. Of course, the average profit margin at almost every grocery store is less than two percent, and sure … this gambit has failed miserably from everywhere from Cuba to Venezuela to the old Soviet Union, but thanks to the urging of Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, it becomes a reality.
Several months later, however, an actual price gouging bill fails to even make it to the floor of the House, with several Democrats and multiple Republicans opposing it. This becomes a common theme throughout President Harris’s first term.
Efforts to expand the U.S. to 52 states by adding DC and Puerto Rico as U.S. states fail.
A plan to tax unrealized capital gains also gets shot down, with the effort led by a rogue Nancy Pelosi.
Other lowlights include:
Former President Trump is sentenced in his so-called hush money case in New York and sent to a minimum-security prison, making the country even more hopelessly divided.
Government waste and corruption continue to go not only unabated, but actually expand.
America is declared a “sanctuary country.”
EV mandates become federalized.
Voting laws are federalized. The 2028 presidential election isn’t called until after Christmas as a result.
CRT is federally mandated to be taught in public schools, per Education Secretary Randi Weingarten.
Biological men posing as women post topless videos on social media during an LGBTQ+ Pride party on the South Lawn of the White House. (Wait, that already happened under Biden-Harris).
And at Vice President Walz’s direction, both tampons and condom machines are made available in all schools in girls’ and boys’ bathrooms across the U.S.
Thankfully, in the name of common sense, this alternate universe never left the fiction aisle.
Donald Trump won for two reasons: (1) Most of his policy positions are all in lockstep with what the majority of the American people want, namely on taxes, spending, cutting government waste, crime, immigration and foreign policy. Trump also had a track record that made enough voters believe his campaign promises would come to fruition (and thus far, they are); and (2) Kamala Harris simply came across as an inauthentic person who would say just about anything to get elected and therefore wasn’t believable.
A Harris presidency would have also posed the same question that dogged the Biden presidency: Who exactly is running the country? Is it Obama? Ron Klain? Susan Rice? The Soros family? Or someone we aren’t even considering?
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Looking ahead, polls show she’s the front-runner to be the Democratic nominee in an attempt to become the nation’s 48th president.
If you’re a Republican, that’s a non-fictional scenario absolutely worth rooting for.