Christian Bo
| Christian Bo | |
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| 59th President of the United States | |
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Assumed office March 12, 2021 | |
| Vice President | Ian Bellinger |
| Preceded by | Sandoval |
| 59th Vice President of the United States | |
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In office November 10, 2020 – March 12, 2021 | |
| President | Sandoval |
| Preceded by | Cabin |
| Succeeded by | Ian Bellinger |
| President pro tempore of the United States Senate | |
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In office October 12, 2020 – October 13, 2020 | |
| Preceded by | James Order |
| Succeeded by | Drunk |
| Senate Majority Leader | |
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In office October 21, 2020 – November 10, 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Epsilon |
| Succeeded by | Howard Elkridge |
| Senate Minority Leader | |
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In office September 13, 2020 – October 21, 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Valerie |
| Succeeded by | Ricca |
| United States Senator from Dixie | |
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In office September 10, 2020 – November 10, 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Trash |
| Succeeded by | Ethan Armstrong |
| White House Chief of Staff | |
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In office September 29, 2020 – November 10, 2020 | |
| President | Garland |
| Preceded by | Arkenstone |
| Succeeded by | Computerguy15 |
| Speaker of the Dixie General Assembly | |
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In office September 26, 2020 – November 9, 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Phoenix |
| Succeeded by | Miguel |
| Member of the Dixie General Assembly | |
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In office August 5, 2020 – February 9, 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Andrew Blaze |
| Succeeded by | Moonguy |
| Constituency | 1st District (14th Assembly – 16th Assembly) |
| Dixie Secretary of State | |
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In office October 10, 2020 – November 9, 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Drunk |
| Succeeded by | Randy Rhombus |
| Dixie Secretary of Internal Affairs | |
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In office July 3, 2020 – October 10, 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Jason Miner |
| Succeeded by | John |
| Chairman of the Libertarian Party | |
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In office November 13, 2020 – January 16, 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Valerie |
| Succeeded by | Howard Elkridge |
| Personal Details | |
| Born | Orlando, Florida |
| Political party | Libertarian Party |
| Education | Univerity of Tampa (BS) |
| Awards | Presidential Medal of Freedom (2021) |
Christian Ludacris Bo is an American politician who currently serves as 59th President of the United States. A member of the Libertarian Party, he previously served as the 59th Vice President of the United States under Sandoval and represented Dixie in the Senate from September, 2020 to November, 2020.
Early Life, Education, Career
Bo was born in Orlando, Florida to unmarried parents, Linda Wilton and Gary Bo. He also has one brother, Dominic Bo, and has said that he was close with his family throughout his childhood despite his parent’s lack of marriage. They went on to move to Winter Garden, Florida, where Bo went on to graduate from West Orange High School.
He went on to attend the University of Tampa in which he earned a B.S. in political science. Following that, he went on to become a professional campaign manager and, later on, political scientist with a focus on public policy and law in the Tampa area. Eventually he went on to open a political consulting firm, based out of Tampa and Orlando, which he operated until 2018. Throughout this, he has said he gained great knowledge and passion for developing public policy and being involved in the political sphere.
Following the 2018 governmental restructuring within the United States, Bo took a small leave of absence from his work within politics and opted to spend a majority of the time up until 2020 with his family, enjoying a private life and career. However, in July of 2020, Dixie Governor Sandoval appointed Bo to serve as the Secretary of Internal Affairs for the State of Dixie in which he oversaw a multitude of things within that Department.
Dixie General Assembly
Bo was initially elected to the Dixie General Assembly in the August 2020 state elections to represent Dixie’s First district, which at the time consisted of the regions of Texas and Oklahoma. In this election, Bo faced Senator Trash, Representative John Smith, and the incumbent Assemblyman Andrew Blaze. Many originally expected the race to go for Sen. Trash due to his experience and magnitude within the state. However, Bo outspent Trash by $30,000 and went on to win the election with 52% of the vote, with Trash getting just 30% and Smith and Blaze taking the rest, and the election results were a shock to many.
Within the first half of the term in the Assembly, Bo was extremely productive and passed multiple pieces of legislation, including establishing LGBTQ+ curriculum in schools, legalizing prostitution, expanding access to contraceptives, criminal justice reform, and voting rights. In the second half of the term, the Assembly vacated the incumbent Speaker, Phoenix, due to him refusing to put the ratification of the Choice Amendment up for debate and, subsequently a vote, within the Assembly. Following this event, Bo was elected Speaker of the Assembly without opposition.
In the October state elections, Bo ran for re-election and faced political newcomer The Owl. However, The Owl did not show up to campaign or debate and Bo won re-election in a landslide, taking nearly 86% of the vote. Bo went on to be re-elected as Speaker of the Assembly for the 15th session. Bo, once again, provided another productive session in the Assembly, passing the Fair Vote Amendment, which instituted Ranked Choice Voting within Dixie, LGBTQ+ rights legislation, a resolution as to investigate the Dixie Secession Plot, and the budget for that session, which implemented a land value tax within the state. In the December state elections, Bo ran for a third term, and his opponent was former Assemblyman Ethan Matthias. While the race was more contentious than some expected, Bo prevailed taking 57% of the vote over Matthias’ 43%.
U.S. Senate
In the weeks preceding the September 2020 federal elections, Bo was initially considering a run for the House of Representatives. However, Bo received encouragement from the Libertarian Party to run for Senate to unseat the incumbent, Trash, the same person who he beat in the Assembly race just a month prior. Following this, Bo accepted and decided to run.
The race was contentious and, similar to the Assembly race, before the election began most predicted that Trash would end up victorious and with another six month term in the Senate. The debate between the two was one of the longest in that cycle, and the campaign was tied for the second most expensive race within that election cycle, with the two spending a combined $190,000. Trash ended up outspending Bo by $10,000, yet Bo emerged victorious on election day, taking 50.2% of the vote to Trash’s 49.8%. The margin of victory was well within the recount threshold, and Trash went on to file a recount. However, following it, Bo’s lead expanded and the final election results ended up being 50.71% for Bo and 49.29% for Trash. Bo was one of just three Libertarian wins within that election, and, afterwards, Bo was selected as Senate Minority Leader for the caucus of just him and Senator Valerie.
Following then-President pro tempore James Order’s resignation from the Senate and, thus, President pro tempore, Bo was briefly elected President pro tempore because he was the only nominated candidate to meet the requirements, despite the left’s supermajority within the chamber. However, his tenure did not last long, due to a motion to appeal the decision of the chair and revert the Senate back to the procedure from before in which nominations were open until all Senators had made a nomination. Following this, Senators Valerie and Bo did not make nominations on the Senate floor and, due to the previous motion which reinstated old rules, an election for President pro tempore could not go forward. Though, before then-Vice President Cabin Fever’s ascension to the Vice President, he handed the gavel to Senator Valerie, the Deputy President pro tempore. Later on, however, the left majority held an illegal election for President pro tempore in which a staffer from the same stole the gavel from Senator Valerie, in an act described as assault on the only female Senator at the time. This event became known as Gavelgate. The Senate was, for most of this period, unable to proceed with business and items of legislation, until a point of order from Bo which allowed the Senate to do as such. To get the gridlock over, and go back to normal within the Senate, the Social Democratic members of the left majority caucus led by Senator Epsilon Leclair broke off and, together, the Social Democrats formed a Cooperative Caucus in which Bo was Majority Leader and Drunk was elected President pro tempore closely afterwards.
Bo resigned from the Senate on November 10th, 2020, following his ascension to the Vice Presidency.
Vice Presidency
Bo was selected as Libertarian Party Presidential nominee and Dixie Governor Sandoval’s Vice Presidential nominee during his campaign for the Presidency in the November 2020 election. Originally slated to face a ticket composed of Former Senator Trash and Rep. Kevin Murphy, they faced off against Former House Speaker NotAName and Former Representative XRT-17 following the Trash Scandal, along with an independent ticket of Ryan Daly and Former Senator Zarphos.
The two went on to win the election in a landslide, winning in the North, Jefferson, Dixie, and Washington, D.C. Sandoval and Bo won a total of 18 electoral votes to NotAName and XRT-17’s 11 electoral votes, with Daly and Zarphos not winning any. Furthermore, they won a majority of the national popular vote with a 10 point margin. The following day, Bo was sworn in as Vice President of the United States.
As Vice President, Bo has been an active governing partner for President Sandoval, something which he promised during the campaign. In the role, he has taken COVID-19 head on as head of the White House Coronavirus Committee, along with presiding over the Senate on a regular basis similar to that of his predecessor in the Vice Presidency, Cabin. Furthermore, he has helped attempt to implement the administration’s agenda, having helped author various pieces of legislation and advising on things such as executive orders.
Bo served as Acting President from February 8, 2021, to February 14, 2021, while President Sandoval underwent a medical procedure. In the brief period, he signed five different executive orders and memoranda, to allow for the revocation of President Medals of Freedom, followed by a subsequent revocation of Bill Cosby's Medal of Freedom, to revoke the public health emergency regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, to stop the expedition of environmental reporting requirements for large-scale infrastructure projects, and to establish reporting requirements for various different federal agencies. Furthermore, in this brief period he helped free Salvatore Basile, an American hostage in China.
Presidential Campaign
Bo announced a Presidential campaign for the March 2021 federal election on January 25th, 2021. Many thought that no matter who the left ran, despite much controversy regarding the Sandoval Administration, that the election would be extremely competitive considering Bo's popularity and political magnitude. Bo went on to be acclaimed as the Libertarian-Republican Party's nominee for President on February 15, 2021. He selected Ian Bellinger, a Senator from Puerto Rico and Secretary of the Treasury, to be his running mate, despite many thinking that he would have picked Senate Minority Leader Howard Elkridge. He faced off against a ticket composed of Senate Majority Leader Epsilon Leclair, who won the joint primary between the Social Democratic and Global Labour parties, and Speaker of the House Rose McAlister.
Some thought that Leclair would go on to win the election, however following the government shutdown, which many pinned on Leclair and McAlister as the reason for it, the game changed and the election became much more competitive. The Sandoval Administration was arguably the biggest point of contention during the election, including controversies regarding activity, the budget issue and government shutdown, and the shooting down of a Chinese drone in November, 2020. Bo and Leclair partook in four debates, one of them which had to be rescheduled due to the former not showing up on time, with instead each candidate having a town hall period before the rescheduled debate. For the most part, the debates were contentious, particularly the final one, with candidates delivering blows back and forth to each other regarding mainly the aforementioned controversies, most notably the budget issue. Puerto Rico was largely considered the most important state this election, and one which would be decided with just a handful of votes, mainly due to the fact that it's electoral vote allocation was winner-take-all. Many said that whoever went on to win the state would end up winning the election as a whole.
Bo went on to win the electoral college with 18 votes, over the necessary 16 to win, to Leclair's 12. Bo won his home State of Dixie, his running mate's home state, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia. He tied in electoral votes in the North and Jefferson, however lost the popular vote in both. Leclair won the nationwide popular vote, too, despite Bo's victory in the electoral college. Leclair went on to concede in a speech which some have described as "Trumpian", calling the Libertarian-Republican Party corrupt, amongst other things.
There were multiple court cases with respect to the outcome of the election. The first, in Puerto Rico, was spearheaded by Senator Joash Trudeau, who was trying to argue that the electoral vote allocation law which Puerto Rico defaulted onto which made it a winner-take-all state was phrased in a manner so that the national popular vote winner should win the state's electoral votes, however the case was dismissed following opening arguments. In Jefferson, Computerguy15 filed a case arguing that the state improperly used Ranked Choice Voting in the election, meaning that the election had to be redone. A motion for summary judgement was granted and the case was dismissed. Finally, just a few minutes before the electoral vote allocation, Leclair himself filed a case saying that Jefferson's votes should be allocated in a winner-take-all method, however it was too late by the time the court was able to review and accept or deny the case and it was later denied due to a lack of case or controversey.
Bo, in his capacity as Vice President and, therefore, President of the Senate, presided over the certification of the election in a joint session of Congress.
Presidency
Bo was sworn in as President of the United States on March 21, 2021 by Chief Justice Thanos May. A few minutes following, he appointed Howard Elkridge to be White House Chief of Staff and James Wonder to be Deputy White House Chief of Staff, in which executive nominations followed. On his first day in office, he published a bill to abolish three strikes laws and issued an executive order to establish an Executive Council on the Criminal Code, delivering his "first day" campaign promises made on the campaign trail. Since that point, he has issued various executive orders and memorandum, the more notable ones including establishing the Office of Health Emergency Preparedness, ending the Mexico City Policy, and banning the usage of tear gas and rubber bullets by federal law enforcement officials. Furthermore, his administration successfully renegotiated a Memorandum of Understanding with the People's Republic of China, following neither party recognizing the original 2018 agreement, providing for China to continue implementation of the Nuclear Disarmament Treaty and the U.S. working to practic restraint in the South China Sea and recognizing the issues thereof as political rather than militaristic.
Among others, up until this point, the Administration's most notable legislative proposal was the April budget, which came under some controversy following budget negotiations when it was released publicly. In the released budget, which was negotiated with and cosponsored by all members of Congressional leadership, included a slew of Bo's campaign promises, including establishing a healthcare block grant in favor of repealing the American Healthcare Insurance Reform Act, more commonly known as LOTRcare, establishing a tax relief program for workers' cooperatives, creating a program to enhance job training initiatives nationwide, and repealing the Women's Healthcare Act in favor of a conditional grant program depending on the levels of sexual education and contraception access of certain states. The budget also included provisions from the left majority, including establishing programs to provide financial assistance to Black farmers, regulate high frequency arbitrage transactions, and establishing a grant program regarding hiring mental health officials in schools. The most controversial provision was Title IV, which established the healthcare block grant, which came under scrutiny for defunding Medicare and Medicaid, which Bo and others described as largely moot, ineffective, and wasteful following the enactment of state-level universal programs which provided greater coverage for lesser cost. Bo was joined in support for the block grant program and aforementioned funding levels on individuals on the left and right, however there was stark opposition from many, most notably Global Labour Senator Jeb. With talks of a potential continuing resolution to reopen negotiations or substantial amendments being made to the agreed to budget, Bo rejected both and insisted on passing the budget as negotiated and agreed to, publicly saying he would not support a continuing resolution and saying that no other bills would be approved until the budget was passed as-is. It ended up passing both chambers of Congress, with nothing but small technical amendments made, with Bo having signed the act on the April 12, 2021. The budget has been renowned as a major win for the Libertarian-Republican Party, due to the large spending cuts present within the budget and transition into more libertarian-oriented federal healthcare policy, with some arguing that the left did not fight to stop the Administration's agenda hard enough. Bo rejected such an idea, having said when signing "Truly, everyone has a reason to be proud of this over forty page goliath which was crafted by the Administration and various members of Congress."
Libertarian Party
Following the November 2020 federal elections, Libertarian Party Chairwoman Valerie opted not to seek a third term as Chairman. Bo opted to run, and faced off against Aegues Phoenix for the role. Bo emerged victorious, taking 80% of the vote, and was elected to be the Libertarian Party’s third Chair. Bo opted not to run for a second term as Chairman, and he was succeeded by Howard Elkridge.
Political Beliefs
Bo is one of the more moderate members of the Libertarians, and is extremely socially liberal. Economically, he is around the center, though he has opposed certain left wing measures such as the Direct Tax Amendment or bills to raise the minimum wage at the federal level. On social issues, he supported the Choice Amendment and was also the plaintiff in a court case to strike down Dixie’s abortion ban. He also supports further power devolution to the states, the land value tax, and a universal basic income. His liberal stance on things such as LGBTQ+ rights and abortion has supposedly helped him with certain moderate left wing voters in various elections, such as his election to the Senate.
Personal Life
Bo is married to his wife, Amanda, an educator and teacher, and together they have two children, Carolann and Henry. Bo has a private residence in Tampa, Florida, along with a home in Arlington, Virginia.
Honors
Bo was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Sandoval on March 3, 2021.
Electoral History
Dixie General Assembly
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| LP | Bo | 52.96 | +52.96 | ||
| UL | Trash | 30.99 | +30.99 | ||
| ALC | Andrew Blaze | 9.51 | -65.49 | ||
| Independent | John Smith | 6.54 | +6.54 | ||
| LP gain from ALC | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LP | Bo | 85.95 | +32.99 | ||
| UL | The Owl | 12.76 | -18.23 | ||
| Independent | Marune | 1.25 | +1.25 | ||
| LP hold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| LP | Bo | 57.47 | -28.48 | ||
| SDP | Ethan Matthias | 41.68 | +41.68 | ||
| Independent | Poliman | .84 | +.84 | ||
| LP hold | |||||
Dixie State Cabinet
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| LP | Bo | 57.24 | +57.24 | ||
| SDP | Drunk | 41.68 | +41.68 | ||
| Independent | Marune | 1.07 | +1.07 | ||
| LP gain from SDP | |||||
United States Senate
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| LP | Bo | 50.79 | +50.71 | ||
| UL | Trash | 49.21 | -21.72 | ||
| LP gain from UL | |||||
March 2021 Presidential Election
| Presidential Candidate | Party | Home State | Popular Vote | Electoral Vote | Running Mate | |||
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| Vice-Presidential Candidate | Party | Home State | Electoral Vote | |||||
| Christian Bo | LRP | Dixie | 48.17% | 18 | Ian Bellinger | LRP | Puerto RIco | 18 |
| Epsilon Leclair | GLP | Jefferson | 50.99% | 12 | Rose McAlister | GLP | Jefferson | 12 |
| Other/Write-in | 0.84% | — | Other/Write-in | — | ||||
| Total | 100% | 30 | 30 | |||||
| Needed to win | 16 | 16 | ||||||