Stellaris: Earth Alliance

Chapter 267 Early Election

At the same time, after President McCray was killed, the vice president was killed one after another, and Portman's election was forced to be held in advance.

Wallace and his large campaign team toured Portman's cities on a speaking tour.

Having controlled multiple media outlets, they began to build momentum online and offline at the same time for the final sprint.

People have only two mentalities when voting, one is rational and the other is emotional.

In the history of the United States, there have been presidents who were elected because of their good looks, and there are also various influencing factors in Portman.

Emotional people usually look at the person's appearance, life experience, story behind it, and popularity.

Rational people completely ignore these things when voting and only focus on the other party's policies.

Wallace's policy is to target both robots and illegal immigrants.

How could Portman not have the ability to drive out all illegal immigrants? Isn't this because it is profitable?

To crack down on illegal immigration now is to go against the entire Portman vested interests.

But at the same time, he is on the side of many legal citizens of Portman.

Only when the problem of illegal immigration is resolved can jobs and job quality for legal citizens in Portman be restored.

Otherwise, you will only fall into the embarrassment of someone else doing it if you don’t do it.

In the end, the minimum wage stipulated by the government could not be achieved, and the boss and employees reached another set of contracts privately.

Now, Wallace is the richest man in Portman. With his strong money-making ability, he is extremely well-known.

The policy also received support from most people.

According to the latest polls, Wallace's approval rating has soared to 70%.

The highest among other candidates accounting for 30% is just over 10%.

In parliament, the Rockefey faction and other political parties supported by capital forces are exchanging information.

"So, which party does this Wallace who suddenly shows up belong to?"

Rockefy's Rockefy Party is the largest invisible party in Parliament.

They will not be activated most of the time, and will only pass or block the most critical policies. This is one of the most important reasons why Rockefey can secretly develop to its current size.

On the bright side, Portman has only two political parties, the Red Party and the Blue Party, one is the conservative Blue Party and the other is the radical Red Party.

The ideas pursued by the radical Red Party are actually similar to the policies that Wallace wants to pursue, but they are similar, and the parliament also has its own rules.

The Red Party pursues revolution, but it does not mean that it will revolutionize its own life.

The big investors behind them are capital from all walks of life. There is no problem in revolutionizing the lives of other companies, but don't revolutionize your own.

And Wallace's behavior was equivalent to directly breaking their internal rules.

Generally speaking, you won't get the support of big donors, and if you don't get the support of donors, you won't have campaign funds.

Without campaign funds, others won’t even know who you are, let alone elect you.

The problem now is that Wallace himself is Portman's richest man.

At least that's what it looks like on the surface.

Everyone in the Rockefeller Group was richer than he was, but they didn't dare show it.

After all, the government knows that you have more money, so it will naturally ask you to pay more taxes, so the rich list is also called the pheasant list, which is just for fun.

Because the real rich will not expose all their wealth.

But people don't think so much. Everyone only knows that he is the richest man, and that is enough.Wallace's entry into the game with great fanfare disrupted the plans of many capital groups.

It was originally agreed that you would take turns being president for a certain number of years, and then it was my turn to be president for a certain number of years.

As a result, the president suddenly died suddenly, and the vice president disappeared. Other capital groups hadn't prepared candidates yet, so they suddenly held a new general election, which Wallace caught a loophole.

When it comes to building momentum, the first person to gain limelight will attract a large number of people who follow suit.

Now that Wallace's momentum is established, it's almost impossible for anyone else to shake him.

The final result came from the parliament. This Wallace acted alone without any support behind him.

In other words, he is the one who supports him. After all, he is a capitalist himself.

The news reached Rockefy.

To be honest, Rockefeller would generally not take action against anyone outside unless the other party touched his roots.

After all, the more shots you take, the more likely you are to be noticed.

The most important reason why Rockefey was able to survive for tens of millions of years without being alerted by the outside world was that he kept a low profile.

But this time Rockefy can no longer keep a low profile.

Wallace reached out to illegal immigration, an issue that everyone knew about but no one dared to mention.

It has violated the interests of almost all vested interests.

And when he reached out to the issue of abolishing robots, he directly touched Rockefey's inverse scale.

As the saying goes, mastering a country's military is equivalent to mastering the country.

Rockefy is the largest invisible shareholder of Portman's largest military robot manufacturing factory.

With this level of identity, all robots sold to the Portman government were equipped with backdoors.

This technology is far superior to Portman's and belongs to the Kingdom of France and England.

Therefore, Portman found no problems at all, and was installed in large numbers in the army and police forces.

It's hard to say that Wallace's coming to power will not cut off most of these robots, but it will definitely limit the continued expansion of robots.

There has always been public opposition to robots.

Because robots have taken away too many of their jobs, the number of unemployed people in society has remained high.

Although there is also unemployment benefits, the costs here are huge for the people of a superpower.

You can be without a job for a while, but you cannot be without a job for a lifetime.

And a large number of robots and illegal immigrants are filling Portman's huge job market. No matter how huge the job market is, there is not much left for Portman citizens.

Many presidential candidates have seen this, but no one dared to raise it.

Only Wallace said so and planned to do so.

Rockefy felt unprecedented pressure, long after the first poll.

The results of the second poll were released, and Wallace's approval rating once soared to 95%. This is almost an irreversible trend.

It is true that Wallace's slogan involves the interests of too many people at the bottom.

Other presidential candidates will not be able to gain more attention unless they make more powerful campaign promises.

(End of this chapter)