- "The 2016 Republican Iowa caucuses on February 1 2016, were concluded through pretty close results between Ted Cruz (who won the Iowa caucuses with 28 % of the vote), Donald Trump (who got 24 %) and Marco Rubio (who got 23 % of the vote).If I made a timeline about an alternate scenario in which Donald Trump won the Iowa caucuses, it would not be interesting because I think that Trump would still have won the Republican nomination if he won the Iowa caucuses.So I decided to make a timeline about what would have happened if Florida Senator Marco Rubio, rising star of the Republican Party, won the Iowa caucuses." - Introduction
Iowa is Rubio Country is a Timeline on Dave Leip's Atlas Forums by UWS on the What If question of Florida Senator Marco Antonio Rubio winning the 2016 Republican Iowa Caucuses. From there, the Timeline goes into how Rubio's campaign, and later Presidency, goes from there.
It can be found here
This timeline provides examples of the following:
- Landslide Election: Both 2016 and 2020 are examples of this. In 2016, the GOP Ticket of Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Governor Nikki Haley (R-SC) defeats the Democratic Ticket of Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA)with 354 Electoral Votes and 53% of the Popular Vote to Clinton's 184 Electoral Votes and 45% of the Popular Vote. In 2020, President Rubio and Vice President Haley easily defeats Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT)and Former Governor Deval Patrick (D-MA)with 474 Electoral Votes (Including California of all states) 62% of the Popular vote to Sanders' 64 Electoral Votes and 37% of the Popular Vote. However, in real life, the Democratic presidential nominee in 2020 would be Joe Biden, not Bernie Sanders, but the Democratic presidential nomination was simulated in 2018.
