[Presidential elections](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election) were held in the United States on November 7, 2000. The Democratic ticket of Delaware senator Joe Biden and his running mate Gavin Newsom of California defeated the GOP candidate of John Kasich and his running mate Mitt Romney.

Joe and Newsom ran on the following platforms:

* The codification of abortion rights in the United States.
* LGBTQ+ rights protections at the federal level.
* A formal alliance with Israel.
* Military and national security reforms.
* A crackdown on "religious bigotry".

Biden and Newsom won the election by 275 votes to Kasich and Romney's 266. 

The first 100 days of the Biden presidency began with a flurry of executive orders meant to strengthen existing protections for LGBTQ+ rights.

Biden's term, however, would run into trouble due to the rise of anti-Americanism in Mexico and throughout Central and South America, due to the United States of America's hostile policies against the Christian population of the country, more specifically the Catholic Church.

What did not help matters was the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that would unfold the following year, with many blaming the attacks on national security failures that Joseph Biden and his cabinet allegedly "caused" via intentional sabotage, despite Biden's promise of national security reforms.

Biden's executive order strengthening abortion rights in the United States would also be the source of much backlash from the United Kingdom of the Americas, which condemned abortion as a "national sin" and retaliated with a flurry of economic sanctions.

Ramon Hidalgo, King of the United Kingdom of the Americas, issued a formal condemnation of the United States in response to Biden's executive order strengthening abortion rights in the nation, claiming that "God will not show mercy to those who refuse to show mercy to the least of these."

In addition to this, Hidalgo severed all diplomatic relations with the United States, claiming that the United Kingdom of the Americas was a "holy country" and would therefore have nothing to do with "a nation that codifies child sacrifice as law."

Context/lore: In this timeline, Joe Biden runs for President earlier and manages to win thanks to a surge in support for LGBTQ+ rights before 2000. 

2000 US Presidential Election (Dark Liberty Universe)