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The Only Complete Political Career

Every decision echoes
on the road to 270 — and the eight years after.

Build your candidate from a first stump speech, survive the primary and the convention, and win 270 electoral votes state by state. Then actually govern: all 1,460 days of a term, the midterms that can wreck it, re-election, and — if the country lets you — a second term and a farewell address. Not a highlight reel. The whole career.

Election Night — Electoral College Polls open
270 TO WIN
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Overview

Run the whole campaign. Then run the country.

POTUS Election Sim puts you in charge of a presidential run from the ground up — full primary season, convention drama, and a running-mate decision that matters, as a Democrat, a Republican, or a third party you build yourself. Election Night plays out as a real-time set piece: states report in live, networks make calls, and you sweat every tossup.

Win, and the game doesn't end at the inauguration. Your First 100 Days set the tone — cabinet confirmation battles, a flagship bill, your first crisis — before the full term unfolds with treaties, executive orders, Article V amendments, a Supreme Court that remembers who appointed it, and a live world stage underneath it all.

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Four Reasons This Isn't Just Another Election Sim

The whole career, not just the highlight reel.

You have captured the exact experience I've been trying to find since I was a kid playing on the computer at my grandmother's.

Steam Voter #47139 · 4.6 hrs on record

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Two Ways to Run

On the ballot now, and this August.

Play the browser build today for free, or get the full Steam release, out now.

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Free Demo · Forever

Browser Edition

Playable instantly on itch.io, and staying free for good. New gameplay expansions are headed to the Steam edition instead.

★ 4.6 / 5 HTML5 v2.3
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Steam Edition

The full campaign-to-presidency experience, and where the game's future is headed — Steam Achievements and every expansion after launch.

$9.99 Windows Achievements
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The AI Advisor

Someone in the room, all campaign long.

Your advisor is watching the same board you are. It flags soft states before you lose them, reads the room after a debate, and tells you — bluntly — when a story is about to break.

How the AI actually works →

> analyzing swing state: pennsylvania

> momentum +3.2 following last night's debate

> recommend increasing ad spend, rust belt media markets

> alert — opposition research flags a developing story 

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