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Can you beat history?

Run any American election from 1789 to 2024 as any candidate who ran. Win, and you govern: pick a cabinet, face your term's crises and see where historians rank you.

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Free to play, no sign-up. Support the game on Ko-fi to keep new races coming. 60 presidential elections, 345 Senate, governor and House races and 60 mayoral races.

1948Final

Dewey defeats Truman

Pick an election

Scroll the timeline. The bar shows who really won.

Win it, then govern it

Every victory opens a presidency. Your choices decide what history remembers.

  1. 1
    Run the real campaignThirty decisions from what actually happened, plus debates and speeches.
  2. 2
    Election nightStates fall as polls close. Too close? Fight the recount.
  3. 3
    ★★★★☆
    Form your cabinetFive key posts and the decisions of your first hundred days.
  4. 4
    Pearl Harbor
    Dec. 1941
    Govern through historyReal crises and events arrive on their dates while you whip votes.
  5. 5
    12thof 44 presidents
    See how history ranks youYour place among the real presidents and your approval chart.
  6. 6
    Four more years?
    Run againDefend your record against a challenger your approval invited.

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The presidency

Congress and the governors

City Hall