Awakening the Daily Intelligence System

Chapter 440: 161, Lin Mo and the future Duke officially meet!_2

He is Bighu Alvin, the secretary of Johnson Foster and a core member of his campaign team.

Every candidate has their own campaign team, and the team members are mostly retired officials with extensive experience in politics.

They understand America, they understand the people of this nation.

Unfortunately,

Johnson Foster has no governing experience, which means that even if he is willing to spend a large sum of money, no current officials or retired officials would help him.

The reason is simple,

None of the officials are clean when they serve, holding leverage over each other, so rashly helping a newcomer in the political arena is akin to seeking one’s own downfall.

Johnson Foster, with his back to him, said emotionlessly, “Go ahead, I’m mentally prepared.”

Alvin flipped open the document in his hand and said with gravity, “At present, the highest support within the Liberal Party is for Ron DeSantis.”

Ron DeSantis, the former Governor of Florida and a veteran of the Liberal Party, has been the primary competition target of the party since he announced his candidacy.

The process for Duke elections goes like this.

The Liberal Party and the Conservative Party first hold internal elections, then they each select a candidate to compete in the official Duke elections.

Those are the broad rules, but there are some insider dealings as well.

For instance, this time, in the Liberal Party, there are 19 people participating in the election, and each person has their own supporters.

So, when someone is eliminated, they will take their supporters and transfer their entire voter base to other competing members within the party.

Thus ensuring that their faction’s candidate gains more and more votes, making it easier to come out on top.

This can no longer be considered an unwritten rule; it’s practically common knowledge.

The bulk of the votes from the 14 candidates already eliminated have been cast in favor of former Governor Ron DeSantis, effectively making his vote bank several times larger than the others.

Plus, those who are eliminated later, in order not to offend Ron DeSantis, will still cast their votes for him.

How can this be played?

It’s simply unplayable!

It is because of these insider dealings that even Johnson Foster, despite being an American tycoon, finds it extremely difficult to enter this circle.

Alvin continued, “Currently, ranking second is Nikki Haley.”

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This former ambassador holds resources not inferior to that of the former Florida Governor.

And behind her stands the Morgan Consortium, which allows her the freedom to leverage the consortium’s accumulated connections to gain votes in the competition.

As things stand, the outcome of the Liberal Party’s election will only be between these two candidates.

Just as the secretary was about to say the third person’s name, Johnson Foster interrupted him, frowning and asking, “Alvin, I don’t want to hear this anymore. Please tell me, have they found the person who’s been secretly helping me?”

His road to competition these past two years can be described as extremely smooth.

At first, no one thought highly of him, believing that Johnson Foster would be the first contender to be eliminated.

Even the well-known media mocked him, calling him a delusional white pig contaminating the peak of power.

Public support for him was also very low; even with his financial maneuvers, it was virtually impossible for him to get this far, surprisingly becoming the number six contender within the party.

However…

He just happened to be that lucky,

Every time Johnson Foster was on the verge of elimination, his competitors would encounter all sorts of unexpected events.

Some voluntarily withdrew, some, confident in eliminating him, would suddenly get engulfed in a variety of scandals.

Once or twice it might be understandable, but when such incidents repeatedly happen three or four times, it’s definitely not normal.

There must be a mastermind behind it.

Although Johnson Foster didn’t understand why the person was helping him, he was indeed continuously attempting to find the individual.

Alvin shook his head and said, “I’m sorry, Mr. President, I haven’t been able to get in touch with them yet. Perhaps they don’t even intend to reveal themselves.”

As the main force of the campaign team, he was certainly aware of the existence of the mysterious person.

Johnson Foster scratched his somewhat messy hair and said helplessly, “Then do you think he will still help me this time?”

As soon as he finished speaking, he shook his head helplessly, a tinge of despondency in his voice, “With the situation like this, I’m afraid even if he wants to help, he might be unable to.”

“Heh, it’s not that I haven’t been trying, but the heavens of America are just too dark,” he lamented.

“I genuinely want to contribute to America, to make this country great again. Why can’t the people just give me that chance?”

“They’ve been reaping the benefits for so many years, shouldn’t it be time for a change?”

Is it dark?

Indeed it is very dark.

It appears to be free, but in reality, power is still transmitted through lineage, and outsiders dreaming of getting a piece is pure fantasy.

Johnson Foster could be said to have held sway in the business world, having even built his tower next to that palace watched by the entire world.

But what use was it?

Without the help of the mysterious benefactor, he would have probably been eliminated a year ago.

Alvin comforted him, “President, I think that since things haven’t completely come to an end yet, there might still be changes that occur.”

“And even if you can’t participate in the upcoming election, you can already consider it a victory.”

“After all, in the two-hundred-year history, there hasn’t been anyone without any governing experience who has made it as far as you have today.”

“I think you still need to prepare for the televised debate competition tomorrow night at 8 PM. That will be your last chance to campaign.”

Johnson Foster nodded and said in a deep voice, “May God bless us, and may the people of America awaken sooner and realize that no one understands America more than I do, only I can make it great again!”

“I love my country, I love my people.”

….

About 3 kilometers away from Johnson Tower, in the top-floor suite of a luxury hotel.

Lin Mo was sitting on a chair, calmly listening to his subordinate’s report on Johnson Foster’s competition.

Yes,

he was the man standing behind Johnson Foster.

It was with Lin Mo’s help that Johnson Foster could leap from a politically inexperienced nobody to being among the top six contenders today.

Though the Abyss Organization had vanished in the past two years, Lin Mo was still receiving ten intelligence reports every day without decline.

Currently, he had amassed enough dirt on other competitors to send Johnson Foster straight to the Duke’s seat.

After listening to his subordinate’s report, Lin Mo asked, “So what you mean is, even with enough dirt, we can’t touch the two top-ranking people in the Liberal Party.”

“That’s how it looks right now.” The subordinate answered honestly, “Those two have a strong foundation, external support, control of mainstream media, and many consortiums. It’s not nearly enough to beat them with just dirt.”

“Right now, even if all their voters abandoned them, the support of others within the party is enough to win over Johnson Foster.”

The situation was… a bit troublesome.

But thankfully, Lin Mo had already anticipated such a scenario and he was not unprepared.

Just as he did in Grand Xia, he was accustomed to considering all kinds of risks and making ample preparations in advance.

And now the timing was perfect, it was time for him, the backstage manipulator, to take a turn in the spotlight.

Otherwise, even if Johnson Foster won, he wouldn’t know how much effort Lin Mo had put in from the shadows.

All that previous work would have been for nothing.

Lin Mo inquired, “When is the next speech?”

The subordinate answered, “Tomorrow night at 8 PM, at the Washington D.C. television station. All six candidates will be present.”

“Good.” Lin Mo nodded slightly and said in a serious tone, “Get me a ticket to the venue. I want to go to the station and witness our future Duke’s shining moment.”

“Yes, I’ll get on it right away.” The subordinate bowed slightly and left the office.

Hum… hum hum…

As soon as he left, Lin Mo’s phone began to ring.