United States presidential election, 2048 (Owen's version)

The United States presidential election of 2048, to be held on November 3, 2048, will be the 65th quadrennial presidential election. The Republican ticket of U.S. Senator from Virginia Saira Blair and South Carolina congressman John R. Powell defeated the Democratic ticket of former House Speaker Jewell Jones and California Governor Haley Schuyler. Blair was elected the first female Republican president and second overall, and Powell became the first Latino to be elected vice president.

Voters will select presidential electors who in turn will elect a new president andvice president through the Electoral College. The term limits established in the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution prevents the incumbent, President Owen W. Sanger, from running for a third term.

The series of presidential primary elections and caucuses are scheduled to take place between January and June 2048. This nominating process is also an indirect election, where voters cast ballots for a slate of delegates to a political party's nominating convention, who then in turn elect their party's presidential nominee. U.S. Senator of West Virginia Saira Blair became the Republican Party's presidential nominee after defeating eventual running mate John Powell and Jason Ward. Former House Speaker Jewell Jones became the Democratic Party's presidential nominee after upsetting Vice President Jon Ossoff in a hotly contested primary season. Kyle Loughner, former Secretary of Labor under President DeSantis, ran as a centrist Independent candidate to appeal to disenfranchised Democratic and Republican voters following Blair and Jones' respective nominations to protest their far left and far right positions. This election thus is the first to feature both major parties having a gender neutral ticket.

Blair won a slim victory over Jones in both the popular vote and the electoral college. Blair shifted nearly every state in the union more Republican than 2044, with the exception of Jones' home state of Michigan.

Close races
States where the margin of victory was under 1%: States/districts where the margin of victory was between 1% and 5%: States where the margin of victory was between 5% and 10%:
 * 1) New Hampshire, 0.41% (won by Saira Blair)
 * 2) Maine, 0.56% (won by Saira Blair)
 * 3) North Carolina, 0.60% (won by Saira Blair)
 * 1) Arizona, 1.01% (won by Saira Blair)
 * 2) Delaware, 1.45% (won by Saira Blair)
 * 3) Alaska, 2.07% (won by Saira Blair)
 * 4) South Carolina, 2.79% (won by Saira Blair)
 * 5) Puerto Rico, 4.03% (won by Saira Blair)
 * 1) Illinois, 5.07% (won by Saira Blair)
 * 2) Michigan, 5.10% (won by Saira Blair)
 * 3) Georgia, 7.00% (won by Jewell Jones)
 * 4) Florida, 7.77% (won by Jewell Jones)
 * 5) Maine's 2nd congressional district, 8.64% (won by Saira Blair)
 * 6) Texas, 8.66% (won by Jewell Jones)