Tyler Birch was a US Senator from Louisiana (D) from 2005 to 2019. In 2020, he ran for President of the United States against US Republican Party challenger Theresa Stevens. Birch won the election with 310 electoral votes.
Biography[]
Tyler Birch was born in New Orleans, Louisiana to a family of Southern Baptist African-Americans, and he was raised in a very liberal family. Birch's parents lived in the segregated American South, and Birch was born during a period of extreme racism in the South. He became a lawyer before becoming a district attorney in New Orleans and a member of the US Democratic Party, and he was elected to the US House of Representatives during the 1990s. In 2005, he won the senatorial election to become a Senator from Louisiana, and he advocated organized labor, gun control, voter rights, international cooperation, and other major liberal causes. With James E. Hill as his running mate, Birch campaigned extensively, gaining the support of the large states of New York, California, Texas, and Florida; he managed to turn the conservative American South into a support base for the Democrats. He defeated Theresa Stevens with 310 electoral votes in the end, and he was elected President of the United States.