List of Fictional United States Presidential Candidates - R

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Randee of the Redwoods

  • Candidate in: Various MTV TV commercials (1987–90).
  • Played by: Jim Turner.
  • Party: Unknown (third party).

Robert Redford

  • Candidate in Watchmen (graphic novel)
  • Party: most likely Democratic Party, as he was running against Richard Nixon
  • Announced candidacy in the 1988 election at the end of the fictional story, leading a newspaper editor to proclaim, "This is still America God damnit! Who wants a cowboy actor in the White House?", a thinly-veiled jab at then president Ronald Reagan

Robert Ritchie

  • Candidate in The West Wing (television series)
  • Played by James Brolin
  • Ritchie attended the University of Florida and is married to Janet Ritchie. Ritchie was the Governor of Florida when he ran against incumbent president Josiah Bartlet in the 2002 presidential election. Ritchie supported oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve in Alaska and opposed affirmative action.
  • President Bartlet called Governor Ritchie a ".22 caliber mind in a .357 world." In the general election, President Bartlet defeated Governor Ritchie and running mate Jeff Heston by 11 million popular votes in a landslide.
  • Ritchie was based on President George W. Bush.
  • Party: Republican Party

Barbara "Barbie" Millicent Roberts

  • Candidate in: Mattel press release in the U.S. presidential election, 2004
  • Played by Herself.
  • Party: Party of Girls (third party)

Robert "Bob" Rumson

  • Candidate in: The American President
  • Senator from Kansas and Senate Minority Leader
  • Says nothing about issues, only spews insults about widowed President Sheperd and his girlfriend Sydney Ellen Wade.
  • Falsely accuses Wade of trading sexual favors for votes while lobbying in the Virginia State Legislature(clearly a lie since he refuses to name his 'several' sources).
  • Ends every speech with "My name is Bob Rumson, and I'm running for President!". Those words are later rammed down his throat when the incumbent ends a speech(disgracing Rumson's politics) by declaring, "My name's Andrew Sheperd and I AM THE PRESIDENT!"
  • Played by: Richard Dreyfuss
  • Party: Republican

Robert "Bingo Bob" Russell

  • Candidate in: The West Wing
  • Home State: Colorado
  • Party: Democrat
  • Opposed Flag-burning and co-sponsored any bill that came up in congress banning it.
  • Russell was the Vice President under President Josiah Bartlet, however, he was not elected to that office, he was nominated under 25th amendment after previous VP John Hoynes resigned because of a sex scandal. Bartlet was forced to choose him by a Republican Congress, he initially wanted his secretary of state to be VP.
  • Before becoming VP, he was a five term congressman from Colorado.
  • Became the front-runner for Democratic nomination for president after the expected front-runner, Governor Eric Baker of Pennsylvania announced he was not running.
  • Russell was very confident that he would win the nomination and the presidency. However, his opponents believed that if he won the nomination then the Republican nominee, Arnold Vinick, would win all fifty states in the electoral college.
  • White House Chief of Staff, CJ Cregg, openly said that the reason that the Republicans made Bartlet choose Russell as VP was because he would almost definitely win the Democratic nomination but did not have a chance in the General election.
  • Lost the Democratic nomination for president to Texas Congressman Matt Santos.

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