Following a crowded field in the Republican Party during the beginning of election season, it was reported that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be automatically elected to the presidency due to an error in the GOP’s nomination process.

“The error occurred when, of the rumored 15 or 20 Republican candidates, none officially declared they were running for president,” said political analyst James Carville. “There were a lot of tentative ‘I-am-not-running-for-president-but-if-I-WERE-running-for-president-hypothetically-what-would-you-think?’ committees put in place by candidates like Donald Trump and Jeb Bush, but no one ever actually did anything.”

DNC spokesman Jesse Washman took a closer look at what hurt the Republican candidates.

“Well, Ben Carson said he still would have run, but he was busy selling books when the polling closed. Former Governor Rick Perry was subject to a simple clerical error when she submitted to run under the name ‘Reepublickin Party’ and was dropped from the process. Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz failed to register because they realized people elected them to do a job and had to begrudgingly return to Washington. Bobby Jindal and Carly Fiorina scared the bejesus out of the RNC chairman when they showed up with actual paperwork to run for president and were immediately turned away.”

“The nation’s Republicans have been so frustrated with the lack of a popular Republican personality to put their support behind,”  Carville added.

“With such a large number of candidates that simply cannot be taken seriously, many voters have even left the party and accepted that Clinton’s glaring concessions to conservatives are going to have to be enough for the next four years.”

Editor’s note: This article is a reworking of Mitch McCann’s 2012 article, which can be found here.