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In initial design, we wanted to see how we could make primaries play out in game-wise. What we saw immediately is that the different flow of our priority that candidates take in primaries added interesting gameplay.
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For example, in my playthrough of Republican primaries, I wanted to explore a playthrough with the 4 runners that were in the race. Here I started as Nikki Haley and selected Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Doug Burgum as my opponents.
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