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NS Nation Name: Greater Arab State
Character Name: Rebecca Trelawney
Character Gender: Female
Character Age: 52
Character Height: 5’4
Character Weight: 173 lbs
Character Position/Role/Job: Senator for Indiana (2019-Present), Chair of the Republican Study Committee (2015-2017), Representative for Indiana’s 6th Congressional District (2003-2019)
Appearance:
Character State of Origin: Indiana (Born in Hesse, West Germany)
Character State of Residence: Indiana
Character Party Affiliation: Republican (1981-Present)
Main Strengths: Lengthy record of experience, appeals to the religious right and suburban voters, strong loyalty to the party line.
Main Weaknesses: Weak debater, perceived as being rather wonkish, perceived as being ‘establishment’ due to the length of her political career.
Biography: Rebecca Trelawney (née Hirschi) was born on January 30th, 1967 in the Hessian capital of Wiesbaden as the youngest child of 4 in a military family from the city of Muncie, Indiana. Growing up, the young Hirschi developed the beginning of what were to be a lifelong conservative disposition, fostering a strong sense of American exceptionalism and a penchant for personal responsibility and importance of the nuclear family and of family values to American society.
Her education saw Rebecca develop a strongly competitive spirit within her academic life, attempting to outdo her siblings in every way possible to gain the affection of her parents, subsequently leading to Hirschi scoring amongst the highest in her grade academically in addition to serving as Class President during her time at high school. It was also during this period that the young Herschi developed her political identity, joining the Republican Party in the first year of the Reagan administration.
Upon her graduation from high school in 1985, Ms Hirschi studied history at Hanover College, during which she continued the strong academic performance from high school, being noted as a particularly conscientious student with regards to research, even if it to an extent disadvantaged her as a result of the inflexibility of her arguments. It was also during this time that the foundations towards a wider political career were laid by Ms Hirschi, with her being an active member of the both Hanover's College Republicans as well as the Indiana Federalist Society, in which she also interned. Upon the conclusion of her undergraduate study in 1989, Ms Hirschi elected to study for a Juris Doctor at the University of Notre Dame, continuing to be noted for her strongly detailed and researched approach in the trial setting throughout her studies at Notre Dame. It was also during her time at Notre Dame that Hirschi met David Trelawney, with the two developing a close relationship, culminating in the two of them marrying in the summer of 1992.
Upon graduation from Notre Dame, the recent law school graduate and now Mrs Trelawney was hired by the Indiana branch of the relatively recently founded Family Research Council in her home city of Muncie, during which she developed a reputation for her sustained efforts to direct campaigning towards married and suburban women in an attempt to make the socially conservative message of the Family Research Council resonate further within the demographics. Furthermore, Mrs Trelawney also sought to coordinate the group’s campaigning through greater cooperation with the Indiana Republican Party, with the Indiana branch regularly hosting fundraisers and issuing endorsements for Republican candidates.
Soon after, Rebecca Trelawney ran for Indiana’s 6th Congressional District during the 2002 midterms, using the connections made during her tenure at the Family Research Council to emphasise her socially conservative credentials whilst also featuring a primary campaign with a heavy emphasis on winning suburban primary votes, she was able to win a narrow victory of 51% in the Republican primary, going on to be elected to the House with 59% of the vote.
Her tenure in the House saw Congresswoman Trelawney develop a reputation as a solid party woman, regularly voting the party whip, particularly on issues of national security in the early year’s of the War on Terror whilst also developing a reputation as being particularly outspoken on issues of family values in order to galvanise the Republican based and retain the reputation that she had gained as being one of the most socially conservative Republicans in the House.
However, it was only during the 112th Congress, during which Representative Trelawney wrote and introduced to the House floor the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, which sought to make the restrictions to taxpayer funded abortions stipulated by the Hyde Amendment permanent. Although the act passed the House in a vote roughly along partisan lines within the first year of the 112th Congress, it generated significant controversy nationally as a result of backlash regarding language used within the bill laying out exceptions, nevertheless, the backlash amongst the liberal media and the Democratic Party allowed the Congresswoman to develop a small national profile that lasted for a short while.
However, Representative Trelawney's position grew following the 2014 midterms, which saw the Republican party receive a majority in both chambers of Congress, as a result of her election as Chair of the Republican Study Committee, the largest ideological conference in the congressional Republican Party. Her tenure as Chair saw the Congresswoman staunchly criticise the nuclear deal with Iran negotiated by the US and its allies, arguing the the agreement would merely embolden Iran in its foreign policy objectives, particularly with regard to Israel. However, the most notable aspect of Representative Trelawney's tenure as Chair of the Republican Study Committee was the 2016 Republican primaries, emerging as an early and vocal backer of Senator Calder's campaign, for which she actively stumped across Indiana for.
Despite the Congresswoman's efforts however, Indiana voted decisively in favour of Arnold Wolf Sr, subsequently leading to him becoming the presumptive Republican nominee, leading to the Congresswoman's endorsement of him in the name of Republican unity going into the general.
Despite her rather reluctant endorsement however, Trelawney withdrew her endorsement in October 2016, citing the recent sexual assault allegations against Wolf Sr by several Fox News interns as her reason for doing so. Despite this, Arnold Wolf Sr would go on to be elected as the 45th President of the United States.
Following the beginning of the 115th Congress, and subsequently the end of Congresswoman Trelawney's tenure as Chair of the Republican Study Committee, she fervently attempted to gain the favour of the White House by acting as a staunchly advocate of the President's agenda, particularly the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which did much to improve her standing within the administration after her vocal support for its passage, as well as the private backing of then House Majority Leader (Not-McCarthy).
It was during the autumn of 2017 that the Congresswoman announced that she would not be running for another term in the House in 2018, instead electing to run for the Senate seat that was up for election within that year. Running on a largely socially conservative platform whilst emphasising her strong record of experience within the House, Trelawney was able to narrowly win the Republican primary with 39% of the vote, before then going on to win 50.6% of the vote in the general, winning the seat for the Republican Party.
During her tenure, the now Senator Trelawney has remained loyal to the Republican leadership and whip, acting as a fierce advocate for greater action against Iran following the increase in Middle Eastern tensions over the summer. However, now with President Wolf having resigned as President, and the race for who will succeed him as the 2020 Republican nominee intensifies, she has been left considering her options as to which candidate is best suited to advancing the Republican agenda, and who will enable the Republican Party to remain united going into the general.
Other Info: Resides in Muncie, Indiana with her husband of 28 years, David and their 3 children, Presbyterian.
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