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Question about Season 1. Why was he upset at his wife for sabotaging Russo's gevernor nomination?

posted 7 years ago by Geff (453)
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Wife colludes with oil company to get the oil money so she doesn't convince 2 people to vote for Russo.

Underwood did not account for this happening and is very upset with his wife after he finds out this occurrence from reporter friend.

But, it is later found out that he didn't want Russo to win all along. Now he suddenly wants Russo out of the picture so that current Vice President becomes Governor of Pennsylvania.

If this was Underwood's plan all along, why was he so upset when his wife betrayed him? He couldn't have predicted the betrayal.

What was his original plan? If his wife hadn't betrayed him, wouldn't Russo have won the governor election?

[–] wilson24 (62) 6 years ago

Because at that point, there was still too much time left in the race for the Democrats to go with someone besides the Vice President once Russo screwed up. Frank wanted to wait longer so when Peter dropped out, there would be no time for a new candidate, and the President would be so desperate to win he'd go with the VP, who people already knew and loved.

[–] kjc219 (10) 5 years ago

Yeah like the other poster said when the bill was being voted on, there was still enough time for someone else to join the race that wasn't the vice president. That would have ruined everything.