Underwood leaking this information to journalist Zoe Barnes who published it, and the resulting media storm forced Kern's nomination to be withdrawn.ĭue to Durant being a key ally of Underwood's from their time in Congress and as she agreed to his plan of replacing Walker, Underwood again leaked information to Barnes that Durant was being considered as the new nominee.

The information uncovered concerned Kern being the editor of a college newspaper that ran an editorial strongly condemning Israel. The first stage of this involved derailing Kern's nomination as revenge, namely by having Congressman Peter Russo and his own Chief of Staff, Doug Stamper uncover damaging information about Kern. As a result, Underwood decided to enact revenge on Walker and devised a plot to take the Presidency for himself. Initially, President-elect Walker nominated Senator Michael Kern as Secretary of State, after deciding not to nominate Underwood, who had been promised the post.

However, Walker would win the nomination and later, the Presidency. During the 2012 presidential election, she actively opposed then Colorado Governor Garrett Walker in the Democratic primaries. In Congress, she became a friend of Margaret Tilden, the owner of the Washington Herald. Senator from Louisiana who had served in her position for some years as of 2013, with experience on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and as an ally of House Majority Whip Frank Underwood.

The house of the dead 5 wiki