Jack is a reporter for the newspaper, and the editor-in-chief sent him to the small town of Kanoma to interview Willie Stark, who was running for the election. Willie wants to run for the treasurer of Canoma Town, and the residents of the town think he is a man of integrity. After Jack arrived in the town, he happened to meet Willie to give a speech to everyone. Willie criticized the town officials for fraudulent practices and refused to allocate funds to repair the school building. As a result, they were taken away by the town police. Jack was also taken away from the camera during the filming. Through contact with Willie, Jack got to know him a little bit and wrote an influential article to help Willie campaign, but in the end Willie still lost the campaign. Jack's hometown, Burton Ferry, is not far from the small town of Canoma, so Jack stopped by to go home to visit his family. Jack had a conflict with his stepfather, but his girlfriend Annie understood him very well and encouraged him to do a big business. After losing the election, Wiley began to study law by himself and successfully opened Wiley Law Firm. The town’s school collapsed due to quality problems, killing some students. Those residents who did not vote for Willie regretted it, and Willie's prestige was further improved.
Harrison and Maddie Murphy run for governor. In order to disperse McGrady's votes, Harrison approached Willie to run for governor. Willie felt very angry when he learned that he was being used. He started to fight back with Jack's encouragement and got the support of most people in the village. But because of his low votes in the city, he lost another election campaign. After two defeats in elections, Willie learned a lot of political skills. In the following years, Willie and various figures reached a secret agreement to let them help him campaign. Wiley gave many promises to voters, and therefore won the support of ordinary citizens. Jack accompanies Willie to Anne’s house and persuades Jaki Sparton to become attorney general after Willie’s successful campaign. Jiaqi strongly supported Willie, while Annie admired Willie very much and began a secret relationship with him.
In the election for governor four years later, Willie was successfully elected. After Willie was elected, he began a series of projects such as building a hospital, repairing schools, repairing roads, and so on. As a result, he won the support of the citizens. However, Willie is no longer the one who dedicated himself to serving the citizens. In order to pursue greater power, he became a sinister and cunning political careerist, and gradually began to engage in darker activities. In order to build his own political kingdom, he used despicable means to operate in the dark. Jaki resigned as Minister of Justice after seeing Willie's true face. However, Annie told Willie about some of the wrong things that Jiaqi had done when he was young. So Willie asked Jack to go and investigate secretly. As Willie did a lot of excessive things, the council began the impeachment proceedings against him. In order to keep the governor's throne, Willie began to gather votes everywhere. Because Jaki Spotton has the key votes, Willie threatens Jaki with something wrong in his youth. After that, Jiaqi chose to commit suicide. Annie and her brother Adam Spoton were very sad and disappointed. After witnessing Willie's various behaviors, Jack decided to expose his true colors. Wiley launched a mass demonstration to threaten the parliament and managed to keep the governor's seat. Later, Willie was killed by Adam Spoton, who came for revenge
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