Chris Travers

Chris Travers is a senator from Hawaii who apparently participated in a beauty pageant and a candidate for the Presidency of Earth in the 3012 election. His campaign manager is Leela.

Production
Chris Travers was first seen in a character design released by Countdown to Futurama on 14 May 2012. On the next day, Countdown to Futurama released a video featuring him during a political debate and Comedy Central released a podcast revealing that he was the centrepiece of "Decision 3012", that he was from Hawaii and that he had no "Earth certificate".

Trivia

 * Travers is a reference to U.S. president Barack Obama - in that he is a senator from Hawaii and there are {w|Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories|conspiracy theories about his Earth certificate}}.