I've posted about this hardly 24 hours ago and concur: Bitcoin is a project built on libertarian ideas, so it really doesn't matter what North Korea, Iran, or the US or whatever national bank are doing. This coin was invented to survive independently from whatever "establishment", "government" or "powers" might be in charge now or in the future.
But sure, I can imagine these things might have an influence on the price, because many investors (and probably 90% of this forum's community) couldn't care less about the idea behind this project, but only care about its price going "to the moon". Therefore many of them still think in a classical way of investing fiat money in stock exchanges etc, thus buying or dumping depending on what they've heard or read on some news website.
But despite that government does have an influence over the price if bitcoins , the number of people that would be using it for the long term , since they can very easily ban bitcoins and which would not only decrease the market value but it would also make it harder for people to trade and even own.
Just how the Indian government banned bitcoins before and then lifted the ban , then again thinking of banning this , many governmental bodies are causing problems for the people. They usually cannot access their bank accounts if they are using bitcoins trading services and wallets.
Thus I do believe that government and the elections definitely have an influence over bitcoins , if the person who will win the elections is a pro Bitcoiner it would not only be beneficial for the people but as a whole help the crypto to grow.
So elections might help us.
They definitely cannot control the cryptocurrencies but they can limit the number of people using it.