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I know there are plenty of "No Watergate" threads on this forum, but I'm curious what everyone thinks about this particular scenario.

If Carter never ran for the nomination, what other moderate could have filled the void and beat Ford (or Connally or Agnew, whoever), then lost to Reagan in '80? This is for a TL I'm working on with some very specific circumstances.

Also, for this scenario I'm keeping stagflation, Iran, and Afghanistan as issues in the 1980 campaign. I'm curious who of the '76 field besides Carter was the keenest on deregulating & governing from the center, even though I'm opposed to both of those things.

Thoughts?
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