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In OTL, due to the issue of slavery and Scott's personal abhorrence of it which led to his defeat in the South, and the perception of his support of slavery which doomed him in the North, he lost (as the Whig Party nominee) in a landslide to Mexican War veteran, New Hampshire native, and Democrat Franklin Pierce.

Can anyone think of a way to make Winfield Scott the second consecutive Mexican War hero (w/ Gen. Zachary Taylor being the first in 1848) to be elected to the Presidency?
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