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David Tenner will eruditely show how the party leadership just was not having Wallace making his retention implausible, but let's go with this. FDR is insistent and enough top delegates, Party leaders go along, and the Dem ticket for 1944 is FDR-Wallace.

Does this give Dewey a real chance to win the general election? Or not?

Plenty of What-ifs on a President Wallace have been made, usually to demonstrate the calamity that would come from nonresistance to the Soviets. And that's all interesting.

But I think a Dewey win in 1944, and thus Republican ownership of the whole peacemaking process, is interesting in its own right.
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