FDR's Plane crashes

Apparently when Roosevelt found out he had recieved the presidential nomination in 1932, he travelled by plane to accept it in person.

Air travel was alot more risky back then, so say the plane crashes in a field somewhere and FDR is killed.

Who gets the nomination now?

Will they win?

What happens to the USA without FDR's New Deal?
 
Who gets the nomination now?

The compromise candidate of the other "factions" fighting FDR was Newton Baker of Ohio, former Secretary of War under Wilson, and a thoroughly boring man.

Will they win?

Yes, I don't think Hoover can really win.

What happens to the USA without FDR's New Deal?

Baker gets sent packing after one term of Wilsonian blithering, and a Republican tries to bring the US out of depression. Less government in the long run, most likely, but it is too hard to say.
 
Said Republican would probably be Alf. Landon, the choice of the Republicans for surviving the Democratic Avalanche of 1932. The decision would probably remain the same ITL, it's just that there is no real New Deal to overturn. Landon, however, would almost certainly be isolationist--perhaps there would be No action taken against Japan.

By 1940, the USA is probably not passing Lend-Lease, and bitter memories of WWI means that the nation is going to be unwilling to put its own ships at risk. Winston Churchill is going to plead to Landon for anything he can get, but there is little he can do if the USA is hell-bent to avoid war.
 
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