Lose of FDR Mid 1940

Paul MacQ

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I was talking to some friends today and was at a bit of a loss; to describe the effect if FDR passed away in May or June 1940. (was looking at a turn of bad health not being assassinated)

FDR was a major driving force supporting Britain, What is the rest of the US support like supporting Britain and the likelihood of Lend Lease. Does Henry A. Wallace have the support to pick up the ball and run with it ?.

Also would there be the same drive to alienate the Japanese?

Britain was looking like it was on the ropes. Churchill seemed to be on good terms with FDR. Not sure how well he was seen by such a Left leaning Demarcate like Wallace.

And were the Republican isolationist enough if they got into power to let anything but Cash and Carry happen?

( yes I meamt Loss im the title of thread Sorry I cannot change)
 
Wallace would still win, although the Republicans would probably enjoy a larger swing. Although he was anti-British he was also rabidly anti-Nazi so I'm guessing Britian will still receive a large amount of help with the USSR maybe receiving a bit more than in OTL.
 
Wallace wasn't VP in '40; John Nance Garner was. The GOP nominee in '40 was Wendell Willkie, who was not an isolationist. If it's Willkie against Garner, I'd give the election to Willkie. But it's unlikely to be Garner.
Willkie secured the nomination thanks to his support of Britain and the work of his campaign floor manager, Harold Stassen (who was the keynote at the RNC). I think he still does in this TL - FDR's death and Garner's presidency is only going to amplify concerns about the Nazis, not dampen them.

Garner had turned against Roosevelt's liberalism in the late '30s, and was not really a good candidate. I could see Cordell Hull, FDR's Secretary of State, getting the Democratic nod in '40, perhaps with William Bankhead of Alabama, the Speaker of the House and the second-place vote getter for VP at the DNC in 1940, as his VP. Alternatively, James Farley, FDR's kingmaker, the DNC chair and Postmaster General (a cabinet-level post at that point), and incidentally an Irish Catholic, could've won the nomination, maybe picking Hull as his #2.
 
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