WI: FDR dies between July and October 1940?

Let's suppose Roosevelt's polio worsens to the point that he dies at some point between the DNC and the 1940 election. In this scenario, Willkie's locked in for the GOP, but who replaces FDR? The Dixiecrats would outright refuse Wallace's nomination in his place, and I imagine a lot of Northern Democrats would be sceptical of his potential elevation beyond the VP slot. How does the 1940 election go without FDR, and who wins? What does this mean for the New Deal and the USA's impending entry into the war? If Willkie wins, does he declare war on Germany immediately, or does he wait like FDR did IOTL? How does US politics change without an explicit two-term limit on the Presidency in place?
 
Let's suppose Roosevelt's polio worsens to the point that he dies at some point between the DNC and the 1940 election. In this scenario, Willkie's locked in for the GOP, but who replaces FDR? The Dixiecrats would outright refuse Wallace's nomination in his place, and I imagine a lot of Northern Democrats would be sceptical of his potential elevation beyond the VP slot. How does the 1940 election go without FDR, and who wins? What does this mean for the New Deal and the USA's impending entry into the war? If Willkie wins, does he declare war on Germany immediately, or does he wait like FDR did IOTL? How does US politics change without an explicit two-term limit on the Presidency in place?

The convention probably rallies behind President Garner, who rides the sympathy vote to victory over Willkie.
 
The DNC would choose the candidate. My guess is that they would prefer Cordell Hull, both Garner and especially Wallace being too controversial for their taste. But Hull might not agree to run (he had health concerns) and anyway Garner is after all now the incumbent and it would be hard for the party to repudiate him. I would expect Garner to move a bit to the left to try to reassure skeptical New Dealers (he knows he will have the support of conservative Democrats anyway).
 
... What does this mean for the New Deal...

The New Dealers were walking dead by this point. Many of the doctrines or programs would carry on as per OTL, but the men were no longer a discrete movement & their political traction declining.

and the USA's impending entry into the war? If Willkie wins, does he declare war on Germany immediately, or does he wait like FDR did IOTL? ...

President Wilkie can't declare war, thats Congresses job. It says so in the Constitution. The emergency war powers acts & their extension were about as far as Congress was prepared to go in 1940-41. Japanese & German actions rendered Congress & the Constitution irrelevant in December 1941. The US was at war with both by 10 December without any action by the US government.

The core question or PoD is how the new President reacts to the Japanese occupation of French Indochina? Does he persuade Congress to pass something like the Embargo Acts? Give Japan a pass? Or some other course? The Embargo Acts and subsequent failed negotiations were what brought Japan to war with the US, Britain, ect... let Japan slide on the FIC occupation and a Pacific war is delayed or waived away entirely.
 
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