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During the 1948 Presidential Election there were two major front runners for the Republican nomination. Harold Stassen and Thomas Dewey. Dewey only managed to take a lead over Stassen after the Dewey-Stassen Debate about the legality of the American Communist Party in which Dewey definitively won. This was the first audio recorded presidential debate in US history. What if this debate never happened or if Stassen Won? Do we see Stassen v Truman 1948? A President Stassen? Or still a Truman Victory? Or do we see Dewey still winning the nomination?
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