Roosevelt dies sometime in '41, after being sworn in, but before the Pearl Harbor attack (optimally would be with FDR actually dying at Pearl Harbor, maybe he's on a visit or something, so Wallace has his proverbial 'bloody shirt' to wave around). Wallace gets to make his "A day that will live in infamy" speech, and it will be on his watch that the Nazi and Japanese militaries are defeated.
He will likely run in '44, as the Democratic party can hardly drop its sitting POTUS from the ticket, and I don't see how he could lose, since even doing an across-the-board 5% worse than FDR still earns him a 297-234 victory.
With the New Deal coalition still strong enough to give Truman a victory in '48 despite a massive 3-way split within it, I can easily see Wallace running for re-election and winning.
What does he try, what does he accomplish and what will he fail?
He will likely run in '44, as the Democratic party can hardly drop its sitting POTUS from the ticket, and I don't see how he could lose, since even doing an across-the-board 5% worse than FDR still earns him a 297-234 victory.
With the New Deal coalition still strong enough to give Truman a victory in '48 despite a massive 3-way split within it, I can easily see Wallace running for re-election and winning.
What does he try, what does he accomplish and what will he fail?