WW2, no FDR

What if in 1940 presidential election, FDR decided not to run for a third term, keep Washington's Precidents. I think the election would have most likely have been a Garner/Farley ticket for the Democrats, and a Willkie/Mcnary ticket for the Republicans. Who would win. Back in 1940, the Democrats were worried that no democrat but FDR could possibly win against Wendell Willkie. Would the Republicans win, or would the Democrats win? How would the two different possible outcomes have effected WW2?
 
Huey Long would probably end up running.

Edit- Scratch that, thought Long died right before the 1940 election, he died in 1935.

You'd probably see Garner get the nomination. Possibly Cordell Hull. After Long's assassination there weren't too many powerful figures in the Democratic Party. FDR for better or worse had it wrapped around his finger quite nicely.
 
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I'm going to assume that the OP is going to sidestep the fact that Franklin Roosevelt was deeply concerned about world affairs in 1940, and that was why he decided to run for a third term. Instead I'll throw my vote into the Jack Garner camp, as he was probably the strongest Democratic candidate of that year absent Roosevelt.

If Huey Long was still alive in 1940, I doubt he would have done much damage to the Democratic machine; Share the Wealth doesn't seem like a big vote-grabber during the war crisis. Unless he decided to run on an isolationist platform ala Lindbergh.
 
I wonder about Garner. I have the impression that he was not close to FDR.

Since the 1960s it has been assumed that a VP will be a likely future candidate but if I recall correctly the only VPs to become President since Van Buren (elected 1836) were those who had succeded to office following deaths of Presidents,

I also query how easy itwould be for a Southerner to get on the top of a ticket at that time.

Who were the alternative Democrat?

Also would Wilkie still have run for the Republicans? If he did I think he might have won.
 
Garner wasn't that close to FDR. Hence why Wallace ended up replacing him.

But I mean aside from FDR, who else is really out there?

As for the Republicans, I think Taft may very well have gotten the nomination with FDR out of the picture. I was always under the impression Taft didn't try to hard for the nomination because whoever the Republicans nominated was going to get trounced by Rosevelt anyways.
 
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