More election trivia: who did FDR beat this date in 1940 to earn a 3rd term
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And more on Wilkie...
He was a Democrat originally, but knew FDR would get the Democratic nomination, so he flipped to the Republicans in 1939. His policies towards US involvement in WW2 were actually very similar to FDR's. They ran on very similar platforms as far as that goes.
After he lost the election, he served in an unofficial role as Roosevelt's informal representative to the British in London.
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Yeah, crazy...
Both presidential candidates in the 1940 election were dead by the spring of 1945.
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Wouldn’t surprise me to see Trump live well into his 90. He’s not a drinker or a smoker.
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