[5], At the July 1940 Democratic Convention in Chicago, Roosevelt easily swept aside challenges from Farley and John Nance Garner, his Vice-President.

The German Army's rapid Blitzkrieg campaign into France in May 1940 shook American public opinion, even as Taft was telling a Kansas audience that America needed to concentrate on domestic issues to prevent Roosevelt from using the war crisis to extend socialism at home. Willkie did get over six million more votes than the Republican nominee in 1936, Alf Landon, and he ran strong in rural areas in the American Midwest, taking over 57% of the farm vote. Although Willkie fared better than the previous two Republican presidential candidates, Roosevelt crushed Willkie in the electoral college and won the popular vote by ten points. El diseño de Getty Images es una marca comercial de Getty Images. Both Dewey and Vandenberg also continued to oppose any aid to the United Kingdom that might lead to war with Nazi Germany. Taft was the leader of the conservative, isolationist wing of the Republican Party, and his main strength was in his native Midwestern United States and parts of the Southern United States. His support of giving all aid to the British "short of declaring war" won him the support of many Republicans on the East Coast of the United States, who disagreed with their party's isolationist leaders in Congress.

As a result of Willkie's gains, Roosevelt became the second of only three presidents in United States history to win re-election with a lower percentage of both the electoral vote and the popular vote than in the prior election, preceded by James Madison in 1812 and followed by Barack Obama in 2012. Demasiadas imágenes seleccionadas.

Election Day is November 3, 2020. Dewey sera à nouveau le candidat républicain à la présidence en 1948, défiant le président Truman (qui avait assumé cette fonction à la mort de FDR), et perdra à nouveau, bien que par des marges de vote populaire et électoral un peu plus faibles. El contrato Premium Access de tu equipo caduca pronto. [12] Having given little thought to whom he would select as his vice-presidential nominee, Willkie left the decision to convention chairman and Massachusetts Representative Joseph Martin, the House Minority Leader, who suggested Senate Minority Leader Charles L. McNary from Oregon. Margin of victory less than 1% (19 electoral votes): Margin of victory less than 5% (192 electoral votes): Margin of victory between 5% and 10% (83 electoral votes): The British government engaged covert intelligence operations to support Roosevelt, including the planting of false news stories, wiretaps, "October surprises", and other intelligence activities. LA POESIE AMERICAINE MODERNISTE 1910-1940.. 1948. R240089808. [18], Roosevelt led in all pre-election opinion polls by various margins. The IBM strategic repository for digital assets such as images and videos is located at dam.ibm.com. Porter, Kirk H. and Donald Bruce Johnson, eds. [6], In the months leading up to the opening of the 1940 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Republican Party was deeply divided between the party's isolationists, who wanted to stay out of World War II at all costs, and the party's interventionists, who felt that the United Kingdom needed to be given all aid short of war to prevent Nazi Germany from conquering all of Europe. This accusation did cut into Roosevelt's support. La question importante était de savoir quel dirigeant, Roosevelt ou Dewey, devait être choisi pour les jours critiques de rétablissement de la paix et de reconstruction après la fin de la guerre. La vidéo qui affole les internautes. Le point culminant de la campagne a été le discours prononcé par Roosevelt lors d'une réunion de dirigeants syndicaux, à la radio nationale, dans lequel il a ridiculisé les affirmations des républicains selon lesquelles son administration était corrompue et gaspillait l'argent des impôts. The two-term tradition, although not yet enshrined in the Constitution, had been established by George Washington when he refused to run for a third term in 1796; other former presidents, such as Ulysses S. Grant in 1880 and Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 had made serious attempts to run for a third term, but the former failed to be nominated, while the latter, forced to run on a third-party ticket, lost to Woodrow Wilson due to the split in the Republican vote.

Andrew Jackson en 1832 et Grover Cleveland en 1892 avaient reçu plus de votes électoraux mais moins de votes populaires, tandis que Woodrow Wilson en 1916 avait reçu plus de votes populaires mais moins de votes électoraux.