What if Trump ran in 1968 (alternate history scenario)
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« on: July 25, 2021, 07:16:56 PM »
What if Donald Trump (born in 1905 or his fathers birthyear in OTL), a former New Deal Democrat who recently switched parties, runs and wins the GOP nomination on a platform of law & order, states' rights in respect to racial issues, and anti-federal government over HUD. I think he'd win almost every Wallace voter (barring a few from Alabama) and a majority of Nixon's voters and win in a landslide, but it's also possible he could be viewed as Goldwater 2.0 and rejected by all but a handful of Southern/Western states, even though Goldwater's endorsement would've been lukewarm at best and he would've been opposed to his candidacy, but quiet about it since he was still viewed as a conservative stalwart at the time.  How do you think he would've done. Discuss with maps.
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« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2021, 07:38:02 PM »
Someone with the same views as Donald Trump would have been unelectable in 1968, so Hubert Humphrey probably wins 374-164, with Arkansas, New Mexico, Nevada, and Colorado being the states I am the least sure about.
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« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2021, 02:13:10 PM »
Easy.
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« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2021, 05:26:49 PM »
Quote from: Alben Barkley on July 26, 2021, 02:13:10 PM
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Is this the same map as IRL with Trump instead of Wallace?
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« Reply #4 on: July 27, 2021, 01:33:43 AM »
Quote from: Alben Barkley on July 26, 2021, 02:13:10 PM
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I think that Trump does a better job of peeling off northern conservatives from Nixon then Wallace could.
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« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2022, 02:15:21 PM »
« Edited: February 04, 2022, 02:30:45 PM by Globalists are RINOs »
I've since realized that having Trump remain as a Dem would make more sense (ignore the faithless elector). Nixon still wins but Trump is able to energize Southerners and blue collar workers, particularly in The Midwest.
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« Reply #6 on: February 05, 2022, 02:45:21 AM »
With my original proposal, Trump loses to Humphrey in a landslide despite LBJ's unpopularity and unlike him running as a Dem, he is not able to fully unite the GOP.
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