The vice presidency had become the focus of the hottest gossip in Washington. The current VP, Henry Wallace, was rumored to be out of Roosevelt’s favor. Wallace had proven himself so far to the left, Democratic Party officials referred to his supporters as “the lunatic fringe.” The question was: Who could take Wallace’s place? Truman had no intentions of gunning for the job, and neither did America have such intentions for him. According to a Gallup poll in July 1944, only one in fifty Democratic voters thought Truman should be the vice presidential candidate on the 1944 ticket. The great
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What would they say of democrats running for president in 2020
