stassen and dewey ran against each other. dewey came out top in wisconsin, stassen won the big news there was that macarthur did not do and kind of fell out of the picture picture and decided to challenge taft in ohio and lost which did not help his cause, but also, taft did not win as decisively as thought he should. so it kind of hurt them both. and then there was a big, big primary in oregon that really came down to and stassen. qassam into it as the front runner in the race. at that point, it was the last really major contested primary and there was a radio debate, a nationally broadcast radio debate between dewey and staff then and the sole subject was whether the communist party should be banned. stassen continued to say yes, dewey said no. he was the anti-communist as they came, but he he thought it would be doing violence to the constitution to to to ban communist party. he seemed to come out ahead in the in the debate. he won oregon. and so he went into the convention with with some momentum. well, here is a portion

stassen and dewey ran against each other. dewey came out top in wisconsin, stassen won the big news there was that macarthur did not do and kind of fell out of the picture picture and decided to challenge taft in ohio and lost which did not help his cause, but also, taft did not win as decisively as thought he should. so it kind of hurt them both. and then there was a big, big primary in oregon that really came down to and stassen. qassam into it as the front runner in the race. at that point, it was the last really major contested primary and there was a radio debate, a nationally broadcast radio debate between dewey and staff then and the sole subject was whether the communist party should be banned. stassen continued to say yes, dewey said no. he was the anti-communist as they came, but he he thought it would be doing violence to the constitution to to to ban communist party. he seemed to come out ahead in the in the debate. he won oregon. and so he went into the convention with with some momentum. well, here is a portion