new york republican governor thomas dewey. thanks for joining us for our american history tv series, historic presidential elections. during this election season, we're looking at past presidential races. and this week, it's the election of 1948. our guest is andrew busch universe city of tennessee, civics professor, associate director of the institute, american civics at the university of tennessee and the author of this book, truman's triumphs the 1948 election and the making of postwar america. here are the electn results from 1948. president truman. got 49.5% of the vote, 24 million votes with hundred and three electoral votes. he won 28 states. thomas dewey. 45.1% of the vote. 22 million votes. 189 electoral votes. he won 16 states. there were other candidates in the race. we'll talk about them in a minute. but first of all, professor bush, was it a political shock that harry truman got elected? it was a political shock to pretty much. but harry truman. what's interesting is that in january of 1948, he actually a slight l

new york republican governor thomas dewey. thanks for joining us for our american history tv series, historic presidential elections. during this election season, we're looking at past presidential races. and this week, it's the election of 1948. our guest is andrew busch universe city of tennessee, civics professor, associate director of the institute, american civics at the university of tennessee and the author of this book, truman's triumphs the 1948 election and the making of postwar america. here are the election results from 1948. president truman. got 49.5% of the vote, 24 million votes with hundred and three electoral votes. he won 28 states. thomas dewey. 45.1% of the vote. 22 million votes. 189 electoral votes. he won 16 states. there were other candidates in the race. we'll talk about them in a minute. but first of all, professor bush, was it a political shock that harry truman got elected? it was a political shock to pretty much. but harry truman. what's interesting is that in january of 1948, he actually a slight

platform among the presidential contenders, as did harold stassen and robert taft campaigned for thomas dewey in the general or i believe stassen did a bit. taft wasn't really asked to. in fact. dewey made an important campaign swing through ohio in the late in late 1948 and october of 1948. and did not ask have to be with him, which was a bit of a snub for the, you know, senator from from ohio. so he did not play a major role. but that was it's not totally clear how much of that was his decision, but clearly at least some of it was dewey's preference. professor bush, is it fair to say that thomas dewey had an easier path to the nomination than harry truman did on the democratic side. you know, i don't i don't think i would say that actually because truman didn't really have significant opponent in the primary. he had these portions of his party that were flaking off and running as third parties. but the nomination itself wound up being not not as difficult as it might have been. you know, if some of those folks who had hung around the. the the problem that he had or the potential problem tha

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thomas dewey was in favor of those things. the real fight over containment among republicans came and the republican primary, not in the general election. but harry wallace was one of the third party candidates was really focus on foreign policy. he was running and basically because he disagreed and was highly critical of it. he was trying to hurt truman and foreign policy it was something they talked about but is certainly on a lot of people's mind. there were issues in the economy as always. but we were out of the depression. a lot of peopleon were wondering how long that would last. whether we would go back into the depression. we were grappling with inflation for the first time in 25 years as well as all of the issues around demobilization, 50 million servicemen at the end of the war. how do you get them jobs, how to get them housing and things like that. those were some of the issues. civil rights was a big issue for truman. it's something he emphasized earlier in the year. as well as some presidential action. and he talk

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considered a major upset, democratic president harry truman defeated repuican new york governor thomas dewey, keeping the white house for four more years. tch historic presidenal election saturday at 7:00 p.m. eastern, american history tv on c-span two. >> next, a discussion previewing the 2024-2025 supreme court including cases on transgenderism, pornography, e-cigarettes and regulations on ghost guns. the event hosted by the federalist society was interrupted briefly by an emergency alarm. it's about one hour 20 minutes. i am the senior vice president or a senior vice president, actually more accurately of the federalist society and the director of our faculty division. and on behalf of the federalist society and especially the division in the practice groups, i am delighted to welcome everybody on this rainy tuesday afternoon. excellent turnout. with that in mind, and without further ado, i would like to turn things over to our splendid moderator, sarah of the dispatch who will take matters from here. over to you. sarah: thank you. [applause] what a treat to be doing our ot 24 supreme cou

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trump is now called hitler you can go back to 1948 where harry truman called thomas dewey democrat calledandidate for president hitler. fascist, bigot all of the tricks are like it is nothing new. it's -- it's the same tool over and over again. it is ratcheted incredibly high. where do they think it is their play right before -- >> with on off they did do a segment on "fox & friends" and gerald ford they did it to ronald reagan george w. bush to your point and mitt romney and paul ryan but with trump it is repetition it is not a one off. it is their slogan. he's a fascist he's a dictator he wants to be next hitler dictator it is all they're saying and it is actually really, really dangerous. rachel: they're taking him out of context he's saying i'll be a dictator when we do executive orders it was all said if you watch the clip it was obvious. but they keep using that. by the way, kamala harris was asked to respond to that letter by speaker johnson and leader mcconnell and here's -- [inaudible conversations] >> we all must speak out against any form of political violence and i'm very clea

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and what was considered a major upset, harry truman defeated the republican new york governor thomas deweykeeping the white houser re years. watch historic presidential electionsurday at 7:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span two. >> "washington journal" continues. host: welcome back. we are going to talk about women voters and campaign 2024. our guest is christian nunes, national organization for women president. explain the organization and with the goals are in the funding is. guest: national organization for women is the oldest and largest women's organization in the u.s., grassroots membership organization made up founded in 1966 and made up of state and local chapters throughout the u.s. and also in puerto rico. our work is around making sure we are having an approach to look for rights and equality and we do this right focusing on six core issues, constitutional equality, economic justice, violence against women, lgbtqia rights, racial justice and reproductive rights. when we look at this, wait make sure we are acknowledging every woman has different issues that impact t

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greatest upset his own election to a full fourur year term over new york republicanrn governor thomas dewey. thanks for joining us for american history tv series historic presidentialns electio. during this election season, we're looking at past presidential races and this week it's the election of 1948. our guest is andrew bush university of tennessee civics professor and associate director of institute of american civics at university of tennessee and the author of this book truman's triumphs, 1948 election and making of post war america. here in the election from 1948. president truman got 49.5% of the vote and 24 million votes with 303 electoral votes winning 28 states and thomas dewey, 45.1% of the vote and 22 million votes and 189 electoral votes and he won 16 states. there were other candidates in the race. we'll talk about them in a minute but first of all, professor bush, was it a political shock that harry truman got elected? the south was starting to splint eric and republicans were making inroads and even herbert hoover in 128 won a few states in the other stops and the peripher