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#To bring about a better world and a durable peace, with special attention to postwar security and employment here at home.}}

#To bring about a better world and a durable peace, with special attention to postwar security and employment here at home.}}

Although an internationalist unlike many isolationists who had dominated the GOP for a long period, Luce campaigned against Downs in the general election as a "rubber stamp" for the Roosevelt Administration.<ref name=history.house.gov/> Gaining traction from an endorsement by unsuccessful Republican presidential nominee [[Wendell Willkie]], she defeated Downs by five percentage points.<ref name=history.house.gov/><ref>[https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=253140 CT District 4 Race - Nov 03, 1942]. ''Our Campaigns''. Retrieved September 25, 2021.</ref> A socialist candidate in the race siphoned away 15,000 votes, likely having been the primary reason for Luce's victory.

Although an internationalist unlike many isolationists who had dominated the GOP for a long period, Luce campaigned against Downs in the general election as a "rubber stamp" for the Roosevelt Administration.<ref name=history.house.gov/> Gaining traction from an endorsement by unsuccessful Republican presidential nominee [[Wendell Willkie]], she defeated Downs by five percentage points.<ref name=history.house.gov/><ref>[https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=253140 CT District 4 Race - Nov 03, 1942]. ''Our Campaigns''. Retrieved September 25, 2021.</ref> A socialist candidate in the race siphoned away 15,000 votes, likely having been the primary reason for Luce's victory. Luce was re-elected by only one percentage point in the following 1944 races, once again benefiting from a Socialist Party candidate drawing support away from her Democrat opponent.<ref>[https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=253194 CT District 4 Race - Nov 07, 1944]. ''Our Campaigns''. Retrieved September 25, 2021.</ref>

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