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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/><ref group=note>It's important to note that FDR's [[New Deal]] programs contained fascist elements and were [https://mises.org/library/three-new-deals-why-nazis-and-fascists-loved-fdr supported by Nazis].</ref> 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, which afterwards the representative-elect declared:<ref name=history.house.gov/>

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, which afterwards the representative-elect declared:<ref name=history.house.gov/>

{{cquote|I have campaigned for fighting a hard war—not a soft war. Therefore this election proves how the American people want to fight this war. They want to fight it efficiently and without bungling. They want to fight it in an honorable, all-out, plain-spoken partnership with our Allies.}}

{{cquote|I have campaigned for fighting a hard war—not a soft war. Therefore this election proves how the American people want to fight this war. They want to fight it efficiently and without bungling. They want to fight it in an honorable, all-out, plain-spoken partnership with our Allies.}}

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