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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. 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>
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.}}
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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