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When George Wallace ran for President in 1968, it was not as a Democrat – which he had done in the 1964 Democratic primaries and would again in the 1972 Democratic primaries – but as a candidate of the American Independent Party.
Oct 25, 2024 · Many (including Wallace himself) claimed that populist U.S. presidencies with anti-Washington leanings—such as those of Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan—were helped by ideas made familiar to the American public by George Wallace.
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Sep 10, 2013 · She pointed out Wallace in his early political life was a progressive, a liberal, a populist, some even thought a socialist.
May 12, 2022 · The governor of Alabama and an ardent segregationist, George Wallace was in Laurel, Maryland, campaigning to become the Democratic nominee for president. He fired up the crowd by railing...
- Diane Bernard
Wallace even had a political party—the American Independent Party—and he declared the George Wallace 1968 presidential campaign. George Wallace sidestepped a head-on campaign about race and used the slogan “Law and Order,” even though everyone knew what he meant.
George Wallace's political career included four bids for the presidency of the United States. In 1964, 1972, and 1976 he ran as a Democrat, failing three times to receive the party's nomination.
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Aug 21, 2018 · Wallace's populist appeal was referenced often during the campaign of Presidential Donald Trump. Trump's candidacy was a "replay of Wallace, Charlie Snider, one of Wallace's most trusted...
