2. Harding Wins Landslide Following Heated Conventions - DAVID-PIETRUSZA-1920

CAPTION COOLIDGE AND THE BANKERSHarding Wins Landslide Following Heated ConventionsDavid Pietrusza, Part Two: The 1920 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco requires 44 grueling ballots under the two-thirds rule to select Ohio Governor James M. Cox, pairing him with vice-presidential nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt. The campaign unfolds amid national unrest, highlighted by anarchist bombings targeting Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer and Socialist Eugene V. Debs running from prison. Warren G. Harding secures a massive landslide victory, garnering 16 million votes and 404 electoral votes after running a front-porch campaign in Marion, Ohio. Following Harding's death in 1923, Calvin Coolidge assumes the presidency, restoring public trust before Herbert Hoover and FDR shape subsequent presidential eras. (2)