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The Republican National Convention (RNC) would be held in July and it was evident to Herbert Hoover that his candidate, Senator Robert Taft, was in trouble. The delegate counts indicated that Taft would need every possible vote if he were to stop the juggernaut for Eisenhower. Primary contests in a number of states were quite bitter and it appeared that a convention delegate credential committee would have to resolve the disputes.
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© 2013 Timothy Walch
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Walch, T. (2013). Negotiating the Nomination, 1952. In: Walch, T. (eds) Herbert Hoover and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137334091_4
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