1940 United States presidential election
The Republican Party chose Wendell Willkie. Willkie had run an electric company.  He had liked the New Deal until Roosevelt made the Tennessee Valley Authority, which sold people cheap electricity.  Willkie traveled to 31 states by train.  In his campaign, he told voters he would keep most New Deal programs and talked about how anyone having a third term as president would be bad. "If one man is indispensable, then none of us is free," he said.