Governor Dewey, the last white hope of Chiang Kai-shek, was defeated. And with him the generalissimo.

杜威州长的落选使蒋寄托于美国的最后一点希望落空，蒋本人跟着也完蛋了。

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Almost everyone believed that the Republican candidate, New York Governor Thomas Dewey, would capture the office.

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Then, shortly before the broadcast, a phone call from Governor Dewey, who, for all his establishment credentials, had been a real Nixon supporter, threw the candidate into a tailspin.

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Democrat Harry Truman did it in 1948 and beat a weak GOP candidate ( New York governor Tom Dewey), albeit in a close vote.

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Ultimately, that wing came to be dominated by two-time Presidential nominee, Thomas Dewey, governor of New York.

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