Garfield contunues

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July.2.1881
President Garfield was shot by a angry cabinent seeker.whom Garfield turned down for a civil service job.police arrest the would be assaign.
By the time .president Garfield is at the hospital he is half councious and mrsGarfield os expecting to become a widow.
However the doctor puts on his gloves and saves president Garfields life.
Had he not worn gloves germs from his hands would of killed Garfield.

The presidency of Garfield.
Throughput Garfields term in office he continues purge ofcorruption and apointing one more supreme cpurt justice to the bench.
Election of 1885.
President Garfield defeats Grover Cleaveland 44% to 33%

 

[WolfBear]

Garfield won't defeat Cleveland by double-digits. However, he might very well defeat Cleveland since he was more honest (or at least perceived as being more honest) than Blaine was, which could be enough to push New York in his direction considering that Blaine lost it by just 0.10%, or slightly over 1,000 votes.

I suspect that (unfortunately) Garfield will approve of Chinese Exclusion in some form both because the 1880 GOP presidential platform supported Chinese Exclusion and also because James G. Blaine did and Blaine was Garfield's Secretary of State and AFAIK had a lot of influence on Garfield.

The Republicans likely nominate Blaine in 1888 in this scenario. As for the Democrats, they either renominate Cleveland in 1888 or nominate someone else, such as David B. Hill, that year.