When franklin d. roosevelt ran for president in 1932, the country was

Mired in the Great Depression, is the right answer.

Explanation:

The Presidential election of 1932 in the United States, held on 8th November 1932. In this election, Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democrat defeated Herbert Hoover, a Republican President. The time in which the election was held was the time of the Great Depression and it signified a dramatic transformation in the political arrangement of the nation.

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