Some new claims came out this week about the Iran hostage crisis that Carter had to deal with. This was one of the events that made people think Carter was a weak president. Specifically, the claims are that people in Reagan's campaign purposely sabotaged the negotiations and offered Iran a side deal to not release the hostages until after the election.
It is difficult to say whether Carter successfully handling the hostage crisis would have changed the election, but we'll never really know.
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