Actually, that’s right. George Wallace ran for President in 1968 for the American Independent Party, retired General Curtis LeMay WAS his running mate, and they carried enough of the South to deny Hubert Humphrey an electoral win against the GOP ticket of Nixon/Agnew.
If Wallace had NOT been shot, he would very likely have been the nominee for the Democrat Party in ‘72 and he certainly would have fared better with the voting public than that traitor-Commie George McGovern.
No telling who Wallace’s running mate in ‘72 might have been, if he had become the nominee.