AH Challenge: Make Eugene Debs President

Is it possible? The challenge is to form a timeline which leads to a Eugene Debs presidency with a twist no earlier then 1894 after the Pullman Strike.
 
Does it have to be the Eugene Debs we know? Can he have been a moderate or have moderated, enough to draw on one of the major parties? Or does he have to be OTL Debs?
 
Does it have to be the Eugene Debs we know? Can he have been a moderate or have moderated, enough to draw on one of the major parties? Or does he have to be OTL Debs?

Yes he could have moderated but I do believe he still needs to hold the same core values.
 
Yes he could have moderated but I do believe he still needs to hold the same core values.

Then I want a World War, one that involves an invasion of the United States, one where an absolute supply of labor is essential to national survival. Debs is brought onto a coalition presidential ticket as VP, and whoever's on top dies of a heart attack. He had to moderate, meet the major parties in the middle, as part of a war-time compromise. Maybe the aggressors are the reactionary imperial type, the sort socialists and capitalists can agree are bad news.
 
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