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In 1896, the GOP was prepared to nominate Garrett Hobart for Vice President until McKinley interfered and picked Lyman Gage. Gage’s moderation made the Republican ticket more acceptable to formerly Democratic voters such as the Mugwumps and many former Bourbon Democrats in the Midwest, New York, and the previously “Solid” South, where the ticket picked up Virginia and Tennessee. This led to a landslide loss for William Jennings Bryan and discredited his Populism.

Garrett Hobart died in 1899, so assuming he dies around the same time as VP, who would McKinley pick for his VP in a 1900 election, and what knock-on effects could that have on history, especially given whoever he picks as VP has a good chance of succeeding him as President, as Gage did IOTL?
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