Plausibility check: FDR re-elected despite Huey Long's third party challenge

In OTL, FDR was re-elected with 60.8% of the popular vote, over Alf Landon's 36.5%. In a number of TLs here, Long would be able to give the election to Landon had he survived the assassination attempt or the assassination simply did not take place at all. However, given that Landon only got 36.5% of the vote in OTL, and the presence of a much stronger third party candidate may well take away some very few purely anti-FDR votes, is it possible that FDR could still be re-elected given that Long cannot split enough votes of him to win? What would be the effect of a much smaller victory, would FDR simply give up his 1940 run?

(This is not a thread to discuss the possibility of a stronger SOW challenge if Long survives, but that he does not run himself. Such a ticket may do better than William Lemke, but not possibly enough to cost FDR's election.)
 
Huey Long may have been popular, but much like Robert La Follette in '24 and (the other) Roosevelt in '12, the election would have gone to the winner anyway. FDR was on the top of the world at that point, no one could challenge him and win. All this would do would kill Long's power and give FDR a smaller margin.
 
Wasn't long planning on running someone else anyway, with his own tacit backing, in order to set himself up to run in 1940?
 
Any way Long or his nominee runs second??

FDR already has all the left and center-left with him, the Republicans will get some begrudging rightists, and only the far-left would support Long.

It's actually more plausible that another right wing party could try and overthrow the Republicans in the meantime, rather than a small left-wing one taking on the behemoth that is the Great Depression/WWII Democratic Party.
 
FDR already has all the left and center-left with him, the Republicans will get some begrudging rightists, and only the far-left would support Long.

It's actually more plausible that another right wing party could try and overthrow the Republicans in the meantime, rather than a small left-wing one taking on the behemoth that is the Great Depression/WWII Democratic Party.

But remember that Norman Thomas and the Socialists also didn't like Long. So it's not as if the far-left would have been a unified front.
 
Wasn't long planning on running someone else anyway, with his own tacit backing, in order to set himself up to run in 1940?

I've stated in my post that "this is not a thread to discuss the possibility of a stronger SOW challenge if Long survives, but that he does not run himself. Such a ticket may do better than William Lemke, but not possibly enough to cost FDR's election", since I also see this as a more likely scenario:)
 
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