WI: TR ran again in 1916?

What if Theodore Roosevelt ran once again in 1916 under either the Republican or Progressive (or both?) nomination? Could he win? What would be the ultimate consequences of this?
 
What if Theodore Roosevelt ran once again in 1916 under either the Republican or Progressive (or both?) nomination? Could he win? What would be the ultimate consequences of this?


Assuming a post-1912 PoD he cannot get the Republican nomination. The party regulars would sooner lose the election than win it with him. It took WW1 to reconcile them.

If he runs as a Progressive, then 1916 is pretty much a rerun of 1912, with a landslide Wilson victory. So there's a solid Democratic majority in both Houses, whch may help Wilson in the League of Nations fight - though he may be too pig-headed for it to make any difference.
 
Nominated, wins, serves. Charles Evan Hughes was widely expected to win the 1916 election, even by Wilson himself, and he was not a hugely popular former president. The only obstacle is TR's defection four years earlier.
 
Nominated, wins, serves. Charles Evan Hughes was widely expected to win the 1916 election, even by Wilson himself, and he was not a hugely popular former president. The only obstacle is TR's defection four years earlier.

But in 1916 that obstacle was an insuperable one.

Also, Hughes did have one advantage over TR in that he wasn't screaming for war - though TR's fulminations may well have cost Hughes the election. So unless TR tones down his bellicose rhetoric a lot more than is likely, he is probably unelectable.
 
Although he was popular remember Wilson won with the slogan he kept us out of war. sSo as a pro war candidate I don't see him winning as the Republican candidate. I agree if he runs on the Progressive ticket it is another Wilson landslide.
 
If he did win I see him dying in office. hfFairbanks died in 1918. If he had a conservative running mate that would actually live than he would be in line with post war politics.
 
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