WI: William Henry Harrison in 1836

In the 1836 election, the Whig Party ran 4 candidates representing different regions. This was done for 2 main reason: 1). The Whig Party couldn't agree on a candidate, 2). They attempted a strategy of placing several candidates on the ballot in hopes of ensuring that no one candidate would get enough votes in the electoral college, thereby throwing the election to congress, where the Whigs would pick William Henry Harrison. This strategy proved itself to not work, so in 1840 they did not use it.

So here are a few questions

1.could William Henry Harrison have won in 1836 if the party didn't run 3 additional candidates?

2. What would a Harrison administraiton look like at this time?

3. How would Harrison handle the Texas issue?
 
All of the Whig electoral votes combined do not even add up equivalently to what Martin Van Buren received for his nomination.

I guess if they focused upon a single candidate it would be possible, but Harrison would have to win some of the larger, more populous states to end up winning.
 
Looking at the OTL popular and electoral vote totals for the 1836 election I can't see any realistic way that WHH defeats Van Buren. Were he to win, I believe that Harrison would decline to support Texas' entry into the Union for both domestic (slavery) and international (relations w/Mexico) reasons.
 
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