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My goal is to have Roosevelt win as a Progressive in 1912, so that his new party can become a fixture as a viable third party up until the present. For him to win, I'm thinking the Democrats would not only have to nominate someone to turn off Progressives, but someone who could alienate Bryan and his supporters causing them to leave and run as Populists. So maybe with just enough votes, Champ Clark gets the nomination over Wilson when Tammany Hall throws their support behind him, and Bryan protests against Clark as an agent of Wall Street and vows to run against him in the general election.

So would the nomination of Champ Clark be a good enough reason for Bryan to leave the party and run as a Populist, and would that cause the Democratic vote to fracture enough for Roosevelt to win?
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