A cautionary tale? Perhaps. ....................... Would Woodrow Wilson have been elected without Nellie’s intervention into presidential politics? Consider that Nellie worked hard to gain Roosevelt’s support: She convinced him that Taft would be a good steward of the presidency. Unfortunately, Roosevelt did not think that Taft lived up to these expectations. He was unhappy with Taft’s presidency and wished that he had not supported Taft in the first place. As a consequence, Roosevelt decided to throw his hat into the ring again, during the presidential election of 1912. That election ultimately degenerated into a three-way race among Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson. In all likelihood, a unified Republican Party could have defeated Wilson that year. But a fractured Republican Party could not. Wilson won the Electoral College handily, 435 electors to Roosevelt’s 88 electors. Taft obtained only 8 electors. https://facebook/TaraRoss.1787/posts/514720575296220:0
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