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Roosevelt strongly supported William Howard Taft, who won the nomination in 1908 on the first ballot at the Republican convention.
The Taft-Roosevelt explosion happened in June of 1912 when the Republican convention met in Chicago. When it came time to vote, the Roosevelt supporters claimed fraud and in the end refused to vote. Taft subsequently won the Republican nomination.
Theodore Roosevelt.
Theodore Roosevelt.
Had stolen the Republican Nomination from Roosevelt who had then walked out with his supporters and ran under the Progressive Party Platform
Theodore Roosevelt (opposing William Howard Taft)
Theodore Roosevelt. When he failed to wrest the Republican presidential nomination away from Taft, Roosevelt and his supporters quit the Republican party and started their own party, so Roosevelt could run for president anyway.
Roosevelt believed that Taft did not deal with trusts aggressively enough.
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Teddy Roosevelt did make mistakes during his time as president. His biggest mistake was challenging Taft for the 1912 Republican nomination.