Roosevelt believed that Taft did not deal with trusts aggressively enough.
Theodore Roosevelt.
Theodore Roosevelt.
Republican
Roosevelt strongly supported William Howard Taft, who won the nomination in 1908 on the first ballot at the Republican convention.
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.
Theodore Roosevelt failed to win the Republican nomination in 1912 and he wanted to be President, so he formed his own party and ran against the Republicans and Democrats.
After Theodore Roosevelt failed to win the Republican Party Presidential Nomination in 1912, he formed the Progressive Party, which also became known as the Bull Moose Party because the Bull Moose was a nickname of Theodore Roosevelt.
Woodrow Wilson won the Presidential election in 1912 due to Theodore Roosevelt's decision to start his own party. Roosevelt didn't get the Republican nomination so he broke off and created the Progressive Party.
Theodore Roosevelt decided to run again. Taft refused to give up the Republican nomination, so Theodore Roosevelt ran on the Third Party Ticket of the Bull Moose Party,officially known as the Progressive Party.
Roosevelt was a candidate for the Progressive's Bull Moose Party.
Theodore Roosevelt