After failing to oust President William H. Taft from the Republican Party ticket, former President Theodore Roosevelt founds the Progressive Party, which was later nicknamed the "Bull Moose" Party. Roosevelt and Taft split the Republican vote and both were ultimately defeated by Democrat Woodrow Wilson.
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