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Jerald Podair, Professor of History, Lawrence University

Teddy Roosevelt's failed Bull Moose campaign may portend the future of the GOP and Donald Trump

A bold and brash Teddy Roosevelt during a visit to the Badlands in 1885. MPI/Getty Images

What happens when a former president decides he wants his old job back, regardless of what stands in his way?

As Donald Trump launches his third run for the White House, it is useful to look back at another ex-president, Theodore Roosevelt, whose campaign to regain the office from his successor, William Howard Taft, divided the Republican Party and ensured the victory of Democrat Woodrow Wilson in the presidential election of 1912.

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