During the 1916 presidential election, Woodrow Wilson: ran as a Reform candidate due to divisions in the Democratic Party. won the election but only by a very small margin. faced two opponents: Theodore Roosevelt and Charles Evans Hughes. promised that he would continue to keep the United States out of war.
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