How did Theodore Roosevelt become a party nominee in the presidential election of 1912?

Theodore Roosevelt challenged Republican incumbent William Howard Taft for the party’s nomination in 1912 but did not win it. Roosevelt then left the Republicans and ran as the nominee of the newly formed Progressive Party, also known as the Bull Moose Party. So the correct choice is that he split from the Republicans and formed the Progressive Party.

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