A third party Gold Democrat candidate enters the race (and does well, unlike Palmer)

[Libertas Vel Mors]

How plausible is this map? I flipped a couple of the closer plains states R on the assumption that a stronger National Democrat showing flips them to McKinley, and gave some of the states where McKinley did better in the South (ie getting 46% in Virginia or 37% in Georgia) to the candidate on the assumption that most of the voters were defecting Democrats anyway.

[Libertas Vel Mors]

Sorry mods -- can you move this to past election what ifs? My bad.

[Libertas Vel Mors]

For what is worth, here is my attempt at recreating that on the The Campaign Trail game (it is very easy actually, just answer you want a "true enforcement of the 14th and 15th amendment" and Palmer surges in the South)

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/1448723

As Bryan or McKinley?