The Populist Party abandoned its support of the Democratic Party.
Explanation:
The election of the Democratic Party in support of the Democratic Party candidate was the result of the party’s former chief ruling term.
After the 1896 election, the Republican Party dominated United States elections and political history after seven consecutive presidential victories (Moore, Hemelin, Johnson, Brunsman, & McPherson, 2015).
“Historians and court scholars agree on a pair of 19th-century opinions: Dred Scott v. Sandford, the 1857 ruling that upheld slavery even in the free states, and Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, which condoned segregation as 'separate but equal.