Why did President Cleveland's support of tariff reform hurt his chances at reelection in 1888?
A) The vast majority of the country was definitively against tariff reform.
B) Cleveland lost the support of farmers, a key Democratic constituency who supported high tariffs.
C) It contradicted his 1884 campaign pledge to keep tariffs very high.
D) It eliminated any difference between him and Benjamin Harrison, his Republican challenger.
E) It inspired business leaders who supported high tariffs to donate millions of dollars to the Republican campaign to defeat Cleveland.
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