Explain why roosevelt was worried about long in the election of 1936

Roosevelt was worried about Huey Long because Huey Long presented the only real challenge from the left that Roosevelt had ever faced. Long was the ultimate leftist populist leader and attacked Roosevelt doing enough about the poor. Long, however, was assassinated in 1935.

besides the fact that abraham lincoln abolished slavery, and greatly benefit black people, he had a heavy impact of the definition of what democracy was, and should be.