Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A watan Yuni, 1916 Republican National Convention ya zaɓi Hughes a matsayin sulhu tsakanin masu ra'ayin mazan jiya da masu ci gaba na jam'iyyar. Hughes ya kayar da John W. Weeks, Elihu Root, da wasu 'yan takara da dama a kuri'a ta uku na taron. Duk da yake 'yan jam'iyyar Republican masu ra'ayin mazan jiya da masu ci gaba sun rarrabu a zaben 1912 tsakanin' yan takarar Shugaba William Howard Taft da tsohon Shugaba Theodore Roosevelt, sun haɗu da Hughes a kokarinsa na kawar da Wilson., Hughes ya kasance ne kawai na yanzu ko tsohon Kotun Koli na Kotun Koli don yin aiki a matsayin babban dan takarar shugaban kasa. An sake zabar Wilson a taron kasa na Jam'iyyar Democrat na 1916
bayan 'yan kwanaki, ba tare da adawa ba. Duk da yake Mataimakin Shugaban Wilson Thomas R. Marshall ya sake zabarsa, abokin takarar Hughes shi ne Charles W. Fairbanks, wanda ya kasance mataimakin shugaban Theodore Roosevelt a wa'adinsa na biyu.