Kammala wannan jumla: A 1968, tikitin Nixon-Agnew ya fuskanci manyan abokan adawa guda biyu. 'Yan Democrat, a cikin
wani taron da aka lalata da zanga-zangar ta'addanci, ya zabi Mataimakin Shugaban kasa Hubert Humphrey da Sanata Edmund Muskie na Maine a matsayin masu dauke da tutarsu. Tsohon Gwamnan Alabama mai banbanci, George Wallace, ya yi takara a matsayin dan takara na uku, kuma ana tsammanin zai yi kyau a cikin Deep South. Nixon, yana sane da ƙuntatawa da ya yi aiki a matsayin mataimakin Eisenhower a 1952 da 1956, ya ƙuduri aniyar ba Agnew 'yanci da yawa kuma ya bayyana a fili cewa abokin takararsa yana da goyon bayansa. Agnew kuma zai iya amfani da rawar "karin hari", kamar yadda Nixon ya yi a 1952.