Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Truman akanga akwira kuva purezidhendi muna April 1945 pashure porufu rwaFranklin D. Roosevelt. Achikunda kuedza kumubvisa tikiti, Truman akakunda kusarudzwa kwemutungamiri wenyika paDemocratic National Convention muna 1948. Musangano weDemocratic wezvemitemo yevagari vemo wakakonzera kubuda kwevamwe vamiriri veSouth, avo vakatanga tikiti rechitatu re "Dixiecrat" rinotungamirwa naGavhuna Strom Thurmond weSouth Carolina. VaDixiecrats vaitarisira kukunda mavhoti esarudzo akakwana kuti vamanikidzire sarudzo dzenguva dzose muImba yeVamiririri, kwavaigona kutora zvibvumirano kubva kuna Dewey kana Truman mukutsinhana nerutsigiro rwavo. Truman akatarisanawo nedambudziko kubva mubato rake muchimiro cheaimbova Mutevedzeri weMutungamiri Henry A. Wallace, uyo akatanga bato reProgressive Party uye akapokana nemitemo yaTruman yekurwisana kweCold War. Dewey, uyo akanga ari mutungamiriri webato rake rorusununguko rwekumabvazuva uye akanga ari mukwikwidzi weRepublican muna 1944, akakunda Seneta Robert A. Taft nevamwe vakakwikwidza pa
Gungano Renyika reRepublican ra1948.