Ramba uchinyora ndima iyi - Sezvo sarudzo dzakanga dzichiswedera pedyo, vamwe vagari vakakurumbira uye vezvamatongerwe enyika vemapato ose vari maviri vakakurudzira Eisenhower kumhanyira kuva purezidhendi. Muna January 1948, pashure pokuziva nezvezvirongwa muNew Hampshire zvokusarudza nhume dzinomutsigira nokuda kweRepublican National Convention yaizouya
Muna 1917, Eisenhower akataura kuburikidza neuto kuti akanga "asina kuwanikwa uye aisagona kugamuchira kusarudzwa kwebasa repamusoro rezvematongerwe enyika"; "varwi vehupenyu hwese", akanyora, "pasina chikonzero chiri pachena uye chakakosha, [vanofanira] kurega kutsvaga basa repamusoro rezvematongerwo enyika". Eisenhower haana kuramba ari mubato rezvematongerwe enyika panguva iyi. Vazhinji vaitenda kuti akanga achirasikirwa nomukana wake bedzi wokuva purezidhendi sezvo muRepublican Thomas E. Dewey aionekwa somukundi anobvira uye angangodaro akashanda nguva mbiri, zvichireva kuti Eisenhower, pazera remakore 66 muna 1956, aizova akwegura zvikuru kuti ave nemumwe mukana wokumhanya.