Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Chirongwa chaRoosevelt chokunyengetedza Hoover kumhanya nokuda kwekusarudzwa kweDemocratic chakakundikana pashure pokunge Hoover ataura pachena kuti akanga ari weRepublican, asi Roosevelt zvisinei akasarudza kutsvaka kugadzwa kwevamiriri veMutungamiri weChipiri muna 1920. Pashure pokunge Gavhuna James M. Cox weOhio akunda kusarudzwa kworutivi rwacho somutungamiri wenyika pa
Muna 1920, paDemocratic National Convention, akasarudza Roosevelt kuti ave mubatsiri wake, uye bato racho rakaronga kuti Roosevelt asarudzwe. Kunyange zvazvo kugadzwa kwake kwakashamisa vanhu vakawanda, Roosevelt akaenzanisa tikiti somunhu ane mwero, weWilsonian, uye anorambidza ane zita rakakurumbira. Roosevelt akanga achangobva kusvitsa makore 38, ari muduku nemakore mana kuna Theodore paakagadzwawo nebato rake. Roosevelt akasiya basa soMutevedzeri woMunyori Mukuru weNavy pashure pekokorodzano yeDemocratic uye akaita mushandirapamwe munyika yose nokuda kwetikiti yaCox<unk>Roosevelt.