Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Pashure pokukunda musarudzo dzokuSeneti muna 1938 pamusoro peDemocrat yaivapo Robert J. Bulkley, Taft akaramba achitsvaka kusarudzwa kwemutungamiri weRepublican, kazhinji achirwa kuti atonge bato racho neboka reRepublican rakapfava rinotungamirirwa naThomas E. Dewey. Akabudawo somunhu akakurumbira asiri kupindira uye akapikisa kubatanidzwa kweU.S. muHondo Yenyika II isati yasvika 1941 Kurwiswa kweJapan kuPearl Harbor. Maonero aTaft okusapindira akakuvadza kukwikwidza kwake muna 1940, uye Republican National Convention ya1940 yakasarudza Wendell Willkie. Taft akatsvakazve kuva purezidhendi muna 1948, asi akarasikirwa naDewey pa
Gungano Renyika reRepublican ra1948. Akaramba kuvambwa kweNATO uye akatsoropodza mabatiro aiita Mutungamiri Harry Truman Hondo yeKorea.