Kunyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Mushure mokukunda musarudzo kuSeneti muna 1938 pamusoro peDemocrat Robert J. Bulkley, Taft akaramba achitsvaka kusarudzwa kweMutungamiri weRepublican, kazhinji achirwisana nekutonga kwebato neboka reRepublican 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 pa1948 Republican National Convention
. Akaramba kuvambwa kweNATO uye akatsoropodza mabatiro aiita Mutungamiri Harry Truman Hondo yeKorea.