ku dhameystir weedha soo socota: Doorashadii Madaxtooyada, Jamhuuriga James Garfield oo ka soo jeeda gobolka Ohio ayaa ka adkaaday Janaraalka Dimuqraadiga Winfield Hancock. Inkastoo Garfield uu ku guulaystay aqlabiyad cad codadkii doorashada, wuxuu ku guulaystay codadkii ugu yaraa taariikhda. Madaxweynaha Jamhuuriga ee xilka hayay Rutherford B. Hayes ayaa diiday inuu raadsado dib u doorasho. Garfield wuxuu u soo baxay inuu yahay musharaxa madow ee xisbiga Jamhuuriga ka dib Shirweynihii Qaranka ee Xisbiga Jamhuuriga ee 1880, isaga oo ku guuleystay codbixintii 36aad ee madaxweynihii hore Ulysses S. Grant, Senatorka Maine James G. Blaine, iyo Senatorka Ohio John Sherman. Hancock wuxuu qaatay magacaabista
1880 Shirweynihii Qaranka ee Dimuqraadiga ee wareegga labaad ee codbixinta, wuxuu ka adkaaday Senator Delaware Thomas F. Bayard iyo dhowr musharax oo kale. Garfield wuxuu ahaa xubinkii ugu horreeyay ee ka tirsan Congress-ka ee loo doorto madaxweyne, wuxuuna weli yahay xubinkii kaliya ee ka tirsan Aqalka ee ku guuleysta doorashada madaxtinimada.