 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Mutevedzeri woMukuru Mukuru Wepositi Frank H. Hitchcock akasiya basa rake muna February 1908 kuti atungamirire nhamburiko dzaTaft. Muna April, Taft akaita rwendo rwokutaura, achienda kumadokero kure seOmaha asati adzorerwa kuti aende kuPanama kunoruramisa sarudzo yaipikiswa. PaNational Republican Convention ya1908muChicago muna June, kwakanga kusina vanomushora zvakakomba, uye akawana rukundo rwokutanga rwokuvhota. Asi Taft haana kuita zvinhu nenzira yake amene: akanga atarisira kuti mukwikwidzi wake aizova wepakati-kumadokero anofambira mberi akafanana naIowa Senator Jonathan Dolliver, asi panzvimbo pezvo kokorodzano yakasarudza Congressman James S. Sherman weNew York, anochengetedza. Taft akasiya basa rake saGurukota reHondo musi wa30 June kuti azvipire nguva yakazara pakurwisa. 