American presidential elections
American presidential elections
When Wilson ran for a second term in office in 1916, his campaign team presented him as ‘the man who kept the United States out of the war.’ Wilson’s declaration of neutrality met with general approval from his party, as many Americans were in favour of isolationist politics.
His contestant, Charles Evans Hughes, was very popular as well. The election results were even so close that Hughes was assumed to be the new president of the United States by the international press!
Read more about the stance of America at the beginning of the war in our blog: 'Wilson and the politics of neutrality'.
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