The Fourteen Points were his goals for a safer world but England and France felt this was being done with an ulterior motive. Wilson made the mistake of pushing voters to elect a Democratically in November 1918 infuriating many Republicans especially ones who supported the Fourteen Points. Problems worsened when the Democrats lost the House and Senate and adversaries announced that they were rejecting Wilson's policies. Another poor choice of Wilson's was the isolation he created between himself and some Republican leaders. Republicans now started attacking Wilson after he announced he would be attending the upcoming Peace Conference, which was out of the ordinary to be done and continued to receive numerous criticisms after naming the rest of the delegation team with only one white Republican. Elihu Root and ex-President Taft, both known as enthusiastic internationalist, were not chosen to the delegation by Wilson nor was Henry Cabot who would end up leaving the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Wilson was not strong in appointing authority or accepting criticism and wanted a team he could control which was proved not to give him any power over the treaty at home. Wilson thought he had European support of his goals in that there would be an acceptance from leaders but soon