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Washington was not affiliated with any political party. When Washington ran for president, there were no national political parties, at least not in the sense that we have them today.
Although the Founding Fathers of the United States did not originally intend for American politics to be partisan, early political controversies in the 1790s over the extent of federal government powers saw the emergence of two proto-political parties- the Federalist Party and the Democratic-Republican Party, which were championed by Framers Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson, respectively.