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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.
The United States presidential election of 1912 was fought among three major candidates. Incumbent President William Howard Taft was renominated by the Republican Party with the support of the conservative wing of the party. After former President Theodore Roosevelt failed to receive the Republican nomination, he called his own convention and created the Progressive Party (nicknamed the Bull Moose Party).