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In 1940, Cody McBride, an American expatriate living in the United Kingdom, said he was a Democrat as opposed to a Republican but felt he was too busy to get involved in politics. (PROSE: Illegal Alien [+]Loading...["Illegal Alien (novel)"])
In 1972, five burglars were caught breaking into the Democratic Party headquarters. Their plan was to steal information that would damage the Democrats' chances in that year's presidential election. Following the election, (PROSE: Tricky Dicky [+]Loading...["Tricky Dicky (short story)"]) the US Senate Watergate Committee investigated the reports. (PROSE: The Secret Lives of Monsters [+]Loading...["The Secret Lives of Monsters (short story)"]) The burglars were found to be linked to rival party President Richard Nixon and his Committee to Re-elect the President following the investigation. This became known as the Watergate scandal. (PROSE: Tricky Dicky [+]Loading...["Tricky Dicky (short story)"])
In 2012, Diana Goddard found the Democrats "funny," and expressed her belief that the next President of the United States would be a Democrat. Henry van Statten implied that he would be the one to decide whether that would happen. (TV: Dalek [+]Loading...["Dalek (TV story)"])
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While the "rival party" of the Democrats is never clarified in Tricky Dicky [+]Loading...["Tricky Dicky (short story)"], it is referring to the Republican Party, the party of President Nixon.
Several US Presidents who have been mentioned to exist in the DWU, but whose party has not been stated, were Republicans in the real world. These include: Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, James Buchanan, Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama.