A report on Democratic Party (United States), Grover Cleveland, 1884 United States presidential election and Republican Party (United States)

Its main political rival has been the Republican Party since the 1850s.

It saw the first Democrat elected President of the United States since James Buchanan in 1856, and the first Democratic president to hold office since Andrew Johnson, who assumed the presidency after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

Since the mid-1850s, it has been the main political rival of the Democratic Party.

He won the popular vote for three presidential elections—in 1884, 1888, and 1892—and was one of two Democrats (followed by Woodrow Wilson in 1912) to be elected president during the era of Republican presidential domination dating from 1861 to 1933.

Governor Grover Cleveland of New York defeated Republican James G. Blaine of Maine.

From his earliest involvement in politics, Cleveland aligned with the Democratic Party.

The party was dominated by pro-business Bourbon Democrats led by Samuel J. Tilden and Grover Cleveland, who represented mercantile, banking, and railroad interests; opposed imperialism and overseas expansion; fought for the gold standard; opposed bimetallism; and crusaded against corruption, high taxes and tariffs.

Cleveland was elected to non-consecutive presidential terms in 1884 and 1892.

Blaine once again ran for the presidency, winning the nomination but losing to Democrat Grover Cleveland in 1884, the first Democrat to be elected president since Buchanan.

Although lacking irrefutable evidence that Cleveland was the father, the illegitimate child became a campaign issue for the GOP in Cleveland's first presidential campaign, where they smeared him by claiming that he was "immoral" and for allegedly acting cruelly by not raising the child himself.