Until 1968, presidential candidates were picked by party conventions — a process revived by Biden’s withdrawal from race Picking a nominee through primaries and caucuses is a relatively recent ...

Republican Presidents The Republican Party, often referred to as the GOP (Grand Old Party), was founded in the mid-19th ...

Political parties often nominate the incumbent president for reelection if the leader is a member of their party. For example, after Trump won the 2016 presidential election, he was easily ...

1.Victoria Woodhull ran in 1872 as a candidate of the Equal Rights Party against Ulysses S. Grant (R) and Horace Greeley (D).

The Democratic National Convention's second night highlighted the party's past presidents, particularly Chicago's own Barack Obama, tying them to Vice President Kamala Harris.

If 2024 has taught us anything, it's that no presidential election is ever the same. This year's contest featured the first major-party nomination of a former president — Donald Trump — since ...

With President Joe Biden out of the presidential race, the Democratic Party will have to find another nominee. Past methods of choosing have had their flaws, but also their successes.

Dan McLaughlin's ranking of the Democratic presidents by overall assessment of the good and harm they did to the country — starting with the top nine out of 18.

None of these “late regime” presidents, as Skowronek called them, could generate enough success in office to reverse their party’s declining support; instead, they accelerated it.

Former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joined Mr. Biden in endorsing Harris for the Democratic presidential nomination and said it's time for the party to fight to ...

A look back at other sitting vice presidents who were running for the top job and debating on TV against the nominee of the opposition party: Gore in 2000, George H.W. Bush in 1988 and Nixon in 1960.