The longtime leader of the Texas Democratic Party is stepping down. Gilberto Hinojosa's announcement Friday comes after ...

A quite similar scenario occurred when a Republican Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860, when a handful of Democratic ... but ...

Minnesota's 10 electoral college votes will be going to Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, CBS News projects.

Today in history: On Nov. 6, 1860, former Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln of the Republican Party was elected President of the ... Benjamin Harrison won the electoral vote over incumbent Democrat ...

There is only one precedent in US history of a president coming to power twice with an interval in between, as Donald Trump has just done, becoming the 47th president after serving as the 45th. That ...

In 2012, U.S. President Barack Obama defeated Republican challenger Mitt Romney to win a second term. Federal finance reports ...

Samuel E. Cornish dies. Along with John Russwurm, he established the first Black-owned and operated newspaper in Amer­ica—“Freedom’s Journal.” The newspaper’s famous motto was “We wish to plead our ...

President Biden and Vice President Harris have pledged full cooperation with the incoming fascist president-elect, while ...

There is an open space for a significant new, centrist political party, created by the pull of the progressive and Donald ...

Bush in 2000 as red, as opposed to blue states won by Democrat Al Gore. The republican party or the Grand Old Party – the GOP – as it is popularly called, was founded in March 1854, in Ripon, ...