It's a presidential election year, which means the party conventions are a fixture on the summer schedules of every political pundit and reporter. In the past, the big conventions were gatherings ...

President Joe Biden at the 2024 NATO Summit on July 11, 2024 in Washington, DC. Kent Nishimura/Getty Images Now that Joe Biden has dropped out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsed Vice President ...

Political party conventions have been around in the United States since the late 19th Century. It started as a way for political leaders to gather, write a party platform, plan, coordinate — and most ...

The party conventions are over — and I don’t just mean the 2020 conventions. In one sense, the conventions have been over for a very long time. They were created primarily to do two things: pick ...

Now that Joe Biden has dropped out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to be the nominee, it will ultimately be up to Democratic National Convention delegates to ...

MID-MICHIGAN (WNEM) – Tuesday, Aug. 20, was night two of the Democratic National Convention, and it highlighted some of the differences and similarities between both parties’ conventions. This year, ...

The cheering, clapping and speechifying are over. Historians from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History have returned after their trips to the 2024 political party conventions to ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - As North Dakota’s Republican and Democratic parties gather for endorsing conventions this week, they face very different challenges. For Republicans, it’s a question of whether ...

Party conventions used to nominate presidential candidates. Now that's all done in advance. Next week's Republican Party convention plans to break with tradition. Instead of waiting until Wednesday, ...

OGDEN — A key date on the local political calendar is just around the corner. The Weber County Democratic Party and the Weber County Republican Party are set to hold their respective county ...

President Joe Biden at the 2024 NATO Summit on July 11, 2024 in Washington, DC. Kent Nishimura/Getty Images Now that Joe Biden has dropped out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsed Vice President ...