Like Jackson, Trump reshaped his party. In many ways, though, Trump more closely resembles Jackson than the scandal-plagued Nixon. Following his narrow defeat in the controversial 1824 election ...

The Democratic party is the oldest existing political party in America. Democrats have won 19 of 42 presidential elections since the party first ran a presidential candidate (Andrew Jackson) in 1828.

News about Andrew Jackson, ... The Republican and Democratic conventions still matter; even as the party platforms divide us, the political process binds us together.

Trump has survived by – consciously or not – following the example of another American president who created a political party in his own image and used it to rule almost unchecked: Andrew ...

Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang said he’s reached out to Elon Musk in hopes of collaborating on the creation of a new political party, according to a Saturday interview with ...

In 2020, the Jackson City Council voted to remove the Andrew Jackson statue in a 5-1 vote. ... He founded the Democratic Party for heavens sake, the oldest political party on the planet." ...

Inconveniently, Jackson was long a Democratic icon, nominated for his second term in 1832 by the first Democratic National Convention, and there is something to be said for the man who founded what is ...

The portrait of Andrew Jackson has returned to the wall of the Oval Office, put up in time to greet President Donald Trump as he entered for the first time as the 47th president.

Three separate groups of Republicans, Democrats and Independents announced Wednesday that they are coming together under one umbrella to form a new political party. The goal of the new Forward ...

In our view, if political loyalty replaces merit as the basis of key federal appointments, Americans can expect government to be less competent – as Andrew Jackson learned during his administration.

It took Jackson until his second term to control his administration and his party in Congress, and historians have overstated his political ascendancy in labeling his times "the Jacksonian era." ...