Americans’ opinion of the Republican Party is on the rise, according to a new poll from The Economist/YouGov. In the poll, 45 percent of Americans said they feel “favorable” toward the ...

The Federalists would never again rise to power. Known informally as ... won election to the presidency in 1800. This Republican party, which would hold power until 1825, is the direct ancestor ...

Since the 1970s, the Kochs personally donated at least $100 million to aid the rise of the Tea Party movement and bolster the Republican Party, according to The New York Times. The Tea Party ...

Tom Hayden, 1961 At the start of the '60s, two factions vie for control of the Republican Party: a liberal faction based in New England, and a new conservative element in the West and Southeast.

In his later years, he lamented the rise of President Donald J. Trump and what he called the disappearance of the Republican Party that he had spent his life building. At his 90th-birthday party ...

Challenges: At the time of James Buchanan’s election, the Union itself was at stake, as the South was now actively threatening secession with the rise of the Republican Party. The continuing issue of ...