City Council Minority Leader Dan Brunet and We the People incumbent Bob Williams confirmed they were running for reelection ahead of the GOP's nominating convention next week. Brunet and Williams join ...

The last time there was serious doubt about who a convention would nominate was in 1976, when Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan battled for the Republican nomination in Kansas City. And the last time a ...

There has not been an “open” national political convention, either on the Democratic or Republican side, since 1968. In that tumultuous year, both parties had open or contested conventions ...

So what’s the point of having primaries AND nominating conventions? When you vote for a candidate in a primary, you're not voting for that person. You weren't voting for Joe Biden.

At the 2020 convention, then-candidate Joe Biden won the nomination after delegates cast their votes virtually through a series of elaborate live remote video presentations from every state and U ...

Harris to accept nomination while campaigning in Wisconsin 04:41. Washington — Vice President Kamala Harris is riding a wave of voter enthusiasm into the Democratic National Convention that has ...

Well, both parties believe that the Midwest will be key to winning the White House this year. And Republicans hope that holding their convention here in Wisconsin will help to tip the scales in ...

“So the nominating conventions have become sort of coronation ceremonies,” says Hemmer. That will even be the case for Kamala Harris, who was actually nominated in a virtual roll call on July 30.

Every four years, U.S. presidential candidates compete in a series of state contests to gain their party’s nomination. The political process is one of the most complex and expensive in the world.

Well, both parties believe that the Midwest will be key to winning the White House this year. And Republicans hope that holding their convention here in Wisconsin will help to tip the scales in ...

Chicago has hosted more presidential nominating conventions than any other U.S. city, going back to Abraham Lincoln in 1860. The notorious and consequential 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago ...