Political parties’ platforms – their statements of where they stand on issues – get little respect. In 2020, then-President Donald Trump mused he might shrink his party’s platform from 66 pages in ...

Then-President Trump after addressing delegates at the Republican National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., in 2020. (David T. Foster III / Pool Photo ) The Republican National Convention's platform ...

The policy platform adopted Monday at the Democratic National Convention is unlikely to sway many voters, but it does offer some insights into how the party is attempting to move toward the center on ...

Republicans are once again attempting to reject the long tradition of setting out a detailed party platform. In 2020, they discarded the platform drafting entirely and wrote a note just pointing at ...

The Republican National Convention starts today in Milwaukee. For the first time since 1980, and at the insistence of former President Donald Trump, the GOP's platform will not include support for a ...

MILWAUKEE — In the nine months since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and the ensuing war in Gaza, the conflict reshaped the political landscape and put each party’s position on the Jewish state ...

A week before Republicans gather in Milwaukee to nominate Donald Trump as their presidential nominee for a third time, the party approved a new platform that solidifies the former president's takeover ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — Four days before the ...

I have attended five national party conventions over the years — from 1964 in San Francisco to 2000 in Philadelphia. I worked as staff on platform and rules committees for House members who were also ...