The Democrats’ nominating rules make it difficult to challenge for the nomination at the convention, but there is a way to do so. Any challenge must be made in writing no later than the day ...

At Saturday’s Salt Lake County Republican Nominating Convention, GOP delegates will decide whether to send Cline, who unleashed a social media firestorm against a high school student ...

The conventions occur when delegates for the respective parties gather to formally vote on and nominate a candidate for the general election. In general, the conventions "deal with the typically ...

He would have to win delegate support at the nominating convention in Chicago that summer. In the meantime, Kennedy quickly gained immense popularity in the race, carrying primaries in Indiana and ...

U.S. presidential nominating conventions often touch on national security and foreign policy, but don’t always signal the direction of a winning candidate’s policy, explains this Backgrounder.

Once again, we're dispatching a team of journalists to this summer's presidential nominating conventions. They covered the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in July. Now, they're in ...

Davis of West Virginia, won the nomination on the 103rd ballot. The longest and bitterest convention in American history had mercifully come to an end. First, America does indeed have a history of ...

The latest proof is in the increasing number of gubernatorial candidates who are skipping county nominating conventions altogether. NJ Spotlight News is available to stream on pbs.org and the free ...

Abe Lincoln was picked at a raucous convention where cheating was rampant. Teddy Roosevelt won the primaries but lost the GOP nomination a century ago in a weird, transitional hybrid era.

Sweeney, a West Deptford resident and only South Jersey resident running, easily won the county party’s endorsement at its nominating convention here on Saturday. The last South Jerseyan to ...