Will there be a virtual balloon-drop? That is about the only intrigue left when it comes to what will happen at this year’s national political conventions. Even more so than usual, the chance for high ...

The convention pin era roughly coincided with the early years of the internet. National Journal’s website was for a time known as PoliticsNow, and the editors used pins to increase its name ...

Last week the Democrats managed to do what seems impossible to bring off in any modern multi-day political convention: they not only kept the attention of the 20,000 or so in the United Center, but ...

Party conventions used to nominate presidential candidates. Now that's all done in advance. Next week's Republican Party convention plans to break with tradition. Instead of waiting until Wednesday, ...

The Democratic National Convention gets underway this week. Republicans will hold their convention next week. While this year's convention is virtual for both parties, have you asked yourself what's ...

President Donald Trump is considering suggesting the Republican Party hold a convention right before the midterm elections. He wrote in a post on social media platform Truth Social that the party has ...

NEW YORK -- Black Lives Matter activists are holding their first Black National Convention Friday, a virtual event that will adopt a political agenda calling for slavery reparations, universal basic ...

Most of the state's GOP delegates were awarded through a caucus process. Former President Donald Trump has won nearly all of Michigan's delegates to be sent to the Republican National Convention, ...

Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones is facing an ethics complaint for using city resources to advance a bid to host the next Democratic National Convention. The complaint was filed July 16 by Kyle Sinclair, vice ...