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The 2016 Republican Party Platform declares: "We support the right of the United States citizens of Puerto Rico to be admitted to the Union as a fully sovereign state. We further recognize the historic significance of the 2012 local referendum in which a 54 percent majority voted to end Puerto Rico's current status as a U.S. territory, and 61 ...
American electoral politics have been dominated by successive pairs of major political parties since shortly after the founding of the republic of the United States. Since the 1850s, the two largest political parties have been the Democratic Party and the Republican Party—which together have won every United States presidential election since 1852 and controlled the United States Congress ...
The Republican Party, also known as the Grand Old Party (GOP), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.It emerged as the main political rival of the then-dominant Democratic Party in the 1850s, and the two parties have dominated American politics since then.
Democratic pessimism about the party's future is at its highest point in eight years, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. Republicans, on the other hand, are riding high and have the ...
Democrats have long been known as the party of the working class, but the GOP may be taking over that title — at least according to Gallup poll data.. Since 2022, Republicans have been more ...
A view of the U.S. Capitol, following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's bid for immunity from federal prosecution for 2020 ...
The Democratic Party at this time did not advocate a single ideological system but was composed of several competing populist factions that opposed the Republican Party. [34] The Democrats adopted a reformed view of democracy in which political candidates sought support directly rather than through intermediaries such as political machines. [35]
The modern Democratic Party emphasizes social equality and equal opportunity. Democrats support voting rights and minority rights, including LGBT rights. [citation needed] The Republican party passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 after a Democratic attempt to filibuster led by southern Democrats, which for the first time outlawed segregation ...