Which Republican president was better: Donald Trump or Abraham Lincoln? Presidential historians ranked Lincoln as the nation’s greatest president in a 2017 survey, and the 16th president boasts ...

“Because the Republican Party hasn’t been the party of Abraham Lincoln since Jim Crow, since the Reconstruction, since forever. So let’s not twist history around.” ...

During the 2016 Republican presidential primary, The Washington Post's Bob Woodward and Robert Costa asked Donald Trump if he could be a "unifier" like Abraham Lincoln who expressed "'Malice ...

Who is the best Republican president between Donald Trump and Abraham Lincoln? For most Republican respondents to a recent poll, the answer is Trump. In response to the question, “Which ...

As someone who was a lifelong Republican until 2016, nothing is more surprising that, nearly three years into his tenure, Trump remains wildly popular among Republicans despite all of the tumult ...

Mr. Arango is correct that the Republican Party was started by Abraham Lincoln 160 years ago and that Southern Democrats were very supportive of Jim Crow laws until about 1980 (when they all ...

Abraham Lincoln, seen in an 1864 portrait, was ridiculed and defamed when he ran for president. ... Our first Republican president, Abe Lincoln, possessed all these traits and much more.

Eventually, disagreements about slavery led to the creation of the Republican Party and the election of Republican Abraham Lincoln to the presidency in 1860. Republicans have made critical ...

Lincoln, Blacks, and the GOP Host Tavis Smiley speaks to RNC Chairman Marc Racicot about the legacy of Abraham Lincoln and the Republican party.

In a California campaign stop Obama says Abraham Lincoln would not have fit in among this year's GOP candidates. Perhaps. But would Thomas Jefferson have made a good modern Democrat?

In 1860, when Abraham Lincoln was elected president, the Republicans were the progressives, the liberals. Democrats at that time were the ultra-conservative right. They supported slavery.

Lincoln.jpg President Abraham Lincoln. In what was to be his last annual message to Congress, on Dec. 6, 1864 , President Abraham Lincoln set out his views on immigration.