Can billionaire Elon Musk build a third party that lasts? We look at the odds, the obstacles, and the history stacked against ...

A Gallup poll last year found that 58 percent of U.S. adults agree that a third party is needed in the U.S. because the Republican and Democratic parties “do such a poor job” of representing ...

Central Valley lawmaker Heath Flora will take over as the new Republican leader in the California State Assembly starting in ...

After serving as the Republican president from 1901 to 1909, Theodore Roosevelt formed the Progressive Party, or "Bull Moose Party," in 1912 when he failed to win the Republican nomination for a ...

In a 2024 Gallup poll, 58% U.S. adults said a third major party is needed in the United States because the Republican and Democratic parties "do such a poor job" of representing the American people.

It hasn’t happened since the Republican Party burst on the scene in the 1850s. Even then, Americans didn’t get a third party so much as a replacement for the Whigs.

The idea of a centrist third party has been a bit of a running joke in recent years. Every cycle, someone writes an op-ed calling for a moderate bid from someone like Joe Manchin, it gets widely ...

Billionaire Elon Musk said Saturday he is forming a third political party, after a dramatic falling out with Donald Trump, indicating he will make good on threats he made if the president’s ...

But that doesn’t mean third parties don’t matter. Teddy Roosevelt’s 1912 Bull Moose Party split the Republicans and put Woodrow Wilson (the worst president of the 20th century) in office.

Independent and third-party voter registration is growing, largely at the expense of Democrats, an NBC News analysis of two decades of voter registration data shows.