Yet when the Democratic Party presidential primaries were over, Carter came away with a massive lead in delegates, winning 2,239 compared to Wallace’s 57 and California Governor Jerry Brown’s 301.

In the early months of 1976, New Jersey's Democratic Party establishment did not roll out a welcome mat for Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn. But a 27-year-old Ruth Puglisi — now ...

Jimmy Carter was the last Democratic presidential candidate to win Texas, but his defeat after one term heralded his party’s decline in the Lone Star State.

Jimmy Carter was born at the height of Jim Crow. ... Carter has, since his own defeat for reelection in 1980, often stood to the left of the Democratic Party on domestic and foreign policy issues.

Gallery: Jimmy Carter: the making of a Rock & Roll President. ... We also have to credit the effort of both the Democratic Party and outside groups in reaching out to likely Democratic voters, ...

A former Democratic lawmaker who led a last-ditch effort to unseat President Jimmy Carter at the party’s 1980 national convention said Friday that President Biden seeking a second term is “crazy” and ...

Jimmy Carter took full advantage of the enhanced primary system in 1976 and went all the way. ... His antipathy to the establishment extended even to his own Democratic Party.

Jimmy Carter and the Iowa Caucuses needed each other. While Carter’s team sketched out possible avenues to victory in Iowa, then-Iowa Democratic Party Chair Tom Whitney sought his own path to ...

Jack Schlossberg, grandson of John F. Kennedy, and Jason Carter, grandson of Jimmy Carter, told the Democratic convention on Tuesday that Kamala Harris was the natural heir to their ancestors ...