The corrupt bargain between Trump and Republicans is about to unravel. November 11, 2020. The Post's Lisa Rein explains how the Trump administration is adding challenges to the transition process ...

In the presidential election of 1824, supporters of Andrew Jackson, who won the popular vote, claimed that John Quincy Adams became President through what many of them called a “corrupt bargain ...

As the Democratic Party’s presidential primary season nears its end, historians should have a sense of deja vu. For the party has followed the same path of political engineering this time around ...

The “corrupt bargain” would haunt both Adams and Clay for the rest of their careers. Adams became only the second one-term president (the first was his father), losing easily to Jackson in 1828.

It is unfortunate that the April 4 op-ed by Tom Hanks and Jeffery Robinson, “How to rig an election — with deadly, racist consequences,” perpetuated a simplistic myth of a corrupt bargain to ...

In the presidential election of 1824, supporters of Andrew Jackson, who won the popular vote, claimed that John Quincy Adams became President through what many of them called a “corrupt bargain ...