It is the third consecutive year the GOP has claimed the majority; a shift during the Trump era of American politics.

The Republican ... party, according to a poll published Thursday. The Gallup survey shows 46 percent of respondents either consider themselves a Republican or a Republican-leaning independent ...

In foreign policy, the Republicans leaned toward France, which had supported the American cause during the Revolution. Jefferson and his colleagues formed the Republican Party in the early 1790s.