Mike Pence

Three  of Trump’s cabinet-in-waiting — vice-president-elect Mike Pence, secretary of foreign affairs contender, Newt Gringrich, and Michael Flynn, pegged for National Defense Council, all want to strengthen ties between Washington and Ankara.

U.S. vice presidential hopefuls Tim Kaine and Mike Pence launched into their only debate of the campaign Oct. 4, immediately clashing on the reputations, experiences and policies of their bosses chasing the White House.

Ted Cruz and John Kasich have agreed to join forces to try to deny frontrunner Donald Trump the Republican Party's presidential nomination, their campaigns said April 24.

The sudden alliance, revealed in short statements, arose due to the pressing timing of the Republican party's presidential primary season.

Republican U.S. presidential hopeful Ted Cruz won all 14 delegates at stake on April 16 in Wyoming, besting rival Donald Trump, who made little effort to win the rural state, and further narrowing the gap in the race for the party's nomination. 

The top contenders in both the Democratic and the Republican presidential nominating races have roughly equal support among members of their respective parties, according to a national Reuters/Ipsos poll released on April 12. 

Republican Ted Cruz easily won the Wisconsin presidential primary on April 5, dealing a blow to front-runner Donald Trump's hopes of amassing enough delegates for the party's nomination and boosting chances of a rare contested convention. 

Former U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney attacked 2016 Republican front-runner Donald Trump as "a fraud" on March 3 and urged primary voters to keep the outspoken New York billionaire from getting the nomination, paving the way for possible horse trading at a party convention in July. 

Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton took big steps toward securing their parties' presidential nominations  on March 1 with a series of state-by-state victories, but their rivals vowed to keep on fighting.

On Super Tuesday, the 2016 campaign's biggest day of nominating contests, Trump, 69, and Clinton, 68, proved themselves the undisputed front-runners.