Ted Cruz presidential campaign

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that it was not the time for a political debate on gun control in the wake of the mass shooting in Las Vegas that killed 59 people and injured more than 500 others, Reuters writes. 

Donald Trump seized the mantle of Republican standard-bearer for the 2016 presidential election late May 3, sending his only serious challenger Ted Cruz crashing out of the White House race.

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. 

Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz split victories in four nominating contests with front-runner Donald Trump on March 5, bolstering Cruz's argument that he represents the party's best chance to stop the brash New York billionaire. 

U.S. Republican rivals Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz ganged up on front-runner Donald Trump at a raucous debate on Feb. 25 in a last-ditch bid to keep the billionaire from winning victories next week that could set him up to clinch the presidential nomination.

Republican candidates in the White House race will face off in Nevada on Feb. 23 in a caucus that will mark the first significant test of where they stand with Hispanic voters.

Hillary Clinton narrowly won the Democratic caucuses in Iowa, outpacing a surprisingly strong challenge from Bernie Sanders to claim the first victory in the 2016 race for president.
     
The former secretary of state and first lady edged past the Vermont senator in a race the Iowa Democratic Party called the closest in its caucus history.
     

U.S. Senator Ted Cruz soundly defeated billionaire Donald Trump in Iowa's Republican nominating contest on Feb. 1, upending the party's presidential race and creating a three-way competition with establishment candidate Senator Marco Rubio. 

U.S. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump and top challenger Ted Cruz clashed sharply on Jan. 14 over the Texas senator's eligibility to run for the White House during a tense debate weeks before voters start to pick the party's nominee. 

Billionaire Donald Trump has extended his lead over the Republican presidential field, while Democratic overall frontrunner Hillary Clinton now trails underdog Bernie Sanders in the key early voting state of Iowa, polls showed on Sept.10.