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Mitt Romney scores a victory in Maine’s non-binding caucuses, but Ron Paul is a close second just 200 or so votes behind.
As Mitt Romney romps home, with over 42 per cent of the vote, opponents are left to wonder: how can we win now?
Newt Gingrich says he’s simply hoping for a good second place, but admits that Ron Paul could push him close there too.
The backing of the celebrity magnate may mean millions more in Mitt Romney’s coffers – but Trump won’t rule himself out yet.
Mitt Romney routed the other candidates in the winner-takes-all primary and took the opportunity to get digs in at both Obama and Europe.
The battle to face Barack Obama in the autumn presidential election steps up a gear as the sunshine state holds its primary today.
Romney called on Gingrich to apologise for a controversial ad on immigration and mocked his desire to put a human colony on the moon.
The former Cuban leader has slammed the Republican Party candidates vying for the nomination to face Barack Obama in the autumn.
One of the frontrunners for the Republican nomination for the US presidency has released his tax returns and they make for interesting reading…
Rand Paul refused to accept a pat-down search from security officials.
The final debate ahead of the South Carolina primary vote on Saturday took place last night with polls showing frontrunner Mitt Romney is under pressure.
The Texas governor is the latest to drop out of the race for the White House, giving his backing to Newt Gingrich.
The pair were separated by just eight votes after an initial count earlier this month.
The battle to be the Republican nominee reaches the conservative state of South Carolina where the first of two pre-primary debates took place overnight.
The former diplomat blames in-party mudslinging as he backs Romney – less than a week after calling him “unelectable”.
The former governor of Utah is due to make an announcement later today confirming his support for leading candidate Mitt Romney.
Voters are heading to the polls in the first presidential primary of the campaign to win the Republican nomination.
“One serial hypocrite exposed…now another has emerged.” Ooooh…sounds like a good movie.
Michele Bachmann’s fifth-place finish in the Iowa caucus prompts her to put an end to her US presidential campaign.
Neck-and-neck with Rick Santorum in Iowa, what now for the former governor of Massachusetts and the other candidates hoping to face Barack Obama in the autumn?
Mitt Romney won in Iowa after a long night for candidates and supporters. Here’s how it looked…
“Game on,” says second-placed Rick Santorum.
The first test of strength for the men and woman hoping to take on Barack Obama in the autumn got underway in the rural state of Iowa overnight
Conservative candidate Rick Santorum is surging as the first votes are cast in the contest to take on Barack Obama.
Once the most Republican of Republicans, the billionaire has officially left the party – only to ensure that Obama can be beaten next year.
Gingrich failed to qualify for his state’s Super Tuesday primary ballot.
Republican Jim Sensenbrenner sparked a scandal by saying publicly that Obama had a “large posterior”.
Poll frontrunners Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney saw their conservative credentials questioned in a fairly low-key affair unlike previous debates.
The former presidential candidate, who wasn’t entirely clear on Obama’s Libya policy, said if he could have any job in the cabinet it would be Defence Secretary. He also burst into song…
In tonight’s Fix: ‘No referendum’ on EU deal; why some people want Ireland to change time zone; and how not to flee from the police…
Mitt Romney was challenged by Texan evangelist Rick Perry during last night’s Republican debate – and responded with a big-money offer…
In the campaign spot, Perry attacks Barack Obama’s repealing of a law outlawing open homosexuality in the military but it hasn’t gone down well even in his own campaign.
The former chairman of Godfather’s Pizza and one-time poll topper has shelved his run for the White House.
It was emotional times as half of the candidates looking to be the next US president shed tears at a debate held over the weekend…
The Republican Party presidential candidate and businessman said that the accusations are all “baseless”.
In the latest gaffe by a Republican candidate, the former pizza magnate appeared to show a poor grasp on foreign policy.
He couldn’t remember his policies but he could remember all ten of these funny excuses…
The governor of Texas is facing a campaign meltdown after one of the most humiliating gaffes in US presidential election debate history.
The candidate leading polls to be the Republican Party’s nominee for US president has been hit with a series of allegations in recent days.