Donald Trump has risen to probable nominee status through an extraordinary ability to tap into the deep fears and anxieties of millions of Americans.
Reuters/Scott Audette
The impact of a Trump presidency is basically unknown. No serious candidate in the post-second world war period has been so unclear in their attitude to foreign policy.
Reuters/Aaron Josefczyk
Is it time to think the unthinkable? Could Donald Trump actually become the next president of the United States? He already looks a certainty to become the Republican nominee – something not many pundits…
A young Bernie Sanders supporter wears his heart on his sleeve.
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Our global newsroom responds to the Super Tuesday primary results in the race for the Republican and Democratic presidential nominees.
Chris Christie and Donald Trump react to Super Tuesday results.
Reuters/Scott Audette
We are moving toward a general election that could be even more divisive than the primaries.
They sure did.
EPA/J Pat Carter
One outsider movement candidate ran riot, while another seemingly crumpled.
Michael Vadon and Gage/Skidmore
Political science has held that being moderate gets a candidate votes in the presidential election. So how then do Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump fit in?
Could he soon start flagging?
Andrew Cline
Trump doesn’t have it in the bag yet, but there are still ways he can triumph.
The world is watching.
EPA/Gary Coronado
It’s easy to dismiss the Republican contest as a parochial brawl, but one of its belligerents could be the world’s most powerful person.
Dark times for the Republican party.
EPA/Pete Marovich
Donald Trump could be the next president of the United States. Wanna bet?
Beware Trojan horses.
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Trump’s bellicose rhetoric belies his own family’s troubled migrant past.
Marco Rubio, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz speaking over each other at the debate.
REUTERS/Mike Stone
The 10th Republican debate offered a chance for establishment candidates to slow Donald Trump’s momentum just five days before Super Tuesday.
Donald Trump with his sons Donald Jr and Eric after winning the Nevada caucus.
Reuters/Jim Young
Nevada gave Trump his third victory and a widening lead over his GOP rivals. It’s not his conservative values winning votes.
Despertando.
Reuters/Kevin Lamarque
All the anti-immigrant rabble-rousing appears to be backfiring.
A Trump supporter celebrates in South Carolina.
REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Five takeaways from Trump’s South Carolina win.
Rubio (second from left) waves along with South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (second from right), U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy (far left) and U.S. Sen. Tim Scott (far right).
REUTERS/Chris Keane
South Carolina is a red state. The GOP candidates know that a win here can lead to the party nomination.
Neither here nor there.
Reuters/Tony Gentile
When Pope Francis issued his unexpected on the Republican frontrunner, he did little to make the choice facing American Catholics any easier.
A Harper’s Weekly cartoon of German emigrants boarding a steamer in Hamburg, Germany, 1874.
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Anti-migrant rhetoric is running high in the US – but its star proponent would do well to think about his German roots.
Ted Cruz speaks at a rally in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
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Is ‘chutzpah’ actually – as Ted Cruz claimed – a New York word? And what’s with the candidate’s insistence on distancing himself from New York City?
Rod Webber before a Marco Rubio rally in Exeter, New Hampshire.
REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
NH’s election laws allow people to vote in the primaries even if they are not registered with one of the parties. How pivotal are these unenrolled voters? We look beyond the exit polls for answers.
Obama delivers remarks at the Islamic Society of Baltimore mosque on February 3, 2016.
REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
The president gave an encouraging and inclusive speech to American Muslims, but he may have picked up the cause too late.