US Republican front-runner Donald Trump swept to victory in Arizona but rival Ted Cruz showed some fight with a win in Utah that gave hope to establishment Republicans who fear Trump would lead the party to ruin in the presidential election.
Ted Cruz's Super Tuesday victories in his home state of Texas and neighbouring Oklahoma strengthened his odds for the Republican presidential nomination on online betting sites but he still trails far behind Donald Trump.
White House hopefuls Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio unleashed a barrage of attacks against Donald Trump during Republican debate as they sought to halt the frontrunner's relentless march to nomination.
Relishing victory in the first Republican nominating contest of the US presidential election, senator Ted Cruz called his defeat of Donald Trump in the Iowa caucuses a tribute to “conservative grass roots”.
The US presidential race looked suddenly wide open after frontrunners Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton suffered chastening evenings in Iowa, the first step on the long road to the White House.
