COMMENT: Seriously, it's entertainment. For Trump and his supporters, it's entertainment. The presidency will be entertainment for him and them.

COMMENT: We're venturing into the unknown. There have been demagogues in American politics before, but none became a major party's presidential candidate.

Twitter and Instagram users lampooned Ted Cruz today for accidentally elbowing his wife Heidi in the face, moments after dropping out of the presidential race.

Donald Trump has essentially clinched the Republican nomination with his main rival Ted Cruz pulling out of the race.

Ted Cruz, the insurgent Texan whose presidential campaign was fueled by disdain for Washington, dropped out of the 2016 race, removing the last major hurdle in Donald Trump's quest to become the Republican nominee for president.

Faced with the prospect of Trump versus Clinton, many Republicans will come around to supporting him

"You mean, I can win and the guy that comes in third place or fourth place ends up getting more delegates than me?"

Hillary Clinton took her general-election playbook against Republican hopeful Donald Trump for a test drive with one of her core constituencies: black voters.

COMMENT: As you read this, I am embarking on a great adventure: hunting down and understanding the kinds of Americans who support Donald Trump.

Congressional Republicans are beginning to accept, and even embrace, an outcome that was once unthinkable: Donald Trump as the GOP presidential nominee.

COMMENT: Did it begin at a dinner where Trump was the butt of jokes by President Barack Obama and comedian Seth Meyers?

Republican Donald Trump says that Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton is only doing well in the election because of her gender.

US politics used to influence Europe. Now we may be about to witness the opposite - the flow of political tricks from East to West

COMMENT: There has been some debate among New Zealand political commentators about whether a candidate like Donald Trump could emerge in New Zealand, writes Stephen Mills.

Don't look now, but Donald Trump has made moves in the past week that are, wait for it, actually quite smart.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Sunday that while he thinks he will win the delegates needed to get the GOP nomination, the system is still "rigged" and "corrupt.

It's Republican hopeful Ted Cruz who has team with a history of religious bigotry and attacks on Islam, writes Arnold R Isaacs.

COMMENT: Surely Americans are today scratching their heads, or more likely pulling the hair out of them, when they consider who could possibly be leading them for the next four years.

The 2016 US presidential race is widely seen as the social media election. But there is another form that is also surging.

Usually it is fine not to have any idea what you are talking about. But for a presidential candidate it can be a little awkward.

COMMENT: You knew it was a bad night when Donald Trump turned down the cameras. No gloating press conference. No stream-of-consciousness rant.

With tensions having greatly escalated between the two Democratic presidential candidates, Bernie Sanders sat down with the Washington Post yesterday.

The question, as always with Trump, is how much he listens to anyone not named Donald J Trump.

COMMENT: The US President holds mankind's fate in his or her hands, which is why we all have a stake in this election, writes Paul Thomas.

Democrats turn on each other as Sanders lists Clinton's failures and she rubbishes his policy ideas.

The year's biggest, wildest show is finally coming to Broadway. The presidential primary is descending on New York.

Future of GOP frontrunner's campaign likely to hinge on how Trump reacts to second-place finish in Wisconsin.

COMMENT: By economically crushing Mexico, he'll force the Mexican government to build the wall - and once the wall is built - he'll ease back on some tariffs, writes Rachel Smalley.

The beliefs and associations of Senator Ted Cruz, and the negative impact of those beliefs on his possible Presidency, will soon have a much-deserved meeting with the daylight, writes Richard McLachlan.