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US election 2016: Cruz and Sanders fight back against front-runners US election 2016: Trump and Clinton remain front-runners
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Front-runners Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have suffered defeats in the latest round of voting for the US presidential nomination in five states. US presidential hopefuls Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have maintained their status as front-runners in the latest round of voting for their party's nomination.
In the Republican race, Texas Senator Ted Cruz beat billionaire Mr Trump in both the Kansas and Maine caucuses. Despite defeats to Ted Cruz in Kansas and Maine, Republican Mr Trump won in Louisiana and Kentucky.
In the Democratic race, Bernie Sanders has reportedly beaten Mrs Clinton in Kansas and Nebraska caucuses. Other Republican contenders Marco Rubio and John Kasich made little progress.
Mr Trump and Mrs Clinton are expected to triumph in the Louisiana contests, with Mr Trump also ahead in Kentucky. Mrs Clinton lost to Bernie Sanders in the Democratic races in Kansas and Nebraska, but won in Louisiana.
Overall, Mr Trump is ahead in the Republican race. Mrs Clinton, a former secretary of state, leads the Democratic contest. Mr Cruz now appears to be the only candidate who can stop Mr Trump, analysts say, after a week in which the Republican establishment did everything it could to attack Mr Trump.
Efforts by Republicans to slow Mr Trump's march have until now failed. US elections: Results as they come in
Last week, on Super Tuesday, Mr Trump won seven of the 11 contests. Observers also point out that Mr Cruz and Mr Sanders both won in caucuses but appear to have lost in the Louisiana primary elections, involving far more voters.
Evangelical vote The Democratic race in Louisiana - comfortably won by Mrs Clinton - also appears to have exposed Mr Sanders' lack of support among African-American voters.
Speaking in Idaho, which votes on 8 March, Mr Cruz said: "What we saw in Kansas is a manifestation of a real shift in momentum." "God bless Kansas," Mr Cruz said during a rally in Idaho, which votes in three days. "The scream you hear, the howl that comes from Washington DC, is utter terror at what we the people are doing together."
On Friday, Ben Carson, who was at one point a Republican front-runner, dropped out of the race. Earlier, at a rally in Florida, Mr Trump said: "Everyone's trying to figure out how to stop Trump."
The election itself, on 8 November, will see America vote for a successor to Barack Obama, a Democratic president standing down after two terms in office which have seen the Republicans take control of both houses of Congress.The election itself, on 8 November, will see America vote for a successor to Barack Obama, a Democratic president standing down after two terms in office which have seen the Republicans take control of both houses of Congress.
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