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Chafee's candidacy seems targeted almost directly at Hillary Clinton and her foreign policy record – the Democratic equivalent of those conservative hawks who sought to enter the Republican primary solely to excoriate Rand Paul on the debate stage.

Jim Murphy is facing an uphill struggle to win potentially crucial leftwing support for his campaign to become Labour's leader in Scotland after the country's two biggest unions refused to back his candidacy.

While it is uncommon for divorced men to send flowers to an ex-wife, Newt owes the former Mrs Gingrich a big "thank you" after her strategically-timed interview with ABC, intended to ruin his candidacy, backfired.

On Monday Dan Jarvis, the Labour MP who disappointed many party activists by refusing to stand for the leadership, endorsed Burnham's candidacy.

Philippa Whitford, who joins 55 other SNP MPs in Westminster, the vast majority of them first-timers, was interviewed by the Guardian when she first announced her candidacy and made a prescient comment: "What strikes me is that, if we pull it off, this is going to be the most non-political group of politicians Westminster has seen for a long time.

Clinton's emphasis on courting women voters has already emerged as a central piece of her campaign, which, contrary to 2008, embraces the historic nature of her candidacy as the first potential woman president.

Following the announcement of his candidacy on Monday at a Liberty University event at which student attendance was mandatory, Cruz returned to Washington to make an appearance on Fox News.

A broad majority of European leaders support his candidacy, he said in the interview.

During the daylong conference on Tuesday, Clinton, the presumptive Democratic frontrunner for the 2016 presidential race, sketched rough parameters around her anticipated candidacy, making it clear that she won't shy away from gender issues.

When he announced his candidacy, Rudd promised "no retributions, no paybacks, none of that stuff", but Gillard, the treasurer, Wayne Swan, the climate change minister, Greg Combet, the education minister, Peter Garrett, and the trade minister, Craig Emerson, all immediately announced they were standing down from the frontbench.

Although Rubio remains an underdog in the state, the three pillars of his campaign – hawkishness on defense, a compelling personal story, and his relative youth (he is 43) – have left South Carolinians impressed and endeared them to his candidacy.