Expressing a sense of inclusion for ostracized populations had become “something that he was doing quite a lot of in the last months of his life.”

Ted Cruz declared definitively on Wednesday that the fight for the Republican presidential nomination is “definitely headed to Cleveland.”

Just eight of the 21 Republican senators up for re-election this year say they’d unquestionably support Donald Trump as the party’s presidential nominee.

Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah will announce Thursday that he’s backing Cruz, sources familiar tell NBC News.

The NRSC is under fire for tweeting that Democratic Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth, injured in Iraq, “has a sad record of not standing up for our veterans.”

The push to develop an agenda that the eventual Republican nominee can embrace has been a focus of Ryan’s short tenure as speaker.

The prospect of a Trump candidacy has many Senate Republicans up for reelection balancing a tight-rope of rhetoric.

Graham mocked all of his former rivals in the Republican race to replace Obama, joking that his “party has gone bat**** crazy.”

Reid, the highest-ranking Democratic elected official to endorse so far in the race, remained on the sidelines before the Nevada contest.

Sen. Ted Cruz had been blocking the nominations of a handful of ambassadors and State Department officials out of protest to the Iran nuclear deal.