Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump's relentless recent attacks on Ted Cruz, his closest rival for the primary nomination, appear to be paying off in the Hawkeye State.

Saturday Night Live kicked off with a skit mocking Thursday night's Republican debate, poking fun at all seven candidates' performances from earlier this week.

Jimmy Kimmel parodied Trump's Freedom Kids, with a less-than-rousing performance by a trio of girls (with Vanessa Hudgens) who sang of Bush's sad showing at the polls.

The Donald took questions from reporters at a Las Vegas casino before taking the stage at the Outdoor Sportsman Awards. Earlier in the day he said Jeb's campaign 'is in the toilet.'

While Ted Cruz has been the main target on Donald Trump's radar in recent days, today Trump took some time to rib an old favorite: Jeb Bush. 'He should go home and relax!' Trump suggested.

'Cruz is going down. He's like a nervous wreck. He's going down,' The Donald said during a Las Vegas rally. He also hammered a CNN analyst who said if Trump didn't win Iowa by 10, it would be a loss.

Ted Cruz blasted out a 'Monty Python's Holy Grail' clip showing 'Brave Sir Robin' chickening out ,while Rand Paul snarked that 'the IQ of the debate went up a couple dozen points.'

Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush on Tuesday appeared to question GOP front-runner Donald Trump's Christian faith, although his campaign later backpedaled

After a second-place finish in the Iowa caucuses, Donald Trump is poised to bounce back with a crushing victory in the New Hampshire primary.

'I'd go through a process and get it declassified [as torture], frankly ... certainly waterboarding at a minimum,' the Republican presidential front-runner said.

The Republican National Committee, Trump alleged, 'told us we have all donors in the audience. And the reason they're not loving me is I don't want their money.'

'Here's the story on Jeb,' Trump said of the former Florida governor on MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' program. 'He's a stiff who you wouldn't hire in private enterprise, okay? This is a stiff.'

Donald Trump doesn't need much of a push to dole out colorful adjectives about his rivals so he happily played a game of word association this morning on Morning Joe.

'We will be worse off than we are now,' Bush warned of a Trump presidency during a South Carolina rally. 'And we are pretty bad off right now.'

Donald Trump is at an all-time high in Republican support following his victory in the New Hampshire primary. The second-place finisher John Kasich is 40 points behind him in a new poll.

Donald Trump turned on the former Florida governor during Saturday night's Republican presidential debate in Greenville, South Carolina, attacking his brother George W Bush,

The Trump clan were pictured front and center during tonight's Republican debate in Greenville South Carolina lending their support as he took on his Republican rivals.

While some suggested that last night's messy GOP debate was a win for the Democrats, Donald Trump said he knew who the real winner was – and it was him. Trump called it his 'best performance.'

Former President George W. Bush lent his brother's campaign a jolt of energy at a rally tonight in North Charleston, South Carolina, using humor to punctuate his pitch for Jeb Bush.

Jeb Bush again threw out a theory as to why he's become Donald Trump's favorite punching bag of the Republican field. 'It's because he fears me,' Bush said on CBS This Morning.

Just one day after Sen. Ted Cruz christened himself the 'new national front runner,' two new polls show that it's Donald Trump who remains the commanding leader of the Republican field.

The Republican race is down to five candidates as Bush bails and The Donald stays firmly on top with two wins under his belt.

In his first interviews since his big South Carolina win, Donald Trump was asked if he thought the nomination was in sight. 'Certainly no one's unstoppable,' Trump said.

Donald Trump keeps weaponizing his massive Twitter following against Ted Cruz, his only remaining serious rival for the Republican presidential nomination.

Jeb Bush says he won't vote for Donald Trump in November. 'Donald Trump has not demonstrated that temperament or strength of character,' Bush wrote.

Donald Trump also insisted in Friday that he's still 'self-funding' his presidential campaign even as he prepares to raise cash from big donors and the public for a final November push against Hillary Clinton.

Donald Trump brought back up the Republican Party's loyalty pledge in the wake of at least two former rivals saying they don't plan to support him – Jeb Bush and Lindsey Graham.

Jeb Bush has likened Donald Trump's infamous taco Tweet to outright racism in one of his first interviews since he stepped down from the presidential race.

Jeb Bush's son, George Prescott (pictured), has broken the family line and publicly endorsed Donald Trump as the Republican nominee during an event in Texas.

The Bush family assured President Donald Trump that he would not be attacked during George H.W. Bush's memorial service at the Washington National Cathedral on Wednesday.

'I have heard that she was nasty to me, but she should be. Look what I did to her sons,' Trump told The Washington Times in an Oval Office interview on Thursday.

Ellen DeGeneres described the 16-year-old as 'real and raw' during filming for her show in California today. The activist said it would be a waste of time to 'explain' climate change to Trump.

Nine-year-old Nandi Bushell, of Ipswich, roared as she slammed the drums to Nirvana's In Bloom. She was seen in the Argos Christmas advert and appeared on The Ellen Show.

Gwen Stefani may have rocked a huge diamond ring on the red carpet of the People's Choice Awards on Sunday night, but that doesn't mean she's engaged to Blake Shelton.

The 50-year-old singer slyly poked fun at the engagement rumors swirling around her and longtime boyfriend Blake Shelton on Monday's episode of The Voice.

Demand for tickets to see England take on South Africa in the final in Japan on Saturday has seen prices soar, with some seats costing well over £10,000 on re-sale sites (pictured, fans in London).

Donald Trump's decision to include the UK in his Europe-wide travel ban in an effort to stem the spread of coronavirus could have huge consequences for the struggling British Airways.

The President (pictured) flagged up a case in Arizona where two young men told an undercover FBI agent that they wanted to 'achieve martyrdom' in the Middle East.

NYT's publisher revealed a never-before told story on Monday where he said Donald Trump intentionally withheld knowledge that one of their reporters was going to be arrested in Egypt.

James Petford, 39, of Kings Norton, Birmingham, urinated and vomited in his seat after downing vodka and rum on a flight from Birmingham to Egypt. He has been jailed for eight months.

President Trump wrote a birthday note to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu telling him that 'there are many more victories to come'. He also added 'you are great!' in black Sharpie.

Trump said Saturday at the Israeli American Council's National Summit in Florida: 'You have to vote for me... You're not going to vote for the wealth tax... you'll be out of business in 15 minutes.'

'Symbols depicting different warriors are about as common in gun culture as hating President Trump is in the oped pages of the New York Times,' Don Jr's spokesman said Monday.

President Bashar al-Assad tells Vladimir Putin in the video from a church in Damascus, Syria on Tuesday: 'If Trump arrives along this road, everything will become normal with him too.'

The video, which was apparently recorded at Shaheed Beheshti University on Sunday, was made public as Trump warned Iranian officials: 'DO NOT KILL YOUR PROTESTERS.'

The clip shows Iranian officials planning their revenge for the killing of Qods Force commander Qasem Soleimani. They are seen storming the White House in Washington DC.

Trump stood beside newly-indicted Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House as he unveiled a plan his son-in-law has worked on for three years but Palestinians reject.

AMANDA PLATELL: Of all the pictures published in this tumultuous week for the Royal Family, one stood out for me.

Champneys allegedly failed to inform guests at its Forest Mere resort (pictured), in Liphook, West Sussex, it had a food hygiene rating of just 2 out of 5.

President Donald Trump praised Britain's Queen Elizabeth II ahead of her televised address in the United Kingdom regarding the coronavirus pandemic on Sunday.