Sen. John Thune Elected Senate GOP Leader
Thune will become Senate Majority Leader in January when Republicans take control.
Senate Republicans chose Senate Minority Whip John Thune (SD) as the party’s new leader in the chamber.
Thune will become Senate Majority Leader in January when Republicans take control.
The contest between Thune, Rick Scott (FL), and John Corbyn (TX) did not yield a majority in the first round.
Scott, who received a lot of push from conservatives, received the least votes and dropped.
In the second round, Thune got 29 votes compared to Corbyn’s 24.
🚨 BREAKING: SEN. JOHN THUNE ELECTED SENATE MAJORITY LEADER pic.twitter.com/osdOnpccoO
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Boo!
Ahhhhh! You scared the living daylights outta me.
you got daylights ??
fancy !
Boob
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The Senate needs a complete makeover
Democrats got their “John”.
Johnny Cuck.
Well… now he gets a chance to prove us wrong.
The Deep State Lives.
It will be difficult to advance Trump’s agenda with Thune as the leader in the Senate. He’ll make sure that McConnell’s Uniparty losers get the committee leadership.
The only hope is a real pushback from voters making it known that a RINO agenda won’t be acceptable.
I agree. We GOP voters have to get better about voting in primaries. Too many of these clowns are too comfortable appeasing the left, because they know our primary turnout is dismal.
We just did by electing Trump. The Deep State doesn’t care about elections, though.
We’ll see soon enough who’s bitch he is 🤔
Tell me, how can the current senate bind the next senate to their poor decisions? I say hold a new election come january and ignore any protests or attempted commands from this guy. Ignore him and vote again.
If I remember correctly each party caucuses in closed session to vote for their senate leader. It’s done every two years or if the current holder dies or resigns. I know in the house they can challenge to change leadership, I’m not sure if the senate has that history as well, but since party leadership is extra-constitutional there should be no legal reason not.
The current senate didn’t decide anything. It can’t decide who the majority or minority leaders should be; only the majority and minority can do that.
The GOP leader for the next two years was elected by the incoming GOP senators; there’s no reason to suppose their votes will change come January.
We need a public service campaign to get GOP voters to participate VERY ACTIVELY in primaries. Texas and S.D. have no excuses for Cornyn and Thune still being in the Senate.
Get your acts together!
You would have to find someone in South Dakota who has fame and incredible popularity well beyond that of politics (something that Trump enjoyed in spades) because whoever challenged Thune would get outspent 20:1. I don’t think normies have any idea how well bought Thune is by special interests. They would spend any amount of money to protect their LONG TERM investment in Thune. The same goes for Cornyn as well. This is compounded by the fact that the Senate Leadership PAC (or whatever it’s called now) is obligated to defend current Senators from primary challengers. It’s why it’s so incredibly difficult to primary a sitting Senator. I can’t remember the last time it’s been done in either party.
Great point which may necessitate using the nuke option of installing a d/prog in a general election. Would absolutely suck to hand over a Senate seat to the d/prog BUT if there was a sufficient majority and a favorable election map that wouldn’t risk control of the.Senate then maybe it would be a good object lesson for the establishment that no seat is truly safe and for them to be wary of PO the base too much.
Just a little nitpick. It’s Cornyn not Corbyn.
Serious Question: Can someone explain how the 118th Congress can elect leadership for the 119th Congress? Doesn’t it seem logical that the members of the 119th Congress – who are yet to be sworn in – should be the ones who elect they’re leadership? Why is Mitt Romney voting on who next year’s Senate Leader is?
the newly elected Senators were there to vote
OK. That makes more sense.
I believe the idea is that there should be no null offices, that is there will always BE an X, even if party caucusing takes forever to blow white smoke out the chimney. They can’t just keep the old one, since he might have lost his seat. But I certainly agree a new congress should be able to re-caucus for the party leadership. I know the house can.
The incoming senators voted, so there’s no reason to suppose any of them will change their minds in two months.
Mini-Mitch
Quick comment about who voted in the leadership elections. They didn’t deviate from past practice. Participants are the senators who will be around next year, and that includes the newbies who are in town for orientation week. None of the senators who are calling it quits participated, so that means people like Mitt Romney did not vote. Lastly, the elections are always done by secret ballot.
Ah, thanks for the info….
So the guy with the leadership position will be working against the reason he’s there.
Thune is a McConnell protege and an acolyte of the DC establishment. As is Cornyn. This is why the focus for Senate needs to stop being about whether folks like Susan Collins of Maine are gonna go full MAGA…she ain’t, a majority of Maine voters don’t support that.
Instead we gotta do a better job of finding, supporting and electing the most MAGA/tea party candidate who can win Statewide in Red States like SD and TX. Thune and Cornyn are definitely NOT the most right wing candidates who could win in their respective State.
With Thune in the Senate and Johnson in the House, we have lost two out of three already.
And we haven’t started.
The first round vote was Thune 23, Cornyn 15, Scott 13. So two people didn’t vote in the first round, but did in the second. I don’t know how to explain that. And Scott came 2 votes short of staying in the running.
Once Scott was out, I’m glad Thune beat Cornyn.