I count 28 R states = 56 R senators if the 17th repealed.
But I think you are making an unwarranted assumption that all of the 56 would pick Republican Senators.
In the 90s the CA legislature had a Republican majority, and Willie Brown was elect3ed speaker.
You seem to think that the R4epublican party is "conservative." For the people in charge, the purpose of the Republican Party is to serve Democrats.
Freudian slip. I meant Lynn Cheney.