Posted on 11/13/2024 9:33:23 AM PST by MikelTackNailer
Senate Minority Whip John Thune will be the new Republican Senate leader and the majority leader of the upper chamber in the new Congress.
In January, he will succeed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who is the longest-serving party leader in Senate history.
Sources told Fox News Digital that no candidate reached a majority on the first secret ballot. Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., received the least amount of votes and was knocked out of the race. The second secret ballot was between only Thune and Cornyn.
The senator received at least 27 votes from the 53-member conference during a secret ballot in the old Senate chamber on Wednesday morning.
Each of the candidates made a final pitch to their fellow Republican senators late Tuesday night during a forum held by Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah.
Scott walked out of the meeting with two new public endorsements from both Lee and Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn. A source familiar told Fox News Digital that Blackburn had asked multiple questions during the discussion, including "how they would give conservatives a more meaningful voice in the Senate and for specific details as to how they would immediately implement President Trump’s mass deportation operation."
Prior to the elections, Thune had received public endorsements from Sens. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., Mike Rounds, R-S.D., Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., John Hoeven, R-N.D., and a source confirmed to Fox News Digital that National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) Chairman Steve Daines, R-Mont., was privately encouraging other senators to support Thune.
Scott had the most public support, with Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, Ron Johnson, R-Wis., Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., Rand Paul, R-Ky., Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., and Marco Rubio, R-Fla., also backing him.
Cornyn had only received one public endorsement from Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo.
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Now the deep-state can control who Trump appoints to Attorney General and the FBI.
Worse the same or slightly better than Mitch?
At least not cornhole. Guess we just got a message from the swamp rinos.
I wish they would wait until the next crew is sworn in.
If he effs w/ DJT, he’ll be gone. (R) = Trump these days.
Or do the newbies get a chance before they’re sworn in?
How would they do that? By not confirming his appointments?
Yep. It’s all over. Hey, when you call Donald to tell him to go home and forget it, tell him I said, ‘Hello!’
McConnell is all smiles. I wonder who decided that it would be a secret ballot?
The corrupt GOPe prevails.
All the Country Club RINOs care about is staying in office and becoming wealthy. What is good for the country and its citizens is a tertiary concern at best.
Why is it secret?
We are their bosses! They work for us.
What would it take to force another vote? Say a month or two in it has become clear Thune is undermining Trump and kick the American electorate in the teeth for defying the elites. There must be a mechanism to force a new vote - what does it take?
What are you even talking about?
“Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.”
Thune will be known as a HERO or TRAITOR of the MAGA movement within days of him becoming Majority Leader in the first days of January.
All eyes will be on him.
Plausible Deniability
Better than Cornyn... but not much.
Apparently reports that Scott was a distant third to Thune and Cornyn were accurate. I’m no Thune fan, but Cornyn is a Republican only because Texas can’t elect Democrats. So this is a win of sorts, I guess. What we really need is someone who will force more votes on bills, or at least votes on filibusters.
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