Posted on 11/13/2024 11:01:30 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) formally joined the Senate Republican leadership team on Wednesday, having won an uncontested bid to become the vice chair of the Senate GOP Policy Committee.
Lankford ran unchallenged for the position and will replace Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), who moved up to become chair of the committee.
As vice chair, Lankford is chiefly tasked with keeping the minutes at the weekly Tuesday policy luncheon.
The move into leadership came after an eventful past year for the Oklahoma senator, who was the chief GOP negotiator on the bipartisan border package that was swiftly rejected by conservatives early this year.
Nevertheless, Senate GOP members did not take issue with Lankford himself as he remained highly thought of throughout much of the conference despite the failed bill.
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The Senate is the GOPe “Redoubt”
I’m betting the Senate GOP leaders do almost as much to hinder Trump as the DEMs will.
Lankford AYFKM!!!! That traitor border bill DB!!!!!!!
Nobody else ran. Can’t really complain if only one guy stood up to take responsibility.
Because the RINOs still rule the Senate.
That’s for damn sure, putting a Moron like Lankford into any sort of position.
Stupid, venal, and servile. That’s what the old guard GOP values.
Trump has about 18 months to get most of his legislation done.
Maybe but if MAGA doesn’t even run, that’s a waste.
Not a lot of MAGA in the Senate.
He gave Kamala and the democrats their ONLY (albeit totally phony) case for border control!
Republican Rino Senators signaling once again that it is going to be business as usual and not a strong “Republican” effort to get Trump’s agenda done. I know my two Rino Senators from Wy (Loomis & Barrasso) voted for Thune and Langford so neither will get my vote again.
one word for langfart: PRIMARY
oklahoma deserves much better
Trump’s number one task even before the border is to clean house in the Senate.
This monster doesn’t belong within 100 miles of the Senate.
Langford SOLD US DOWN THE RIVER ON IMMIGRATION AND THE BORDER.
VOTE HIM OUT !!!
I am not pleased with pulling staff out of Congress. Why take he chance of these fellows being replaced by Democrats or squish Republicans. Pull enough senators and Representatives and his Congress will be Democrat until replacements can be elected or appointed and it is only an assumption that the replacement will not be a Democrat or a McConnell-Thune “Republican.”
He is still an idiot. Nothing will change that.
And he is up in 2026. Unfortunately Thune isn’t until 2028.
The author of the Democrat amnesty bill. Wonderful. Looks like 2017 all over again.
Ugh! 😠
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