Senate Republicans Double Down On John Thune’s Failed Leadership
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., on Tuesday pushed back an effort to slow a leadership vote and emerged as commander of the Senate’s soon-to-be significantly diminished Republican conference.
Despite losing at least seven GOP seats and the majority in a gruesome midterm, 31 Republican senators thought it a good idea to go ahead with the conference leadership election. Facing no challenger, Thune will now become the leader of a minority party that lost control because it failed to deliver on the America First agenda that so many of its globalist, RINO members abhor.
Failure rewarded. Lessons not learned.
Many of the same Republicans are laying the blame for the blue wave that swept them out of power entirely at President Donald Trump’s feet. They’re “furious,” The Hill reports.
Thune’s compatriots were returned to their posts as well, including Sen. John Barrasso, R.- Wyo., as whip, Tom Cotton R-Ark., as conference chairman, Shelley Moore Capito, R-W. Va., policy committee chair, and James Lankford, R-Okla., to serve as conference vice chairman.
The frustration from the conservatives who tried to slow the runaway Thune train was palpable, too.
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., who led a group of Republican senators asking the conference to delay the leadership vote, said he didn’t participate in Tuesday’s election “because a defeat of this magnitude demands serious reflection and change.”
“Holding a rushed election ignores the message our voters sent. We must acknowledge where and why we failed and develop strategies to succeed,” Johnson wrote on his X account.
“I hope our conference can unite, learn from this moment, and do a better job listening to the American people and addressing their concerns,” Wisconsin’s senior senator added.
