On Wednesday, Republicans voted to elect Sen. John Thune to succeed Mitch McConnell as Senate Majority Leader.
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.
Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) won the election to become Senate majority whip on Wednesday, cementing him as the No. 2 leader in the Republican conference for the foreseeable future.
Barrasso was uncontested for the post, having served for six years as Senate GOP conference chairman and in control of the Republican message. He won the role by acclamation, according to a source with knowledge.
He can serve upwards of six years in the role.
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Ditto to charlie Kirk. Neither Thune or Cornyn are among the grassroots favorites as I see them.
Here we go with the DC Estd vote again
I’d rather have Scott.
They are a dying breed of losers and still do not understand it yet.. The people made a mandate to clean up this Uni-Party BS, and it had better be cleaned up.. Thune is just another McConnell minded RINO that will hinder President Trump’s agenda.. The people needs to stop this before it gets started.. This will be like Paul Ryan as the House Speaker stepping all over President Trump during his first term.
Scott is a TRUE MAGA / TRUMP supporter.
the other 2 are well known RHINOS who, up until few weeks before the election, were saying Trump would not win.
Why the heck were those two losers even given consideration?
Exactly. They just voted for a Rino to replace a Rino. Disgusting.
This is the thought process of our Senators! They seem agreed to stifle MAGA! These are the Republicans! We’ll need some changes made in the mid-terms. Rick Scott was by far the best choice!