Townhall··Monday, November 9, 2026, 6:55 AM

John Thune's Push to Lead Senate Republicans Again Is Getting Bogged Down

Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) was among the first to tell Sen. John Thune (R-SD) to chill on this rapid push to elect him Senate Republicans’ leader next session. The nerve on this guy: he fumbled constantly on funding DHS, didn’t want to pass the Save America Act, and, even worse, didn’t want to nuke the legislative filibuster, which will now be erased by a rabid left-wing Democrat majority, where a…

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