{"id":1200835,"date":"2022-01-08T23:34:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T04:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1200835"},"modified":"2022-01-08T23:34:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T04:34:16","slug":"senate-minority-whip-john-thune-will-run-for-reelection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-minority-whip-john-thune-will-run-for-reelection\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Minority Whip John Thune Will Run for Reelection"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenate-minority-whip-john-thune-will-run-for-reelection%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1200835&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/JT-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-SD), the number two Republican and viewed as a successor to&nbsp;Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), announced he would run for reelection on Saturday, ending months of speculation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSouth Dakota deserves a strong and effective senator who can&nbsp;deliver the results they expect. I am uniquely positioned to get that job&nbsp;done, and I look forward to earning the support of all South Dakotans in&nbsp;the 2022 election for U.S. Senate,\u201d Thune said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cEach time I\u2019ve asked South&nbsp;Dakotans for the opportunity to represent them in Congress, I\u2019ve done so&nbsp;because of a fundamental desire to do whatever I could to make their lives&nbsp;and our way of life \u2013 safer, stronger, and more prosperous,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always&nbsp;promised that I would do the work, even when it was hard, uncomfortable,&nbsp;or unpopular,\u201d&nbsp;the 61-year-old added. \u201cThat work continues, which is why after careful&nbsp;consideration and prayer, and with the support of my family, I\u2019m asking&nbsp;South Dakotans for the opportunity to continue serving them in the U.S.&nbsp;Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/riLV3RU1v0\">pic.twitter.com\/riLV3RU1v0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Thune (@johnthune) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnthune\/status\/1479869691300659203?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Until his announcement, speculation swirled for months that Thune would retire. The&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/22\/report-republican-sen-john-thune-weighs-retirement\/\">reported<\/a> last month that Thune was debating giving up his Senate seat due to&nbsp;a combination of \u201cfamily concerns\u201d and the \u201cgrip\u201d former President Donald Trump has on the party.<\/p>\n<p>However, Senate Republican colleagues such as&nbsp;Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), and McConnell tried to convince Thune to run for reelection.&nbsp;McConnell told the&nbsp;<em>Times,<\/em>&nbsp;\u201cI certainly hope that he will run for re-election, and that\u2019s certainly what I and others have been encouraging him to do all year long.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cramer, who has known Thune for years, said,&nbsp;\u201cI let him know how much I appreciate him \u2026 He knows both Dakotas really need him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobmbliss\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-SD), the number two Republican and viewed as a successor to\u00a0Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), announced he would run for reelection on Saturday, ending &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1200835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1200835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}