{"id":2367436,"date":"2024-11-11T17:47:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T22:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thune-praises-trump-and-gop-unity-ahead-of-secret-ballot-vote-for-senate-leader-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-11-11T17:47:36","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T22:47:36","slug":"thune-praises-trump-and-gop-unity-ahead-of-secret-ballot-vote-for-senate-leader-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thune-praises-trump-and-gop-unity-ahead-of-secret-ballot-vote-for-senate-leader-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Thune praises Trump and GOP unity ahead of secret ballot vote for Senate leader &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/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%2Fthune-praises-trump-and-gop-unity-ahead-of-secret-ballot-vote-for-senate-leader-washington-examiner%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=2367436&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--><p>Senator John Thune (R-SD)\u2064 expressed strong support\u2064 for \u200dPresident-elect \u2062Donald Trump and emphasized the importance of unity among \u200cSenate Republicans in anticipation of the upcoming secret ballot vote for \u2062the next Senate leader. Thune,\u2062 who is running for Senate majority leader against Senators Rick\u2064 Scott (R-FL) and\u2064 John Cornyn (R-TX), outlined his vision for \u200ba GOP-controlled \u200cSenate in a Fox News \u2062op-ed. He stressed the need for Republicans to deliver on Trump\u2019s priorities to maintain voter support and outlined\u200b goals such\u2062 as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-gov-greg-abbott-claims-first-win-in-title-42-border-battle\/\" title=\"Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Claims First Win in Title 42 Border Battle\">enhancing border security<\/a> and reducing regulatory burdens. Thune cautioned that merely reversing the policies of\u200c the Biden\u2063 administration would not suffice, indicating that a\u200d collaborative effort among Republicans is essential for success in the Senate. He acknowledged potential disagreements within the party but \u2064underscored \u2063the necessity for collective action \u2062to\u200c fulfill their \u200cmandate.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Thune praises Trump and GOP unity ahead of secret ballot vote for Senate leader<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1876983\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/john-thune\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">John Thune<\/a> (R-SD) blasted out his praise of President-elect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a> and Senate Republicans&rsquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3225739\/trump-focuses-loyalty-immigration-administration-transition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">agenda<\/a> ahead of the vote for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3226159\/maga-world-jolts-senate-gop-leader-race-rick-scott\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">next leader<\/a> of the upper chamber.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Thune is running for Senate majority leader in a three-way race against Sens. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/rick-scott\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Rick Scott <\/a>(R-FL) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/john-cornyn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">John Cornyn<\/a> (R-TX). In an op-ed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/sen-john-thune-modern-republican-party-our-mandate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">published<\/a> in Fox News, Thune laid out his plans for the GOP-controlled Senate where Republicans have a &ldquo;mandate to govern.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We cannot afford to take this coalition for granted. If we fail to deliver on President Trump&rsquo;s priorities, we will lose their support,&rdquo; he wrote. &ldquo;They have trusted us with their votes. Now we have to roll up our sleeves and get to work.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Thune hinted at how he would plot the course for the Senate under his leadership, including ensuring Trump &ldquo;has the necessary tools and support to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-strategist-u-s-has-lost-confidence-in-joe-biden-heading-into-a-recession\/\" title=\"Democrat Strategist: U.S. Has &#039;Lost Confidence&#039; in Joe Biden, &#039;Heading into a Recession&#039;\">enforce border security laws<\/a> and to remove the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">violent criminals wreaking havoc<\/a> in every state&rdquo; and taking &ldquo;a hatchet to the regulatory apparatus choking our economy.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He still said undoing work from the &ldquo;Biden-Harris-Schumer Democrats is not enough.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have an ambitious agenda, and it will take all of us &mdash; each and every Republican &mdash; working together with President Trump&rsquo;s leadership to achieve it,&rdquo; Thune wrote. &ldquo;If we don&rsquo;t successfully execute on our mandate, we risk losing the coalition that swept Republicans into office up and down the ballot.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Thune said the GOP &ldquo;will have disagreements along the way&rdquo; but that when those disagreements arise, the party &ldquo;must listen to each other and keep working toward serving the people who gave us this mandate.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Democrat Party will shun or cancel anyone who challenges liberal orthodoxy,&rdquo; Thune wrote. &ldquo;This Republican Party listens to our voters and celebrates the marketplace of ideas.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Typically, the fight for the Senate&rsquo;s reins is an internal affair, though this iteration has been spilling over into the public sphere. Thune and his rivals don&rsquo;t have to convince voters to support them, as only senators-elect and returning senators can cast their support for someone to lead the upper chamber. <\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3226159\/maga-world-jolts-senate-gop-leader-race-rick-scott\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">over the weekend<\/a>, several Trump allies tried to turn up the pressure on voters to contact their senators and tell them to cast a vote for Scott. The Florida senator emerged as a last-minute contender for the role but is also considered the staunchest Trump ally in the running.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1876983\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1876983\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thune lauds Trump and GOP unity before Senate leader vote<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2910,"featured_media":2367437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/John-Thune-scaled-1024x682.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[35080,44813,44772,23610,3634],"class_list":["post-2367436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-gop-unity","tag-secret-ballot","tag-senate-leader","tag-thune","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/John-Thune-scaled-1024x682.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367436","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\/2910"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2367436"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2367440,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367436\/revisions\/2367440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2367437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2367436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2367436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2367436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}