{"id":2703794,"date":"2026-11-10T18:06:02","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T23:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thune-keeps-job-as-senate-gop-leader\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T18:07:49","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T23:07:49","slug":"thune-keeps-job-as-senate-gop-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thune-keeps-job-as-senate-gop-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Thune Keeps Job as Senate GOP Leader"},"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\">14<\/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-keeps-job-as-senate-gop-leader%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=2703794&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>Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R\u2011SD) was re-elected by acclamation at a closed-door GOP meeting despite criticism from senators including Ron Johnson, Mike Lee, Rick Scott and Josh hawley, who pushed delaying the vote and demanded concrete plans to pass hard-line measures-like a third reconciliation bill and the SAVE America Act-during the Republicans\u2019 final seven weeks in the majority. Thune, Majority Leader as 2025, will become Minority Leader when the 120th congress convenes on Jan. 3, 2027.  <\/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<div class=\"c-blog-post__content s-wysiwyg s-wysiwyg--blog\">\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:30px;\" id=\"elevenlabs-audionative-widget\" data-height=\"90\" data-width=\"100%\" data-frameborder=\"no\" data-scrolling=\"no\" data-publicuserid=\"cb0d9922301244fcc1aeafd0610a8e90a36a320754121ee126557a7416405662\" data-playerurl=\"https:\/\/elevenlabs.io\/player\/index.html\" >Loading the <a href=\"https:\/\/elevenlabs.io\/text-to-speech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elevenlabs Text to Speech<\/a> AudioNative Player&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/elevenlabs.io\/player\/audioNativeHelper.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) was <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/john-thune-republican-leadership-elections-aee05eef5d85aafde6fbb27272977a14\">re-elected<\/a> to lead Senate Republicans in a closed-door meeting Tuesday. Thune had faced calls to delay the vote from several senators\u2014including Sens. Ron Johnson (R-WI), Mike Lee (R-UT), Rick Scott (R-FL), and Josh Hawley (R-MO)\u2014who have expressed frustration with his leadership, particularly following the party\u2019s disastrous showing in last week\u2019s midterm elections. During the Tuesday meeting, these GOP critics reportedly demanded concrete plans to pass hard-line legislative priorities, like a <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/6208185-gop-urges-legislative-push-before-democrats\/\">third reconciliation bill<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/saveamerica\/\">SAVE America Act<\/a>, during Republicans\u2019 remaining seven weeks in the majority. Despite this, no alternative candidate for leader emerged, and the South Dakota senator won a second term by acclamation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thune, who has been Majority Leader since 2025, will become Minority Leader once the 120th Congress is sworn in on January 3, 2027.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thune re-elected as GOP leader after critics demand plan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4475,"featured_media":2703795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/tac.imgix.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/GettyImages-2304012474.jpg?auto=compress&#038;crop=faces%2Centropy&#038;fit=crop&#038;fm=jpg&#038;h=630&#038;ixlib=php-3.3.1&#038;q=80&#038;w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[6203,50402,5894,3740,23610],"class_list":["post-2703794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily","tag-gop","tag-leadership-2","tag-politics","tag-senate","tag-thune"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/tac.imgix.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/GettyImages-2304012474.jpg?auto=compress&#038;crop=faces%2Centropy&#038;fit=crop&#038;fm=jpg&#038;h=630&#038;ixlib=php-3.3.1&#038;q=80&#038;w=1200","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703794","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\/4475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2703794"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2703798,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703794\/revisions\/2703798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2703795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2703794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2703794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2703794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}