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Two prominent Senate conservatives, Senate Steering Committee Chair Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), on Monday declined to commit to voting for Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) as Senate GOP leader after the party lost at least seven Senate seats in the midterm election.
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Senate Republicans on Tuesday paused their meeting to elect leaders after Senate conservatives demanded “a plan” for the lame-duck session and the next Congress when Democrats will be in the majority. Republican senators streamed out of the Old Senate Chamber after huddling in th
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Outgoing Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) declined to say Monday whether he voted for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Republican candidate in Texas’s Senate race who defeated Cornyn earlier this year in a primary runoff election, and cited Paxton’s “corruption” as a major reason
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Senate Republicans returning to the Capitol on Monday are furious with President Trump, whom they blame for last week’s big losses in Senate and House races. The anger is raising the chances that the party could pivot away from the lame-duck president in the lead-up to the 2028 p
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Sen. Dave McCormick (Pa.), a more moderate Republican from a key battleground state, is endorsing a call by conservative Senate GOP colleagues to delay the party’s leadership elections scheduled for Tuesday. “As I’ve shared with Leader Thune, I don’t believe we should move to lea
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Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) obtained the five signatures he needs from GOP colleagues to request a meeting of the broader Senate Republican Conference to discuss postponing their leadership election, which is scheduled for next week. Johnson, who chairs the Senate Budget Committee
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Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) says Democrats would block any “right-winger” President Trump attempts to appoint to the Supreme Court after they take control of the Senate, which could ramp up pressure on conservative Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas to re
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Sen.-elect Annie Andrews (D), who won a stunning victory in deep-red South Carolina by defeating Sen. Darline Graham (R-S.C.), says there needs to be “generational change” in the Senate leadership. “I still very much believe it’s time for a generational change on both sides of th
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Senate Republican candidate John Sununu says President Trump deserves much of the blame for Republicans’ blowout losses in Tuesday’s election, which will give Democrats their biggest Senate and House majorities in years. Sununu in an interview with SiriusXM’s “The John Kasich Sho
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Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) says the massive Republican defeat in Tuesday’s elections takes “a good bit of the luster” off Vice President Vance’s expected candidacy for president in 2028 and leaves the GOP presidential primary in the next election cycle “wide open.” “The