Sen. John Thune has won an internal election among Republican senators to become the chamber’s next majority leader ...

Sen. John Thune​ of South Dakota won on the second round of voting against Sen. John Cornyn​ of Texas in the race for Senate ...

John Thune, 63, defeated Sens. John Cornyn and Rick Scott in the secret-ballot vote to succeed Mitch McConnell as Senate ...

Cornyn has for years signaled he wanted to succeed his close ally GOP leader Mitch McConnell. He lost in a vote decided by ...

John Thune’s victory on a secret-ballot continued the long tradition, in both parties, of elevating small-state senators to ...

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John Thune, R-S.D., as the next Senate majority leader this week ... The Senate majority leader is one of the most powerful ...

The leadership election marks a monumental changing of the guard after nearly two decades with McConnell as Senate GOP leader ...

Thune, of South Dakota, beat out Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and Rick Scott of Florida in a secret ballot election to replace Mitch McConnell.

The outcome of the secret leadership ballot, expected after the November election, is deeply uncertain. It’s a weighty choice ...