Thune Urges Trump Not to Weigh in on Senate Majority Leader Race
Senate Communications Subcommittee ranking member John Thune, R-S.D., a candidate to become the chamber's majority leader in the next Congress, said Thursday he thinks President-elect Donald Trump shouldn’t endorse a candidate in that race. “It's probably in his best interest…
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to stay out of that,” Thune said during an appearance on CNBC's Squawk Box. Thune, the Senate Republican whip, is seen as having an edge in the GOP leader race against former Whip John Cornyn of Texas and Sen. Rick Scott of Florida. Senate Republicans were guaranteed to have at least 52 seats in the chamber Thursday. News organizations still hadn’t projected a winner Thursday in the Nevada Senate race between Democratic Senate Commerce Committee member Jacky Rosen and Republican challenger Sam Brown (see 2411060043), but the incumbent had a lead of almost 13,000 votes, with 93% of the tally counted. The battle for control of the House remained unresolved Thursday, with Republicans having 210 seats and Democrats 195. Some news organizations declared House Communications Subcommittee member Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, the winner Thursday in her reelection bid against Democrat Christina Bohannan, but the Associated Press and CNN were among those not yet declaring the vote count final. Miller-Meeks continued to lead Bohannan by 799 votes as of Thursday, with 99% of the tally finished.