Sen. John Thune was privately backed by President-elect Donald Trump, Steve Daines told his colleagues, despite Trump's ...

Senate Republicans are expected to debut their new leadership team in a press conference around 2:00 pm, after selecting a ...

Senate Republicans have elected Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., as the new Senate majority leader as longtime top Senate Republican ...

The South Dakota Republican failed in his first try for the Senate but came back to defeat a chamber leader. Now he will be ...

Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), the newly appointed Senate majority leader, sought to quell any doubts among the GOP that he can’t ...

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

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

Congressional leadership: Republicans elected South Dakota Sen. John Thune as the next Senate majority leader. Meanwhile, ...

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 ...

United States Senator John Thune won the secret ballot making him the new Republican Senate Leader and the majority leader of ...

Republicans in the House and Senate elected their leaders Wednesday after securing a trifecta — winning the House, Senate and ...