After the US election: John Thune will lead the Republicans in the US Senate

After their election victory, the Republicans in the US Senate elected John Thune as the future majority leader of the parliamentary chamber. This is what several US media outlets reported unanimously about the vote for the top post, in which Senators John Cornyn and Rick Scott were unable to secure a majority.

The 63-year-old Thune has been in the Senate for the state of South Dakota for almost 20 years. There he is part of his party’s leadership circle. Trump’s allies recently tried to get the radical Senator Scott from Florida elected to office. The 71-year-old is an ardent Trump supporter and would have been a less traditional choice for the post than Thune. However, Thune also loyally supported Trump and his plans. He is not considered an opponent of the US President-elect.

In the US election last week, the Republicans secured a majority in the Senate. The Democrats will still be in charge in the chamber until January, with Republican Mitch McConnell as his party’s minority leader. At the beginning of the year he announced that he would give up his top office.

Thune became involved in politics early on. In 1997 he became a member of the House of Representatives and in 2005 he was elected senator. Thune initially criticized Trump for his attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, in which Trump lost to Democrat Joe Biden. But he quickly fell in line behind Trump again and visited him, for example, at his property in Florida. In the spring he voted for billions in aid for Ukraine, which was attacked by Russia.