Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell announced he would step down from his leadership post earlier this year, ending his historic ...

President-elect Donald Trump congratulated Sen. John Thune on winning election to the role of Senate majority leader, ...

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

Thune beat out two other competitors, Sens. John Cornyn and Rick Scott, by gaining majority support from GOP senators in a ...

It was the first seriously contested Senate Republican leadership election in decades. Three senators were competing to ...

Sen. John Thune of South Dakota was elected the next Senate GOP leader, and will become the Senate majority leader in January ...

Republican Sen. John Thune of South Dakota was elected new Senate majority leader, replacing Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky ...

The future of Donald Trump’s second term in office will be shaped inside a closed room in the United States Senate on ...

U.S. Sen. John Thune of South Dakota was chosen by his peers to lead his Republican senators in the 119th U.S. Congress.

U.S. Senate Republicans elected John Thune to lead the chamber next year, opting for a well-regarded insider and shrugging ...

But he lacked the biggest and most influential endorsement of all — Trump himself, who stayed neutral in the three-way race ...

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