The race to be leader of the Senate Republicans has finally concluded.<\/p>\n
On the first vote, Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) was ruled out of the race to replace Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in the Senate.<\/p>\n
In a secret vote held Wednesday morning, none of the three candidates for the next GOP leader got more than half of the votes cast. That means senators will go to a second round, where the person with the fewest votes will be eliminated by conference rules.<\/p>\n
Sen. John Thune (R-SD) received and Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) advanced with Scott eliminated.<\/p>\n
After the second ballot of voting, Thune has been selected as the Senate Republican leader.<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, McConnell revealed that he\u2019s \u201cnot leaving the Senate\u201d and that he\u2019s focused on combating the \u201cisolationist movement\u201d within the Republican Party.<\/p>\n
During an interview with WHAS radio host Terry Meiners, McConnell vowed to use his remaining time in the Senate to hit back against GOP colleagues who aim to rein in U.S. support for foreign allies such as Israel and Ukraine.<\/p>\n
Despite his plans to step down as party leader, McConnell said, \u201cI\u2019m not leaving the Senate.\u201d He added, \u201cI\u2019m particularly involved in actually fighting back against the isolationist movement in my own party and so many others as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
McConnell mentioned Ukraine\u2019s fight against Russia, a cause to which the US has allocated tens of billions of dollars.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe symbol, lately, is \u2018are we gonna help Ukraine or not?\u2019 And I think it\u2019s extremely important that we do that,\u201d McConnell said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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