Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) stonewalled the president’s agenda, blocked many of his nominees, and refused to approve the one act that could have prevented the mass Democrat fraud and election rigging of the midterms. Yet Senate Republicans just selected him again as minority leader.
It seems pretty obvious Senate Republicans are there only to benefit themselves personally rather than to represent their constituents or prevent evil Democrats from controlling the country. Perhaps the reason Thune and others didn’t campaign with many candidates in vulnerable races and even undermined Ken Paxton in Texas is that they prefer to have none of the responsibilities of party control, but all the financial benefits and connections of being minority senators.
BREAKING: Sen. Majority Leader John Thune has been re-elected by Senate Republicans and will serve as Senate Minority Leader in the new Congress when Dems take power. Senators Barrasso, Cotton, Capito, and Lankford have all also been re-elected to their positions. Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) will now serve as NRSC Chairman instead of Sen. Tim Scott.
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) November 10, 2026
Thune restricted military funding workarounds and blocked recess appointments, which means that Democrats will now get to control who is in numerous positions and how much funding the Iran blockade gets. Thune wouldn't pass the spending workaround that the House sent up to keep immigration enforcement going full steam, instead preferring to wait around for Democrats to dictate budget provisions. Worst of all, he would not push for the Save America Act or support the House workaround of putting it in a budget resolution.
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There is data in a U.S. Election Assistance Commission report showing about 20 million new voter registrations in states that don't verify citizenship at registration between 2022 and 2024. Coincidentally, Democrats reportedly obtained about 19 million new votes between 2022 and 2026. And Democrat states have repeatedly fought the Trump administration in court to prevent investigations that would clear noncitizens from the voter rolls. California outright said it would count at least 20,000 noncitizen ballots. The Save America Act could have been the solution, but Thune and his fellow useless Senate RINOs wouldn't pass it.
A longtime political advisor once told me that some top Republicans dislike being in the majority and having all that responsibility, preferring to whine about Democrats while pursuing their own personal projects. It is certainly true that when Democrats control Congress, they manage to pass an excessive amount of unconstitutional and highly destructive legislation, while when Republicans are in the majority, they somehow always have excuses about their inability to accomplish anything meaningful. For decades, many Republican politicians have secured election by talking tough during elections and delivering none of their promised reforms. That's how we got to the point where Democrats are so in control of our election system, media, education system, and courts that they could sweep the midterms despite Republicans receiving more votes than in 2022.
Democrats play for the long term. They imported hordes of U.S.-hating foreigners, changed the census to count illegal aliens in congressional apportionment, made our elections super vulnerable to fraud, infiltrated every major institution, and poured staggering amounts of money into ads on every platform. Dems plan not just for the next election but for the next 10 elections. Meanwhile, Senate Republicans reelected Thune and plan to change absolutely nothing about their doomed-to-failure behavior. God help America.
