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

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

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

Eric Hovde, the Wisconsin Republican who nearly unseated Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin, acknowledged this week that he lost ...

Who are the high rollers who bankrolled Trump's 2024 election, and what do they want in return for their generosity?

Senate Republicans returned to Washington for the first time since they secured the Senate majority to determine who will be ...

Around two dozen states regularly elected both a Republican and a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in the 1970s and 1980s. Only ...

Sen. John Thune of South Dakota is set to lead the Senate as majority leader in the new Congress, after Republicans flipped ...

warned earlier this year that decentralizing the role of party leader would make the Senate more like the House, where ...

Longtime Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell is stepping down, setting up a race to replace him between John Thune of South ...

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

Last week, 29-year-old political newcomer Joe Picozzi became the first Republican state Senatorial candidate to win a Philly ...