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

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

Senate Republicans have selected a new Senate majority leader to succeed Mitch McConnell, the longest-serving Senate party ...

Sen. John Thune has won an internal election among Republican senators to become the chamber’s next majority leader ...

Cornyn has for years signaled he wanted to succeed his close ally GOP leader Mitch McConnell. He lost in a vote decided by ...

Senate Republicans will elect a new leader for the first time in 17 years on Wednesday. Originally thought to be a two-person ...

John Cornyn is running to succeed Mitch McConnell after years waiting in his shadow. But the far-right, in Texas and ...

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

WASHINGTON – Senate Republicans have elected Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., as the next Senate majority leader after rejecting ...

In the first seriously contested Senate Republican leadership election in decades, three senators are vying to replace ...

Sen. John Cornyn's bid to lead the Senate Republicans falls short, and lacked support from his fellow Texan in the upper ...

GOP Whip John Thune of South Dakota was elected by the Senate Republican Conference to succeed Mitch McConnell as leader in a ...