John Thune
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33 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Nov 2024
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Well, I'm uh I'm hoping we end to have other options.
chosen um preference in in the Senate?
Do you do you know, Senator?
And and will that come into play?
I don't
Well, I don't know that he does.
I I'm um stay in regular uh contact uh with him and with his team and um you know, obviously if he wants to, he could uh exert a considerable amount of influence on that.
But uh honestly I think my preference would be and I think it's probably in his best interest to stay out of that.
These uh Senate uh secret ballot elections are probably best left to senators and and he's gotta work with all of us when it's all said and done.
But
Uh whatever he decides to do, that's gonna be his prerogative as we know.
Because we know.
And I think there's a
And but I think we gotta we're gonna have that election next Wednesday and we'll have a new leader.
Well, I mean I think that uh there are lots of different opinions on US involvement in Ukraine.
But I think the majority opinion among Senate Republicans is that uh the United States had a has a vital national security interest there in stopping Russian aggression.
And uh and that's certainly the view I have.
I will say this.
Any idea that somehow if we get majorities next year and we get the White House, that this gets done um with the Republican majority of the Senate, I think is is doesn't understand the Democrats.
There will the Democrats will not give us will not give us anything close to this uh if we have to get sixty votes in the United States Senate in a Republican majority.
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