‘Voting for John Thune is indefensible’: MAGA cautious ahead of Senate leadership election – Times of India
President-elect Donald Trump has not endorsed any of the three GOP candidates for Wednesday’s Senate leadership election — John Thune, John Cornyn and Rick Scott, though the MAGA supporters are throwing their weight behind Scott and urging the senators to not vote for Thune and Cornyn as voting for them would be indefensible. Trump only made one condition for the Senate leader that whoever becomes the leader must allow recess appointments. Recess appointments are the president’s ability to fill federal vacancies that occur while the Senate is in recess.
Influential MAGA figures are sharing John Thune and John Cornyn’s past anti-Trump posts.
“A vote for John Thune is a vote to memorialize the “anniversary” of the January 6th hoax. I cannot believe this statement is real. But it is. Republican Senators, do not do this,” MAGA commentator Benny Johnson posted sharing Thune’s Jan 6, 2022 statement.
“Having seen firsthand the violence and lawlessness of January 6 2021, I’m committed to doing whatever I can to prevent something like it from ever happening again,” Thune wrote.
In 2016, John Cornyn posted, “I am disgusted by Mr Trump’s words about women: our daughters, sisters and mothers.”
Elon Musk held a poll over who should be the Senate Majority leader and in his X poll Rick Scott emerged as the winner with 65.5 per cent votes. Elon Musk also endorsed Rick Scott and called John Thune a top choice of the Democrats.
As the RINO (Republican in name only) wing of the party is supporting Cornyn and Thune, a claim went viral on social media that Senator Ted Cruz would be voting for Thune. A list of senators and whom they are voting for also went viral.
Senate Majority leadership election on Wednesday
Senate Republicans will vote Wednesday by secret ballot to select a new leader who will replace outgoing Majority Leader Sen Chuck Schumer when Republicans take control of the Senate in January. Republicans won control of the upper chamber in Tuesday’s election, winning 53 seats to Democrats’ 46, after Democrats held a 51-49 majority during the last two years.
