by Charlotte Hazard
Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., won the post of Senate majority leader on Wednesday on the second round of voting.
He defeated Sens. Rick Scott, R-Fla., and John Cornyn, R-Texas.
Scott was eliminated in the first round of ballots cast. He received 13 votes in the first round, while Cornyn got 15 and Thune got 23, according to Fox News.
There were two write-in votes.
Punchbowl News reported that Thune won 29-24.
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Charlotte Hazard is a reporter at Just the News.
Reprinted with permission from Just the News.
Here we go again. Business as usual and the American public, Trump supporters especially, being cast off like an old raincoat by establishment Republicans. If it’s one thing Republicans are good at it’s virtue signaling and this is promising to be 2016 all over again with Rinos thwarting Trump’s agenda. The honeymoon is over before it began.
All votes by our representatives (whether they be U. S. Senators or U. S. Representatives) for anything concerning the U. S. Congress should be public votes. Otherwise, we only know what our aforesaid representatives tell us, and of course, as we all know, politicians sometimes lie. Public transparency should not be a problem if one has nothing to hide.
According to a story by Jim Hoft, posted Sunday, November 10, on The Gateway Pundit, entitled, “REPORT: Republican Internal Whip-Count for Leadership Vote on Wednesday Is LEAKED — 42 Members Support War-Pigs Cornyn and Thune — CALL YOUR SENATOR and Demand They Vote for the Republican Voter’s Choice — Rick Scott”, an internal GOP source leaked the internal whip-count for the Leadership Vote and it showed the following: 24 votes for Thune, 18 votes for Cornyn, and 11 votes for Scott. Tennessee’s two U. S. Senators were shown to be as follows: Blackburn was for Thune, and Hagerty was for Scott. For more information, see the aforesaid TGP story.