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

Sen. John Thune was privately backed by President-elect Donald Trump, Steve Daines told his colleagues, despite Trump's ...

Sen. John Thune was privately backed by President-elect Donald Trump, Steve Daines told his colleagues, despite Trump's ...

John Thune’s victory on a secret-ballot continued the long tradition, in both parties, of elevating small-state senators to ...

The outcome of the secret leadership ballot, expected after the November election, is deeply uncertain. It’s a weighty choice ...

Thune, of South Dakota, beat out Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and Rick Scott of Florida in a secret ballot election to replace Mitch McConnell.

Discover how John Thune rose from small-town South Dakota basketball courts to become a powerful figure in the U.S. Senate ...

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

Yet some of Thune’s own views — political and personal — don’t sync up with the leader of the Republican Party, ...

Republicans have elected South Dakota Sen. John Thune as the next Senate majority leader, completing a momentous shift in their leadership that elevates a top deputy of Mitch McConnell into a key ...

The South Dakota senator prevailed over John Cornyn and Trump ally Rick Scott in the vote Wednesday.

Senator John Thune has been in Congress for nearly three decades. He was first elected to the US House of Representatives in ...