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

A look at the three candidates: Thune, 63, defeated then-Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle in 2004 after arguing during the campaign that Daschle had lost his South Dakota roots during his years in ...

Republicans have elected South Dakota Sen. John Thune as the next Senate majority leader, completing a momentous shift in ...

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.

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

With Republicans in control of the Senate, they have now just elected their new Senate majority leader, South Dakota Sen. John Thune. He will be the first new Republican Senate leader since Mitch ...

The Republican party has chosen their new Senate majority leader, John Thune of South Dakota. Who is this low-key politician, ...

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 ...

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

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

S.D., as the next party leader, launching a new era for the GOP after nearly two decades with Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., ...