John Thune as the next Senate majority leader ... Thune was elected to the Senate in 2004, defeating then-Majority Leader Tom Daschle, who Thune argued had lost his South Dakota roots during ...

The low-drama South Dakotan has arrived at the apex of power in the Senate just as Donald Trump is exerting his own executive authority. Will Thune draw a line?

John Thune of South Dakota to be the next Senate ... before narrowly ousting then-Democratic Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle from office in 2004. A reliable conservative, Thune chaired the ...

Two of Thune’s fellow Republican Senators competed for the position—John Cornyn of Texas and ... Thune ran a successful campaign to unseat Tom Daschle in 2004. Daschle, who was leading Senate ...

John Thune, R-South Dakota ... winning a hard-fought contest to oust then-Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-South Dakota. He previously served three terms as South Dakota’s lone member ...

SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota - U.S. Sen. John Thune was chosen by his peers on Wednesday to lead his Republican colleagues as they work with President-elect Donald Trump and an expected GOP-led House ...