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Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso introduced Tuesday that he’ll run for the No. 2 spot within the Senate Republican convention after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell steps down from the highest publish on the finish of the 12 months, bowing out of the race for chief after two of his colleagues introduced they’d run.
WASHINGTON: Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso introduced Tuesday that he’ll run for the No. 2 spot within the Senate Republican convention after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell steps down from the highest publish on the finish of the 12 months, bowing out of the race for chief after two of his colleagues introduced they’d run.
Texas Sen. John Cornyn and South Dakota Sen. John Thune have introduced they may marketing campaign to interchange McConnell, who stated final week that he’ll step down from his management publish however stay within the Senate after the November elections. It has lengthy been speculated that Barrasso might run as properly, making the competition a race amongst “the three Johns.”
But Barrasso stated in a short assertion that he has had time to mirror on how he may greatest serve, and, “after a lot of thought, I will ask my colleagues for their support and help to work for them as the Assistant Republican Leader.”
Barrasso is No. 3 in management because the chairman of the Senate Republican convention. His spouse, Bobbi Barrasso, died in January after a two-year battle with mind most cancers.
The Wyoming senator’s announcement narrows the race between Cornyn and Thune, each of whom are standard with their GOP colleagues and have been loyal deputies to McConnell. Thune changed Cornyn as McConnell’s No. 2 in management 5 years in the past after the Texas Republican was term-limited out of the publish.
The race might be held after the November election. Unlike within the House, the place your complete physique votes for speaker, Senate occasion leaders are elected behind closed doorways by secret poll.
There may very well be different candidates as properly, probably from the suitable flank of the occasion that has been important of McConnell. Florida Sen. Rick Scott challenged McConnell within the final management election in 2022 on the urging of former President Donald Trump, who’s now the front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination. McConnell simply defeated Scott, who had the backing of 10 of his GOP colleagues.
On Monday, Scott posted a photograph on X, previously Twitter, of himself and Trump.
“Great to see President Trump tonight,” Scott wrote. “We’re going to continue working together to win big in 2024 and fix Washington.”
While McConnell nonetheless enjoys assist from a majority of his caucus, he has been at odds with Trump for years, significantly because the Jan. 6, 2021, assault of Trump’s supporters on the Capitol. But his political workforce has been in talks with Trump’s marketing campaign a couple of potential endorsement, in accordance with an individual acquainted with the state of affairs who insisted on anonymity to debate it.
Thune and Cornyn have additionally sparred with the previous president, however they finally endorsed him because it turned clear that he’s the seemingly GOP nominee for president this 12 months.
“I’m going to need to be able to work with the president, and I think he’s got a very good shot at being the next president,” Thune advised native information outlet Dakota News Now when he introduced his run for chief on Monday.
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