He was groomed by Mitch for years to take over. Scott and Cornyn wanted it so bad but Thune was always going to win. Remember - the Republican leader in the Senate controls 1 or 2 big PACS, and they don't really use them to help fund just any old R candidate. They use it to keep their RINO friends in the Senate.
That's why the Texas senate race was so expensive - Cornyn is in their little clique of power. The PACS could've used it to fund candidates that needed major funding to overcome an incumbent, but they knew Paxton would kill Cornyn once Hunt was no longer in the race taking votes from Paxton that could've kept us from having a run-off.
Trying to remember how he got the job of majority leader to begin with . . .
He was groomed by Mitch for years to take over. Scott and Cornyn wanted it so bad but Thune was always going to win. Remember - the Republican leader in the Senate controls 1 or 2 big PACS, and they don't really use them to help fund just any old R candidate. They use it to keep their RINO friends in the Senate.
That's why the Texas senate race was so expensive - Cornyn is in their little clique of power. The PACS could've used it to fund candidates that needed major funding to overcome an incumbent, but they knew Paxton would kill Cornyn once Hunt was no longer in the race taking votes from Paxton that could've kept us from having a run-off.