Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York said Republicans are bracing for a fight over the next two years after their drastic midterm losses.
“I think it’s a realization from virtually all House Republicans that the next two years are going to be one long fight over Donald Trump, over the Trump administration, and there’s not going to be a lot of legislating going on, at least not that any Republicans are going to be a part of,” York said Wednesday on Fox and Friends First.
While House Republicans have made some changes in leadership, electing Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) as House minority leader, the Senate has kept Sen. John Thune (R-SD) as Senate minority leader.
York said the Senate’s decision was unusual given that Republicans lost under Thune’s leadership.
“Normally the side that lost big would want to make some changes in its leadership, and that is what happened in the House, but you’re right, it’s not what happened in the Senate,” York said. “I think that it reflects the Senate as a very different institution than the House, and it also reflects that it’s a pretty thankless job to lead the minority in the Senate.”
Although several Senators called for changes, York said Thune still ran unopposed, revealing how few people wanted the job. Jordan, however, has been pushing to be in leadership for years.
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“They are going to be in a small minority, and Democrats are going to, they’re telling us they’re going to investigate every single aspect of Trump, the Trump administration, the Trump family, and there’s going to be opposition on the Republicans side and somebody’s got to lead it, and Jim Jordan has been beating for leadership for a couple of years,” York said.
Democrats won the majority in both the House and Senate and are still finalizing their leadership, with Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries as the current top contenders.
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