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Please enter a legitimate e mail tackle.<\/span><\/p>\nHaving bother? Click right here.<\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nEXCLUSIVE: <\/strong>GOP Sen. John Thune of South Dakota says he is stepping up his efforts on the marketing campaign path this 12 months as a result of “this is our golden opportunity” to win again the Senate majority.<\/p>\n“It\u2019s kind of really a make-or-break moment for Republicans in the Senate. If we don\u2019t get it done this time, the next two cycles aren\u2019t great for us,” Thune stated in an unique nationwide interview with Fox News.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Thune, who as Senate minority whip is the No. 2 GOP lawmaker within the chamber, emphasised that “we\u2019ve got to maximize the opportunity we have this time around to get north of 50,” including that “it would be great to get well north of 50.”<\/p>\n
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Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., the Senate minority whip, campaigns on behalf of Pennsylvania’s GOP Senate nominess Dave McCormick in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on Monday.<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nDemocrats, as they attempt to preserve or prolong their fragile 51-49 majority within the Senate<\/u>, are enjoying loads of protection as they defend 23 of the 34 seats up for grabs in November.<\/p>\n
One of these seats is in West Virginia, a deep crimson state that former President Trump carried by practically 40 factors in 2020. With average Democrat-turned-independent Sen. Joe Manchin, a former governor, not searching for re-election, flipping the seat is almost a positive factor for the GOP.<\/p>\n
Republicans are additionally aiming to flip seats in Ohio and Montana, two states Trump comfortably carried 4 years in the past. And 5 extra Democrat-held seats up for grabs this 12 months are in essential general-election battleground states.<\/p>\n
“We\u2019re hoping we\u2019re going to have the White House, that Trump will be successful, and the House, and if we can get the Senate, we\u2019ll be in a position to do some things,” Thune emphasised.<\/p>\n
6 KEY SENATE SEATS REPUBLICANS AIM TO FLIP IN NOVEMBER<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n Thune says he is doing “everything we can” to assist fundraise and marketing campaign on behalf of Republican Senate nominees difficult incumbent Democrats “to get as many of these folks across the finish line as possible.”<\/p>\n
The senator \u2014 who’s one among two prime contenders to succeed longtime Senate GOP chief Mitch McConnell, who’s stepping down from his management submit on the finish of the 12 months \u2014 was interviewed forward of a two-day marketing campaign swing earlier this week in Pennsylvania with GOP Senate nominee Dave McCormick.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019ve been out with a lot of the candidates,” he famous.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, proper, campaigns with Pennsylvania’s GOP Senate nominee Dave McCormick, left, in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, on Monday.<\/span> (Friends of John Thune)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThune stated he made stops earlier this summer season on the marketing campaign path in Arizona, Michigan and Ohio, and he attended six fundraising occasions within the nation’s capital final week for GOP Senate candidates earlier than heading to Minnesota on Thursday to headline one other finance occasion for Eric Hovde, the Republican Senate nominee in neighboring Wisconsin.<\/p>\n
And he stated that he’ll be heading to Nevada and Utah later this month.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Doing whatever we can to help the team, and a lot of that is just getting money in the bank so they can get their message out,” he stated.<\/p>\n
As is custom in presidential election years, the battle on the prime of the ticket can affect Senate races one notch down the poll.<\/p>\n
Asked how the substitute of President Biden with Vice President Kamala Harris on the prime of the Democrats’ ticket impacts the Senate races, Thune stated that “there\u2019s no question it\u2019s a new race, and our Senate candidates have to do the best they can to benefit from what happens at the top of the ticket.”<\/p>\n
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FRESH NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n But he additionally emphasised, “I still think the issue set is the same, and I think it\u2019s going to be very hard for [Harris] to try and distance herself from the border and the inflationary spiral that\u2019s been created by their policies\u2026 I think those issues are going to weigh heavily on voters’ minds. So if it’s about the issues, I think we are really well positioned to win and that should help down-ballot, too.”<\/p>\n
Thune highlighted that GOP Senate candidates want “to run their own campaigns and define their opponents and define themselves in a way that creates a contrast. I\u2019ve always maintained that elections are about differences, and the differences couldn\u2019t be more stark between the two parties\u2026 I think our candidates have to capitalize on that.”<\/p>\n
At the highest of the ticket, Trump has more and more attacked and insulted Harris over the previous two weeks.<\/p>\n
But Thune is cautioning Senate candidates to not stray from the problems and “don’t take the bait” from the presidential race.<\/p>\n
Republicans wasted an ideal alternative in 2022 to win again the Senate majority they misplaced within the 2020 elections. But Thune emphasised that “our side is doing a lot better job targeting voters this time around and making sure that we\u2019re turning out and getting people to the polls way better than we did two years ago.”<\/p>\n
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