A bloc of Senate Republicans led by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) is pushing to postpone Tuesday's GOP leadership elections, arguing that the conference needs time to examine its midterm election losses before it picks the leaders who will guide it in the minority.
Sen. Ron Johnson and Sen. Rick Scott. (Finn Gomez/Getty Images)Democrats won control of the Senate with 54 seats, and that total could climb depending on the outcomes of the races in Mississippi and Alaska. Republicans expect Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) to seek another term as the chamber's top Republican when the conference votes Tuesday morning.
Johnson made his case in a letter to Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), who chairs the Senate Republican Conference, according to a copy Fox News Digital obtained. He asked that the election wait "until we all have a chance to hear from leadership candidates as to what type of collaborative conference governing model we should adopt and what our strategy will be to counter the emboldened Democrats."
"Tuesday's result was a stunning defeat, and there are multiple reasons for it," Johnson wrote. "We need to have serious discussions within our conference as to what we can do to improve the outcome in 2028."
He also said in the letter that the conference owed itself a full debate over how each candidate intends to run the conference.
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