Senate Republicans keep Thune despite big loss because minority leader is a ‘thankless job’: Byron York
- Newsrooms
- 40
- Last 3 hours
- 1 report
- Momentum
- Steady
1 in the 3 before
Cooling
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Where it’s heading
Probably peaked. Likely 41 newsrooms by 10:37am AEDT. Calls like this were right 93% of the time. How we knowAgainst the past week
One of the ten biggest stories of the past week (number 7 of 4148).Related
1Senate Majority Leader John Thune was reelected as the Republican leader on Tuesday and will steer the conference through their time in the minority. The South Dakotan ran uncontested despite a push from some of his colleagues to delay the leadership elections following Republicans’ stunning defeat
Washington Examiner didn’t include a summary, so this is Roll Call’s, from its report on the same story.3
Background: Byron York
Byron York is an American conservative correspondent, pundit, columnist, and author.4
The story so far
40 newsroomsCooling- Reports
- 48
- Newsrooms and sources
- 40
- Last 3 hours
- 1
Cooling: well below its busiest stretch (1 in the last three hours, 1 in the three before).
First with it: Independent Journal Review, 15 hr 43 min before anyone else.
Reported by 40 newsrooms.
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Reports a day, last 7 days
| Day | Reports |
|---|---|
| Sat | 0 |
| Sun | 0 |
| Mon | 0 |
| Tue | 0 |
| Wed | 2 |
| Thu | 41 |
| Today | 5 |
Where the coverage is from
How it spread
- Newsrooms
- 40


