United States Senator John Thune will become the next Majority Leader of the US Senate after winning two rounds of votes amongst his peers.
The Republicans retook Congress's upper chamber in last week's election, and have picked the seasoned South Dakota Senator to spearhead the party.
In Wednesday's contest he narrowly overcame John Cornyn of Texas, and convincingly beat Florida's firebrand conservative Rick Scott, who was the preferred candidate amongst Donald Trump's closest allies.
From Washington, Benji Hyer reports.
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