Thune Elected. Remain Calm. All Is Well.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : They have smoothed things over recently, though, and Thune did fundraisers for Trump in this election cycle.
61% : Trump was closest to Rick Scott in this election, both in terms of mutual support during election cycle and populist positioning.
56% : Candidate recruitment played a large part in those failures, and Trump played a large part in that recruitment, but that was Scott's job.
54% : Now, however, the sheriff has ridden back into town with a big mandate, and now the caucus leaders' job is to make the best use of tactics to get what they can out of Congress for Trump.
50% : In that sense, Thune is even more attuned; South Dakota went Trump +29, while Texas was Trump +14 and Florida Trump +13.
43% : Trump's in charge of both, and not only does he know it, everyone knows it.
32% : At any rate, Trump didn't think the election was critical enough to his plans to issue an endorsement, and no one can accuse Trump of being a wallflower when it comes to his thoughts on how Congress conducts business.
28% : That may be one reason Trump stayed out the caucus election, but the main reason is that it doesn't really matter to him.
25% : Scott tried to get Trump to issue an endorsement, especially to thwart Thune, where mutual animosity had arisen in the previous four years.
2% : After Thune criticized Trump over the 2020 election aftermath, Trump tried to get a primary challenger against Thune, and Thune endorsed Tim Scott in the 2024 primary.

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