John Thune: “I would say my view here is that the gentleman from Wyoming wants to explain his point of order. There is no objection…”

I’m a realist. I don’t ever try and sugarcoat things. I think it’s a competitive environment right now.

But because Texas is such an expensive state, we’re going to need the president and his team to be engaged there and to be putting resources into that race.

If the result is only achieved by nuking the legislative filibuster, we don’t have the votes to do that and so that’s not a — that’s just not a realistic option

There's been enough uncertainty this last year, and, you know, unfortunately, I think through two government shutdowns that extended for a long period of time, it's better for everybody if there's predictability, certainty.