John Thune: “We will continue to have an open door and we're ready to negotiate at a moments' notice.”

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.

I mean I can't defend anything that guy says or does.

If you look at Maine, in North Carolina, in Ohio, in Iowa, in Alaska, you know, it's the Indy voters, it is the middle of the electorate, and we are not talking to them when we are arguing with each other over whether or not to eliminate…

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.