John Thune: “To think that, if you look at constitutionally, the Article I responsibility that we have and the power of the purse…”

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.

There's still a lot of stuff that's piled up, trying to get through.

The election ought to be painting a contrast between us and the Democrats and not creating conflicts with fellow Republicans.

I think we have a bunch of stuff we have to finish and we’ll just stay until we finish it.