John Thune: “We need his voters and he has a tremendous amount of followers. He's trying to get through the final stage of his…”

At some point, we’ve got to get this done.

And I think at some point it becomes a decision of what can you get the votes to do.

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

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