John Thune: “I certainly hope there are enough wise and thoughtful Democrats who understand that doing away with the legislative…”

Unfortunately, I think after two government shutdowns that have extended for a long period of time, it’s better for everybody if there’s predictability, certainty, and just to take that issue off the table.

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

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.

We have to win this race…we're going to need all the hands on deck.