John Thune: “Ultimately, keeping the government funded is good for the country, and hopefully we will have bipartisan cooperation to…”

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

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

I’m a realist. But I feel good about where things stand.

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.