John Thune: “I thank Chairman Ben Ray Lujan and Ranking Member John Thune, as well as the other esteemed members of the subcommittee.”

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.

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

We absolutely have to win that race so everybody is all in for Ken Paxton.

If you want to have a Republican Senate majority after the election — is not to have us turning fire on each other, but drawing contrasts with Democrats.