John Thune: “We're not looking backwards. We're looking forward.”

If you look at Maine, in North Carolina, in Ohio, in Iowa, in Alaska, you know, it's the Indy voters, it is the middle of the electorate, and we are not talking to them when we are arguing with each other over whether or not to eliminate…

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

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

By scrambling the Democrats, we’ll spread their resources thin, making it nearly impossible for them to flip the seats they need to take the majority.