John Thune: “We’ll see what the future holds, but the goal right now is to get into the appropriations process.”

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.

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.

There's still a lot of stuff that's piled up, trying to get through.