He won that a little more comfortably than Daschle did, I think by five, 29 to 24 against John Cornyn. Yeah, five votes. And that's a big deal for South Dakota. It's also a big change for the country. Mitch McConnell, who he's replacing, is the longest-serving Senate leader in the history of the Senate. And so for either party. And so he held that job for 18 years. Almost all but two of the years that John Thune has been in the Senate, the Republican leader has been Mitch McConnell. (23:02–23:08)
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