South Dakota’s Thune voted Senate majority leader

Two decades after John Thune ignited his political brand by knocking off Democratic Senate Leader Tom Daschle in South Dakota’s momentous 2004 U.S. Senate race, he will assume the Republican leadership role himself.

South Dakota’s senior senator won the job in a secret ballot among GOP senators Wednesday in Washington, snuffing

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