Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., called Ohio "ground zero" for Senate control during a campaign event with Republican nominee Sen. Jon Husted in Lima, Ohio, on Tuesday night. Following remarks from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr.
Mehmet Oz, Thune praised Oz's work in rooting out waste, fraud and abuse while insisting that Republicans must hold a Senate majority to allow Oz to continue his work. "That only happens if Jon Husted gets elected next Tuesday. It seems like it is a lot of election years we come to Ohio, but this literally is ground zero.
This is the firewall in the United States Senate. It's the difference between the next two years, President Trump having to deal with Democrats in Congress, House and Senate, where all you'll be doing is investigations," Thune told the crowd. SENATE CONTROL IS A COIN FLIP — AND DEMOCRATS’ PATH RUNS THROUGH TRUMP COUNTRY Top Democrats, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and Rep.
Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., have already signaled an intention to use subpoena power to investigate President Donald Trump and members of his Cabinet. "When people ask what will we do, my answer is simple. We'll act like the Congress," Meeks, the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told the in September.
HOUSE DEMS PLOT TRUMP INVESTIGATION BLITZ IF THEY SEIZE MAJORITY "I tell people that the first thing the House will do, Democrats, if the House flips, is they'll impeach the president," Thune continued Tuesday. "Well, that will require a trial, some sort of a trial in the United States Senate. And the only difference between a 24-hour impeachment trial in the Senate and a 24-month impeachment trial is a Republican majority," he said.
DEM MAKING SENATE COMEBACK BID SAYS HE WOULDN'T SUPPORT A TRUMP IMPEACHMENT PUSH Thune then slammed Husted's Democratic opponent, former Sen. Sherrod Brown, who served as a U.S. senator in Ohio from 2007 until 2025, when he ceded his seat to Republican Bernie Moreno after losing in the 2024 election. "He proved that to us for 30 years when he was in the Senate, he was a rubber stamp for Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden.
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