(12 Nov 2024)
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Washington DC – 12 November 2024
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1. Various U.S. Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell with the new GOP senate members
2. Wide, McConnell with the new GOP senate members, zooms to McCormick
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Mitch McConnell, U.S. Senate Minority Leader:
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"As all of you know, I’ll be leaving this office after 18 years. I’ve been the majority leader. I’ve been the minority leader. Majority is a lot better. And I’m so happy that all of our new members are here to create that majority and give us a chance to make the kind of changes for America that the voters voted for."
4. Pans to Tim Sheehy and Jim Banks
5. Pans to John Curtis and Dave McCormick, pulls wide
STORYLINE:
Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell meets newly elected Republican senators as Congress returns to Washington.
As lawmakers return this week they will be joined by dozens of new names in the House and Senate who are in town for freshmen orientation weeks and the private leadership elections scheduled for Wednesday.
But Republican senators were protesting that one of their own, newly elected Dave McCormick of Pennsylvania, was excluded from orientation week by Senate Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer because there are still uncounted ballots in his race.
Schumer’s office had said it is custom to wait until all the ballots are counted but has since invited McCormick.
Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego, who won his race, also has been invited.
Meanwhile, the Senate leadership race to replace outgoing GOP Leader Mitch McConnell is turning into a test of Trump loyalties, with the president-elect’s allies — including billionaire Elon Musk and Make America Great Again influencers — pushing the senators to elect Sen. Rick Scott of Florida.
But Scott has not been the most popular candidate for the leadership post, and senators had been rallying around the two “Johns” — Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, the second-ranking GOP leader, and Sen. John Cornyn of Texas.
The outcome of Wednesday’s private balloting behind closed doors is highly uncertain.
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