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Good morning, everyone. It's Playbook co-author Eugene Daniels. It's Thursday, November 14th.

Almost Friday. But what does that mean anymore? Here's what's driving the day.

Yesterday was election day for Republicans on Capitol Hill. Don't worry, it's not Groundhog Day

for you all. On the Senate side, South Dakota's John Thune was elected to succeed Mitch McConnell

as GOP leader come the new year. Thune, the sitting Republican would beat out Texas Senator

John Cornyn on the second ballot. Rick Scott, the Florida Senator, and favorite of much of MAGA media, was eliminated in the first round of voting.

Replacing Thune as Welp will be Wyoming's John Barrasso, and Arkansas's Senator Tom Cotton will be the new chair of the Senate Republican Conference.

Tim Scott will be the leader of the NRSC,

the campaign arm for Senate Republicans. On the other side of the hill, Mike Johnson clinched

the GOP nomination for another term as Speaker of the House, but he ain't popping a little champagne

bottles just yet. The real test will come in January.

When he'll face a formal vote on the House floor, we've seen how those have gone in the past.

You're going to want to watch conservative hardliners who have signaled they're not going to make it easy on him.

For now, though, the top three House Republicans are poised to return to their spots.

Tom Emmer will return as

whip, Steve Sclease, as majority leader. And with Elise Stefonic, the House GOP's number four,

nominated for the UN, there's a new chair of the House GOP conference, Congresswoman Lisa

McLean of Michigan. But even amid the flurry of action on behalf, the biggest story in Washington

continues to be President-elect Donald Trump, whose latest picks for cabinet posts have left

many Republicans excited, some steaming, confused, dazed, or a combination of bar four.

Here we're not talking about folks like Marker Rubio, whose nomination as Secretary of State

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