Welcome, welcome to IHIP News, where we share our opinion about the news that is important to us as we watch the United States of America rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.

All right, listen, we have some interesting news that we kind of want to discuss.

So Trump and his acolytes were really pushing Florida Senator Rick Scott to be the Senate

majority leader.

And it looks like there was a little revolt within the Republican Party and they did a little

voting behind closed doors. And the South Dakota Senator John Thune has been elected in somewhat

kind of a blow to MAGA from within the party.

Yeah, I mean, it's a slight glimmer of hope that maybe that there really are some

non-Maga Republicans left.

Although I think John Thune is, don't by any stretch of the imagination, do I think he's

going to buck the Trump all the time.

I'm not saying that.

But on social media, Trump made it very clear.

He wanted a Senate majority leader that would not require his cabinet nominees to be confirmed by the Senate, a regressive candidate, as it were.

And Rick Scott raised his hand the fastest.

He said, oh, that's me.

Pick me.

I won't.

I'll go against everything we've ever done in the United States Senate before for you.

And so the Republicans went behind closed doors.

And what I found also interesting was out of the three candidates that put their name in the hat, Rick Scott was the first to go.

They voted him out first and then they brought it down to a Texas senator and John Thune.

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