Senate conservatives push to delay leadership election - Live Updates

POLITICO · Jordain Carney · 2026-11-05 22:32 UTC

Senate GOP elections are expected to happen Tuesday.

Senate conservatives are pushing to delay internal leadership elections, which are expected to go forward as scheduled Tuesday.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said Thursday he is collecting signatures to send a letter to leadership calling for a conference meeting before Senate Republicans move forward with their closed-door leadership election.

“We need to delay that. We need a robust discussion — I always call them a postmortem — of what happened. You just can’t, ‘Oh, let’s elect this leadership team by acclimation.’ That’s unacceptable,” Johnson told The Clay & Buck Show.

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