The GOP senator described the video as racist and urged the president to remove it.

Republicans clash over the filibuster as President Donald Trump and others push for the SAVE Act to require proof of citizenship to vote in elections.

Thune, one of South Dakota's two Republican senators, said Feb. 3 he is "not in favor of federalizing elections."

The remark came hours after Taylor Rehmet defeated Leigh Wambsganss in the special election for a Texas Senate seat that had been in GOP hands for decades.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) issued a plea to Republican leaders to denounce President Trump, after a video briefly depicting former President Obama and Michelle Obama as apes was pulled from Trump’s social media account.

President Donald Trump's endorsement of a Senate spending deal will likely pave the way to its passage and avert another lengthy government shutdown.

President Trump endorsed former critic John Sununu over ally Scott Brown in crucial New Hampshire GOP Senate primary that could determine chamber control.