WATCH: @DanaPerino on Democrats’ terrible energy record and how they really are the “arsonists holding the can and the lighter,” driving energy prices sky-high and making life worse for Americans: “I think it’s great that we’re finally, as a country, collectively talking about the fact that the Democrats have a track record on energy that you can point to. And it wasn’t that long ago that they were literally the arsonist holding the can and the lighter. And they were like, you know what, we want higher gas prices. They actually bragged about it. Jennifer Granholm talked about it. If you remember, in the green energy transition, they said [higher gas prices were] going to be better because you're going to drive less. They wanted to make your washing machines not work at all, so then you had to run them four times as long, and it was costing more for you, the consumer, while their buddies got money. How many EV charging stations did they build? Was it four? I think for the billions of dollars. So I think it's good [this is being exposed]. If you want a little bit more, one of my favorite podcasts is the @10minutedrill. You listen to it, and they lay out these things that are incredible.”

Senate Majority Leader @JohnThune on what Republicans will do if they maintain their majorities in Congress: “Once the near-term issue of opening up the strait and gas prices is resolved, what has been done to Iran and its military capability is something that will serve future generations. But there are other big things to do. If we could maintain the majorities in the House and the Senate, the sky is the limit. You’ll start right away after the election and do the defense authorization bill, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. We will have to fund the government in a more permanent way. We’ll do a bunch of nominations, judges on the judiciary, the farm bill, amending permitting reform. There’s a long list of things to do, all of which are really consequential. I think it takes bold leadership, which the president provides, and the willingness to work as a team. I think this team has demonstrated that although we have our differences from time to time, and we have our internal fights within the family, when it comes time to do big things, we come together and realize what is at stake. We have to make sure we keep these majorities intact, and hopefully, November 3rd will allow us to do that.”

.@LaraLeaTrump: “Do you think Chuck Schumer is a little worried that he will be taken over by the socialists soon?” Senate Majority Leader @JohnThune: “I think he lives in fear of that every day. I really do. I look at the way the leaders in the Senate now act. He voted once to open up the government when they were in the process of shutting it down the first time, and it just got blown up by the far left. And ever since then, it’s whatever they want. They defer to that far-left base.”

Senate Majority Leader @JohnThune on why President Trump had to confront Iran, how American energy independence will make us less dependent on the Strait of Hormuz, and Democrats becoming increasingly radical and extreme: “If you think about the choices the president had, somebody had to do it. Iran had to be confronted. That kind of evil has to be dealt with. And one way or the other, they were on their way to getting a nuclear weapon. The issue right now, of course, is getting the strait opened up and the shipping lanes opened up so commerce can be moved and the flow of energy around the world can continue. But the one thing I will tell you is that the policies put in place by the president and his administration, and working with Congress, are going to encourage more energy development and independence in this country, so we are less and less dependent on places like the Strait of Hormuz. But as you mentioned, there’s a lot of noise in politics, the Democrats continue to nominate more liberal, more radical, more extreme candidates, and that’s going to take this country in a very different direction. So even though we have the situation in the Middle East, it’s going to end, and when it does, we have set this country up with the right conditions, the right parameters, and policies for a really successful future.”

Senate Majority Leader @JohnThune on why Democrat obstruction, specifically on national security issues, keeps him up at night, and why America is on the right track under President Trump: “We have a saying in my office that if you don’t get national security right, the rest is conversation. You've got to protect the country. So, funding our military, the defense authorization bill, the Democrats have locked it from even getting on the floor — historically, that has been bipartisan. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which is critical to our intelligence community and the things they do to protect the country. Those are the kinds of things that keep me up at night. … The trajectory that we are on is a country when it comes to economic policy, national security, the border, all these issues, we are headed in the right direction.”

Senate Majority Leader @JohnThune rattles off the list of Republican accomplishments and highlights the stark contrast between Republicans and Democrats: “If you go down the list of things the Republicans have gotten done starting with the Laken Riley Act, the HALT Fentanyl Act, the TAKE IT DOWN Act, major housing legislation, Working Families Tax Cuts legislation — which has 100 different bills in it, No Tax on Tips, no tax on overtime, reduced taxes for seniors on Social Security, expanded child tax credit — made permanent, indexed for inflation — and it’s allowing people to have more money in their pockets, and we are seeing that and we will see more of that. If you go on the opposite track, these Democrats have lost their minds. These are people who will take us a very leftward direction for our country, and what that means is higher taxes, more spending, more government, higher costs, and open borders — I mean, that’s what you get with Democrat leadership. With Republicans, you are going to get lower taxes, you’re going to get a better regulatory framework, you’re going to see safer streets, you’re going to see new opportunities to get ahead for your family, and just better economic opportunity for the country.”

Senate Majority Leader @JohnThune BLASTS Democrats for blocking common-sense legislation, calls them the “party of no”: “They are the party of no. They don’t want to give Republicans or the president a victory, particularly this close to the election… But I think if [voters] think about the choices in front of them on which path is better for the future of their family or country and the economy and national security, it’s pretty clear [it’s Republicans].”

.@kyleopeterson on the implications that the Supreme Court’s ruling in Suncor v. Boulder could have on state powers: “If they decide on some kind of broad rule about not letting states regulate outside of their territory, that could have real significant effects even beyond the climate context…”

.@AllysiaFinley breaks down the “compelling” constitutional arguments in front of the Supreme Court in Suncor v. Boulder: “I think this is probably the more compelling argument that the Framers of the Constitution devised it such that one state could not control activity outside of its borders or that wholly occurs outside of its borders. And that is essentially what Boulder County and other states and localities that are suing these companies are trying to do. They are trying to regulate activity, in this case, emissions or production, outside of their borders. They're trying to essentially hold companies liable for producing oil and gas in Texas or Alaska and other states. And this is really kind of what the Commerce Clause was intended in part to prevent.”⁩

As Suncor v. Boulder awaits a landmark hearing at the Supreme Court on Monday, @AllysiaFinley lays out why states have “really no authority” to regulate or tax global emissions: "Well, I don't think they're going to do a punt... I think the case is ripe... That AEP decision, I think that's a very clean way that the Supreme Court could go if they want to rule in favor of the oil and gas companies would be just to say the AEP decision is controlling here in terms of the Clean Air Act does preempt states. This is a national issue, and the Congress gave the EPA authority over emissions and controlling emissions. So states have really no authority to try to regulate or, for that matter, tax global emissions outside of their borders."

.@kyleopeterson breaks down energy producers’ constitutional arguments in Suncor v. Boulder ahead of Monday's major Supreme Court hearing: “They say the audacious attempt to use state tort law to address the effects of global climate change is incompatible with the structure of the Constitution. They go on to say that states are co-equal sovereigns; they have competing claims; states lack the power to regulate conduct beyond their borders.”

.@RonforMNAG slams Democrat Minnesota AG Keith Ellison over sweetheart deals for fraudsters, lays out his plan to lock them up: “People need to go to jail. Nobody's afraid out there. There are no repercussions… Here’s how people go to jail: You prosecute people by charging them with at least three felony counts of fraud over $35,000, and then you refuse to enter into sweetheart plea agreements, because if you then try these cases — and you’ve got to remember, I approach this job and will approach this job as a trial lawyer and not as a politician… If you get a conviction on three felony counts for theft above $35,000, which is relatively easy to do given the scope of the fraud here, there's the mandatory prison sentence under the state sentencing guidelines if you look at the grid.”

.@RonforMNAG on why he’s running for Minnesota AG to replace scandal-ridden Democrat Keith Ellison: “I’ve got three grandchildren that live in this state, and I prefer that they grow up in a state that looks a lot more like the one that I grew up in and was known as the Land of 10,000 Lakes and not the state as it’s currently known as the Land of 10,000 Frauds.”