Their agenda would be guaranteed death come the next majority." As a result, Republicans have been open about the fact that there aren’t enough of them who are willing to make such a move. Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) told Politico this summer that more Republicans oppose the so-called nuclear option than are willing to say so. Of that group, more than a dozen of the Republicans are still serving in the Senate today, including Thune. “That must be a different form of math,” Thune said Wednesday of Trump’s insistence the majority leader has the votes to pass the SAVE America Act.