JACKSON — Mississippi’s Roger Wicker has been chosen as chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
In that role, he will help raise campaign cash for his party’s candidates running for the Senate across the nation in 2016.
Wicker’s Republican Senate colleagues chose him for their sixth-highest leadership post Thursday.
He says in a statement that he intends to roll up his sleeves and make sure his party has the money it needs to preserve the majority it won this year.
Mississippi’s senior senator, Thad Cochran just won a seventh term. He says in a statement that Wicker has the chance “to extend thoughtful Republican governance of the United State Senate.”
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