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Republican senator for South Dakota
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Thune votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Thune’s actual and predicted Biden support scores
| Biden margin | Biden score | Biden plus-minus |
|---|---|---|
| Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s | How often Thune votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Thune’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
-26.2% | 34.8% | +0.9 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Thune vote | Agree with Biden? | Predicted chance of voting with Biden | Plus-minus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec. 22, 2022 | Providing appropriations for various federal departments and agencies for fiscal year 2023; updating the process of appointing and tallying presidential electors; providing money for humanitarian, security and economic assistance to Ukraine (68-29) John Thune's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 37.8% | +62.2 |
| Dec. 14, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule governing charter school grants (49-49) John Thune's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes |  | 2.7% | +97.3 |
| Dec. 1, 2022 | Requiring certain railroad and labor organizations to accept a labor agreement (80-15) John Thune's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 88.0% | +12.0 |
| Nov. 29, 2022 | Repealing the Defense of Marriage Act and requiring states to recognize same-sex and interracial marriages performed out-of-state; includes an amendment allowing religious organizations to deny services or accomodations for same-sex weddings (61-36) John Thune's Vote: No | support | No | | 20.6% | -20.6 |
| Nov. 15, 2022 | Terminating the national COVID-19 emergency declared on March 13, 2020 (61-37) John Thune's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.1% | +99.9 |
| Sept. 29, 2022 | Extending government funding and providing money for economic and security assistance to Ukraine (72-25) John Thune's Vote: No | support | No | | 39.3% | -39.3 |
| Aug. 7, 2022 | Allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices; extending Affordable Care Act subsidies; expanding tax credits for renewable and clean energy efforts; establishing a 15 percent corporate minimum tax; and other measures (50-50) John Thune's Vote: No | support | No | | 2.5% | -2.5 |
| Aug. 4, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47) John Thune's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.1% | +99.9 |
| July 27, 2022 | Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33) John Thune's Vote: No | support | No | | 28.1% | -28.1 |
| June 23, 2022 | Expanding firearm regulations (65-33) John Thune's Vote: No | support | No | | 20.6% | -20.6 |
| June 16, 2022 | Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14) John Thune's Vote: No | support | No | | 67.2% | -67.2 |
| May 26, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48) John Thune's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 1.1% | +98.9 |
| May 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine and mask requirements in Head Start programs (55-41) John Thune's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.0% | +100.0 |
| April 7, 2022 | Nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (53-47) John Thune's Vote: No | support | No | | 4.1% | -4.1 |
| March 28, 2022 | Providing money for semiconductor manufacturing, supply chain improvements and scientific research (68-28) John Thune's Vote: No | support | No | | 41.2% | -41.2 |
| March 15, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of the CDC's requirement of masks on planes, trains and buses (57-40) John Thune's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.3% | +99.7 |
| March 15, 2022 | Nomination of Shalanda D. Young to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (61-36) John Thune's Vote: No | support | No | | 22.9% | -22.9 |
| March 10, 2022 | The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31) John Thune's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 34.3% | +65.7 |
| March 8, 2022 | Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (79-19) John Thune's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 61.2% | +38.8 |
| March 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the national COVID-19 emergency declaration (48-47) John Thune's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 2.6% | +97.4 |
| March 2, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44) John Thune's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 2.6% | +97.4 |
| Feb. 28, 2022 | Protecting the right to an abortion and health care providers’ ability to provide abortion services (46-48) John Thune's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.1% | -0.1 |
| Jan. 19, 2022 | Keeping Senate filibuster rules in place to block voting-rights legislation (52-48) John Thune's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.1% | +99.9 |
| Jan. 13, 2022 | Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44) John Thune's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 3.5% | +96.5 |
| Dec. 14, 2021 | Increasing the debt limit (50-49) John Thune's Vote: No | support | No | | 2.5% | -2.5 |
| Dec. 8, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates for large businesses (52-48) John Thune's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.0% | +100.0 |
| Dec. 7, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the sale of certain weapons to Saudi Arabia (30-67) John Thune's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 94.0% | -94.0 |
| Dec. 2, 2021 | Extending government funding (69-28) John Thune's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 32.1% | ||
| Oct. 7, 2021 | Suspending the debt limit through Dec. 16, 2022 (50-48) John Thune's Vote: No | support | No | | 2.7% | -2.7 |
| Sept. 30, 2021 | Extending government funding and raising the debt ceiling (65-35) John Thune's Vote: No | support | No | | 24.8% | -24.8 |
| Aug. 11, 2021 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49) John Thune's Vote: No | support | No | | 2.5% | -2.5 |
| Aug. 10, 2021 | Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30) John Thune's Vote: No | support | No | | 36.3% | -36.3 |
| July 29, 2021 | Providing emergency funding for Capitol security in response to the Jan. 6 attack and for the expansion of the Afghan visa program (98-0) John Thune's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| June 22, 2021 | Expanding voting rights and strengthening campaign finance regulations and ethics rules (50-50) John Thune's Vote: No | support | No | | 2.5% | -2.5 |
| June 8, 2021 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50) John Thune's Vote: No | support | No | | 2.5% | -2.5 |
| June 8, 2021 | Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32) John Thune's Vote: No | support | No | | 36.7% | -36.7 |
| May 28, 2021 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (54-35) John Thune's Vote: No | support | No | | 9.8% | -9.8 |
| May 19, 2021 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48) John Thune's Vote: No | support | No | | 2.8% | -2.8 |
| May 11, 2021 | Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (52-47) John Thune's Vote: No | support | No | | 7.2% | -7.2 |
| April 29, 2021 | Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2) John Thune's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.1% | +3.9 |
| April 28, 2021 | Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (52-42) John Thune's Vote: No | support | No | | 3.7% | -3.7 |
| April 22, 2021 | Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (94-1) John Thune's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.0% | +2.0 |
| March 22, 2021 | Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29) John Thune's Vote: No | support | No | | 32.8% | -32.8 |
| March 18, 2021 | Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be secretary of health and human services (50-49) John Thune's Vote: No | support | No | | 2.3% | -2.3 |
| March 17, 2021 | Nomination of Katherine C. Tai to be United States trade representative (98-0) John Thune's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 16, 2021 | Nomination of Isabella Casillas Guzman to be administrator of the Small Business Administration (81-17) John Thune's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 62.3% | +37.7 |
| March 15, 2021 | Nomination of Debra Anne Haaland to be secretary of the interior (51-40) John Thune's Vote: No | support | No | | 4.8% | -4.8 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Michael Stanley Regan to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (66-34) John Thune's Vote: No | support | No | | 22.3% | -22.3 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30) John Thune's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 33.4% | +66.6 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Marcia Louise Fudge to be secretary of housing and urban development (66-34) John Thune's Vote: No | support | No | | 29.7% | -29.7 |
| March 6, 2021 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49) John Thune's Vote: No | support | No | | 2.7% | -2.7 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (95-4) John Thune's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 91.2% | +8.8 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15) John Thune's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 64.4% | +35.6 |
| March 1, 2021 | Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33) John Thune's Vote: No | support | No | | 19.8% | -19.8 |
| Feb. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35) John Thune's Vote: No | support | No | | 26.9% | -26.9 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (78-21) John Thune's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 56.7% | +43.3 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7) John Thune's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 92.3% | +7.7 |
| Feb. 8, 2021 | Nomination of Denis Richard McDonough to be secretary of veterans affairs (87-7) John Thune's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 85.5% | +14.5 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas to be secretary of homeland security (56-43) John Thune's Vote: No | support | No | | 10.1% | -10.1 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg to be secretary of transportation (86-13) John Thune's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 73.7% | +26.3 |
| Jan. 26, 2021 | Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22) John Thune's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 47.7% | +52.3 |
| Jan. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Janet Louise Yellen to be secretary of the treasury (84-15) John Thune's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 63.9% | +36.1 |
| Jan. 22, 2021 | Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2) John Thune's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.5% | +4.5 |
| Jan. 21, 2021 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27) John Thune's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 74.9% | +25.1 |
| Jan. 20, 2021 | Nomination of Avril Danica Haines to be director of national intelligence (84-10) John Thune's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 78.2% | +21.8 |
| Average | 34.8% | 34.0% | +0.9 | |||
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