Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) is leading an effort to postpone next week’s scheduled elections for the Senate GOP leadership team after the party’s bruising midterm elections performance.

In a letter that he plans to send Monday to Senate Republican Conference Chairman Tom Cotton (R-AR) and obtained by the Washington Examiner, Johnson called it “political malpractice” to move forward with the closed-door elections so soon after a “stunning defeat.”

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