Posted on 05/07/2024 4:37:48 PM PDT by RandFan
Sen. Mike Braun has come out on top of a crowded GOP primary in Indiana’s gubernatorial race, according to a projection from Decision Desk HQ.
Braun, a freshman senator, beat out five other Republican hopefuls, including Indiana Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch and former state Attorney General Curtis Hill.
Emerson College Polling/The Hill polling from March found Braun with a sizeable lead over the primary field, but a plurality of voters reported being undecided.
In the general election, Braun’s on track to go against Jennifer McCormick, a former state superintendent and the only Democratic gubernatorial candidate on the ballot. She won the state’s top education job as a Republican, but switched parties after her term ended.
The Democrat contender will likely have an uphill battle, though, in November. The Hoosier State has boasted a Republican trifecta — or GOP control of the state House, state Senate and the governor’s mansion — since 2011.
Braun is exiting the upper chamber in a bid to replace term-limited Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb (R), leaving his own Senate seat open.
Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) has Braun’s backing — and former President Trump’s endorsement — for the Senate seat, and he’s the only GOP contender on the ballot. That also puts Banks’ seat in the House up for grabs this year.
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Banks will be a great replacement
Banks will be an improvement over Braun.
The interesting races are at the U.S. House level, to see who wins the primaries for the 3 open Republican House seats (all of which should be easy holds in November) and who wins the contested primary in CD-5 between incumbent Ukrainiac Victoria Spartz and conservative state legislator Chuck Goodrich.
Looks like Goodrich going to lose. Ex-Congressman Marlin Stutzman may be winning in CD-3 and ex-Congressman John Hostettler was running in CD-8 (he lost). Hostettler first won election to the House in 1994 and was defeated in the anti-Republican “Abramoff” landslide in 2006.
One of the better ones? He’s voted for a lot of legislation pushed by the Dems. I honestly didn’t vote for either him or Young. I think he’s gonna be just another RINO governor like Pence and Holcomb were/are.
is the current gov an R? How will Braun’s replacement be picked...election or appointment?
I read a Twitter post by The Calvin Coolidge Project about the house races. He highlighted 5 of them. Looks like the incumbent rino’s are holding on. Some of the races had 2 or 3 vying against the incumbent which splinters the vote and we’re stuck with the rino’s.
Squishy state legislators won GOP primaries in CD-1 and CD-8. CD-1 (Gary, Hammond, Michigan City, most of LaPorte) hardly matters because the Democrat is easily going to win again in November.
In CD-8 ex-Congressman Hostettler wasn’t exactly a paragon of arch-conservatism, but he’d be better than Messmer who is a total squish.
Spartz, lately, isn’t SO bad on issues unrelated to Ukraine. She alone in the U.S. House at least has a somewhat decent excuse to keep funneling U.S. taxpayer money to that corrupt rathole — since she is from that country.
Spartz had initially decided not to run again this year, and was probably lured back in out of GOPe fear that a true conservative would win her district.
Baird in CD-4 is a RINO joke but Trump endorsed him anyway since he was 98% certain to win tonight.
I don’t know much about Jefferson Shreve in CD-6, just that he ran for Mayor of Indy; Mike Speedy would probably have been a better option. Either way it’s an easy hold in November, as are all of the above districts which have GOP reps right now.
“She won the state’s top education job as a Republican, but switched parties after her term ended.”
At least she is honest, at the fed level the uniparty runs the show.
Election. Braun’s term was up this cycle, and he chose not to run again as senator. Ran for governor instead.
bttt
Correct he is both until he won reelect to the senate, if he ran for senate again
ahhh...of course. thanx.
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