Republican U.S. Sen. Mike Braun formally launched a committee Wednesday for a 2024 campaign for governor in his home state of Indiana, a move that would forego a reelection bid for his Senate seat.
Braun, the 68-year-old wealthy founder of a national auto parts distribution business, is the most prominent of several active potential Republican candidates for the field to replace GOP Gov. Eric Holcomb, who can’t seek reelection because of term limits.
Braun would be heavily favored to win a second Senate term in 2024 from Republican-dominated Indiana after fueling his successful 2018 Senate campaign with more than $11 million in personal loans to go from being a Josh Kelley, Braun’s chief of staff and senior political adviser, acknowledged the campaign filing with the Indiana Election Division and said in an email that Braun “will be making an official announcement of his candidacy very soon.”Sign up for NBC Chicago newsletters.
Braun campaigned in 2018 as a strong supporter of then-President Donald Trump and has often aligned himself closely with U.S. Senate Republicans’ most conservative members while bemoaning the Senate’s deliberative pace. He supported the failed attempt by Florida Sen. Rick Scott this month to saying in a statement that “Hoosier conservative Republicans are sick and tired of the status quo.”
Braun had announced he would vote against accepting Electoral College votes from some states Democrat Joe Biden won in the 2020 election over Trump. But he changed his mind after the at the U.S. Capitol, saying the violence “changed things drastically” and that he would “vote to get this ugly day behind us.” in March to veto a GOP-backed bill banning transgender girls from competing in Indiana girls sports teams.
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