INDIANAPOLIS — Longtime public figure Marc Carmichael will campaign for Indiana’s open U.S. Senate seat in 2024. He is the first Democrat to announce for the seat currently held by Sen. Mike Braun, who is stepping down to run for governor.
Carmichael targeted U.S. Rep. Jim Banks, a Republican, who announced his intention to run for the Senate seat in January, saying Banks was “mean-spirited.”
“I’m running because I want to be of dignified and dedicated service to Indiana, in the mold of legislators like Richard Lugar and Lee Hamilton,” Carmichael said in a release. “We deserve better than to be represented by someone as mean-spirited, blindly partisan, and out of touch with Hoosiers as Jim Banks. His attacks on innocent LGBTQ children for purely political gain are disgusting and his vote against certifying the Biden election and dishonest rhetoric after that election help lead to the riot at the U. S. Capitol on January 6. He should be ashamed.”
In his announcement, Banks promised to be a “conservative fighter” in the upper chamber. No other Republicans have announced a run for the seat, though many floated former Gov. Mitch Daniels as a possibility to appeal to more moderate voters.
Daniels formally quashed those rumors after a blistering ad campaign funded by Club For Growth, a conservative super PAC with ties to Banks, branded him as “out of date.”
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