INDIANAPOLIS – Perennial Libertarian candidate Andy Horning launched his campaign last week to fill the soon-to-be vacant U.S. Senate seat, following Sen. Mike Braun’s decision to run for Indiana governor.
“The constitutional purpose of US. Senators are to be the voice of our sovereign states against the violation of constitutional restraints, abuse of power, and loss of individual human rights. For that fundamental, constitutional, legal purpose, Indiana has not had a U.S. Senator for generations,” Horning said in a release. “But there will be one such candidate for Indiana US Senate in 2024 — me.”
His previous political career includes running against incumbent eighth Congressional District Rep. Larry Buschon, also as a Libertarian.
Horning urged voters to consider third-party candidates and reject his mainstream competition. He said, “Any vote for any major party candidate is a vote for a global puppet show of lobbyists, permanent partisan DC staffers, bureaucrats, bundlers, kingmakers, and military industrialists.”
Traditionally, Libertarian candidates haven’t garnered the votes necessary to easily gain access to ballots — an issue under consideration in court — though the last Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Donald Rainwater netted a historic 11.4% of the vote in 2020.
Horning added, “The best Republicans (and there are many well-intentioned fine people in both major parties) can only waste our best efforts, money, and time. They give us only false hope. They misappropriate our power of peaceful revolution. They waste our votes.”
U.S. Rep. Jim Banks, a Republican, and retired state lawmaker Marc Carmichael, a Democrat, are also running for the U.S. Senate seat.
Horning – Courtesy – Campaign website.
