{"id":1808329,"date":"2023-01-17T11:19:49","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T16:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1808329"},"modified":"2023-01-17T11:20:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T16:20:24","slug":"indiana-gop-rep-jim-banks-announces-2024-run-for-mike-brauns-senate-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/indiana-gop-rep-jim-banks-announces-2024-run-for-mike-brauns-senate-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana GOP Rep. Jim Banks Announces 2024 Run For Mike Braun\u2019s Senate Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Findiana-gop-rep-jim-banks-announces-2024-run-for-mike-brauns-senate-seat%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1808329&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Rep. Jim Banks (Republican-indian) announced Tuesday that his candidacy for the Senate seat currently held in by Sen. Mike Braun, R-IN.<\/p>\n<p>Braun had previously stated that he would not seek re-election for Indiana governor in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe NEED conservatives in Washington who aren\u2019t afraid to fight Biden\u2019s radical agenda,\u201d Banks tweeted along with a video promotion of his Senate run. \u201cThat\u2019s why I am running to represent our great state of Indiana in the United States Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We NEED conservatives in Washington who aren\u2019t afraid to fight Biden\u2019s radical agenda. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why I am running to represent our great state of Indiana in the United States Senate. Get on my team <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/R8ntxo5pQt\">https:\/\/t.co\/R8ntxo5pQt<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4BPPQC7OxY\">pic.twitter.com\/4BPPQC7OxY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jim Banks (@Jim_Banks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jim_Banks\/status\/1615302923658960896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Banks was the first candidate to run for the Senate. He is also the former chair, Republican Study Committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRadical, socialist Democrats are trying to change America, but I won\u2019t let them,\u201d Banks spoke in the video. \u201cI\u2019ve been on the front lines fighting for America first policies in Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former Gov. Victoria Spartz (R.IN) and Rep. Victoria Spartz (R.IN). According to reports, Mitch Daniels (R.IN) is also looking at a run for this seat. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/indiana-rep-jim-banks-launches-2024-senate-run-highlights-record-conservative-fighter\">according<\/a> Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>Banks was first elected to the House in 2016 to represent Indiana\u2019s 3rd District which includes Fort Wayne, one of the state\u2019s largest cities. He was also a member the Indiana state Senate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m 100% pro-life, pro-family, pro-military, pro-veteran, focused on the issues that the voters care most about today, which is holding the Biden administration accountable and restoring America, fighting for our conservative values, putting America first, and that\u2019s what I want to do in the Senate,\u201d During a Fox News interview on Tuesday, he said this.<\/p>\n<p>Banks stated that the $1.7 trillion spending bill, which was supported by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky (R-KY), was a major factor in his decision not to run.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we need new conservative voices and leaders in the Senate. That\u2019s why I\u2019m running. There aren\u2019t enough of them, and the omnibus bill is an example of that,\u201d Banks said. \u201cThere\u2019s lots of other examples where we\u2019ve had Republican senators in the U.S. Senate go along with the Democrats and pass the radical Biden agenda. And I want to go there and fight back against it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Indiana is a conservative State, and Indiana should have a Republican Senator. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cSdWt5ecGS\">pic.twitter.com\/cSdWt5ecGS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jim Banks (@Jim_Banks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jim_Banks\/status\/1615319956458987530?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Banks highlights the top issues on his website. <a href=\"https:\/\/banksforsenate.com\/issues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">campaign website<\/a> Border security. Banks claim he \u201cis a strong and vocal advocate for securing our border by implementing the successful policies of the Trump administration, including building a physical barrier along the southern border, and reinstating the \u2018Remain in Mexico\u2019 program where migrants must wait in Mexico before their asylum claims can be heard in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) announced Tuesday that he is running for the Senate seat currently held by Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN). Braun previously announced plans not to seek re-election in 2024 in order to run for governor of Indiana. \u201cWe NEED conservatives in Washington who aren\u2019t afraid to fight Biden\u2019s radical agenda,\u201d Banks tweeted alongside &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":1808332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4506,4156,8961,15272,6202,6203,7006,6239,4301,7129,5839,3740,6195],"class_list":["post-1808329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-4506","tag-announces","tag-banks","tag-brauns","tag-daily","tag-gop","tag-indiana","tag-jim","tag-mike","tag-rep","tag-seat","tag-senate","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1808329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1808332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1808329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1808329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1808329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}