Tag Archives: Mike Braun

The Daily Beast reports: Dolly Parton has called on Indiana’s governor to reverse course on plans to do away with her popular “Imagination Library” program. The country singer, who started the book gifting program to encourage early literacy, urged Gov. Mike Braun to reconsider the state’s proposed budget, which does not include the usual 50 percent matching funds provided to …

The Indiana Digest reports: Governor Mike Braun’s “Freedom and Opportunity” budget proposal is throwing the future of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library around the state into flux. Under the previous budget, the state matched donations from local partners making the program budget 50% donations and 50% funds from the state. The proposed budget removes that funding altogether. The program came to the Allen …

NPR reports: Republican U.S. Sen. Mike Braun has won Indiana’s open governor’s race, according to a race call by The Associated Press. Braun, a Trump ally finishing out his first term in the Senate, beat out Democrat Jennifer McCormick and Libertarian Donald Rainwater. Braun’s victory creates a bit of Indiana history: the state has never had governors from one party …

The Indianapolis Star reports: U.S. Sen. Mike Braun has won the Indiana Republican gubernatorial primary. And there was little room for suspense: The Associated Press called the race for Braun the minute polls closed in the Indiana’s central-time counties, at which time Braun had a double-digit lead over his five opponents. Braun will face presumptive Democratic nominee Jennifer McCormick, a …

NBC News reports: Sen. Mike Braun, an Indiana Republican, has formed a campaign to run for governor in 2024, according to paperwork filed Tuesday. The development had been expected for months, with Braun hinting hard that he was interested in the race. Braun’s chief of staff acknowledged the filing and said that the first-term senator “will be making an official …

The Indianapolis Star reports: Sen. Mike Braun said during a media call Tuesday that the U.S. Supreme Court was wrong to legalize interracial marriage decades ago. That decision should have been left to individual states, as he sees it. Braun was asked about the landmark Loving v. Virginia court case after he explained he thought abortion rights questions should have …

ABC News reports: The legal process concerning election results must be allowed to play out, Sen. Mike Braun, R-Ind., said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” but nearly 50 court cases brought by the Trump campaign have been thrown out due to lack of evidence. Braun has been an ardent defender of President Donald Trump and has followed his lead in …