Republican Rep. Jim Banks says “Indiana deserves a conservative senator” and highlights that he’s “been a leading conservative voice in the House.”
Banks, a former state senator and a veteran of the Afghanistan war who is in his fourth term representing a district in northeast Indiana, on Tuesday formally launched his candidacy for the Senate in a 2024 run to succeed GOP Sen. Mike Braun, who last month announced that he’s bidding for governor of the Hoosier State rather than seek reelection.
Banks, in an interview with Fox News ahead of his announcement, said he intends “to go to the Senate and be the type of conservative fighter that Hoosiers expect out of their senator.”
“I’m 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’s what I want to do in the Senate,” he said.
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Republican Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana is interviewed by Fox News Digital in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 14, 2022.
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Banks launched his Senate campaign with a statement and video and announced it in a live national interview on Fox News’ “Fox and Friends.” He says he’ll travel throughout the state to meet with friends and supporters and speak with local media in the coming days.
He’s showcasing two high-profile endorsements as he jumps into the Senate race: Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, a rising star in the GOP, and Rep. Larry Bucshon, who represents Indiana’s 8th Congressional District in the southwest corner of the state.
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Banks, who spent the last two years chairing the Republican Study Committee, an influential group of conservative House lawmakers, said, “I feel called to step up and run for the Senate because we need new, fresh conservative leadership in the United States Senate. That’s what Indiana expects. That’s what Indiana deserves — a conservative fighter in the Senate.”
“The United States Senate is a place where I can do even more for the conservative values that I and the voters of Indiana care about,” he said.
Banks said that the growing national debt, the threat from China and wokeism are “the three biggest issues facing our country today.”
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