“I’m for Dick Lugar, he’s the role model I’ve had,” Daniels said on NBC’s “Meet the Press”. “Folks in Indiana know that I am for him and that I admire him and think if he wants another term he ought to have one.”

Lugar, the most senior member of the Senate Republican conference, is running for a seventh term against Indiana state treasurer Richard Mourdock, who has Tea-Party backing.

Daniels served as Lugar’s chief of staff and later under him as executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.