Republican U.S. Senator Mike Braun is running for governor in 2024 — officially.
Monday’s announcement, made in front of campaign supporters and politicos at upscale downtown Indianapolis steakhouse Prime 47, was expected after he filed paperwork last week to run for Indiana’s governor in 2024.
After serving in the state legislature beginning in 2014, Braun, 68, was first elected to the Senate after defeating incumbent Democrat Joe Donnelly in 2018. He also won a divisive primary against two sitting congressmen at the time: Todd Rokita and Luke Messer. Braun said Monday that he would finish out the two years on his Senate term “robustly” but didn’t intend to become a career, Washington, D.C.-based politician.
He wants to come home, he said, to tackle issues such as infant and maternal mortality, workforce, education, public safety and affordable housing.
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