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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Tue Jan 17, 2023, 03:34 PM Jan 2023

GOP Rep. Banks jumps into race for open Indiana Senate seat

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Republican Rep. Jim Banks, a combative defender of former President Donald Trump, announced on Tuesday that he is running for the U.S. Senate seat from Indiana being vacated by GOP Sen. Mike Braun.

Banks is the first candidate to formally enter the Senate race since Braun said in December that he would forgo a 2024 reelection bid and run instead for Indiana governor. Banks’ announcement comes days after Donald Trump Jr. and the Washington-based anti-tax Club for Growth began attacking former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels as insufficiently conservative while Daniels ponders whether to also seek the Senate seat.

Banks criticized current Senate Republicans for cooperating too much with the Biden administration and allowing passage of a massive $1.7 trillion spending bill just before Christmas.

“I just believe now more than ever that we need conservatives in the Senate who are going to fight back against radical Democrat policies instead of going along with it,” Banks told The Associated Press. “Republican primary voters are looking for a conservative fighter, someone to go to Washington and fight for Hoosier family values and against the radical, socialist and woke agenda that Democrats are pushing in Washington.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-rep-banks-jumps-race-110009060.html

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GOP Rep. Banks jumps into race for open Indiana Senate seat (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2023 OP
slappable smug face of an evangelical-educated douche CurtEastPoint Jan 2023 #1
Banks for Senate, Braun for Governor gatomedianoche Feb 2023 #2

gatomedianoche

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2. Banks for Senate, Braun for Governor
Mon Feb 13, 2023, 03:01 PM
Feb 2023

What does this dynamic duo have in common? For starters, they are both activist homophobes and transphobes. Banks never misses an opportunity to find ways to dehumanize and harm the LGBT+ community. They are both racist crusaders against anything that does not support white supremacy ideology. Braun went so far as to decry interracial marriage. Add Todd Rokita and Diego Morales into the mix and you got yourself what makes Indiana so backwards

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