Michael Kent Braun is an American businessman and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Indiana since 2019.
41 Facts About Mike Braun
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Mike Braun was elected to the United States Senate in 2018, defeating Democratic incumbent Joe Donnelly.
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Mike Braun opposes the Affordable Care Act, same-sex marriage, abortion, and a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
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Mike Braun has called on the Republican Party to take climate change more seriously.
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Mike Braun supported President Donald Trump's trade and tariff policies, although he was previously an advocate of free trade.
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Mike Braun voted to acquit Trump in the impeachment trial related to the Trump-Ukraine scandal.
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Mike Braun is running for governor of Indiana in 2024, having filed election papers on November 30,2022, and declared his candidacy on December 12.
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Mike Braun was born in Jasper, Indiana, on March 24,1954.
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Mike Braun was a three-sport star athlete; he married his high school sweetheart, Maureen, who was a cheerleader.
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Mike Braun was formerly registered as a Democratic voter, but switched to the Republican Party in 2012.
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Mike Braun claimed that he has always considered himself a conservative Republican, but voted in Democratic primaries for years because his home county, Dubois County, historically voted heavily Democratic downballot.
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Mike Braun was a member of the Jasper School Board from 2004 to 2014.
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In 2014, Mike Braun was elected to the Indiana House of Representatives, in the 63rd district.
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Mike Braun resigned from the state House on November 1,2017, to focus on his US Senate campaign.
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In July 2018, Mike Braun called for the Indiana attorney general, Republican Curtis Hill, to resign amid allegations that Hill had drunkenly groped a lawmaker and three legislative staffers.
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Mike Braun won the Republican primary for the United States Senate in the 2018 election, defeating US Representatives Todd Rokita and Luke Messer by over 56,000 votes.
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Mike Braun ran as an outsider, emphasizing his career in business.
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Parnas supplied photographs of him and Mike Braun embracing at a 2018 campaign event to the House of Representatives as part of his cooperation with the impeachment of President Trump.
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In May 2019, Mike Braun was one of eight senators who voted against a $19.1 billion emergency aid package for states and territories that endured hurricanes, floods and fires.
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Mike Braun supported Trump's decision to withdraw American troops from northern Syria in October 2019.
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Mike Braun blocked Schumer's resolution, saying that the CDC's recommendations would hinder the economy.
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On October 26,2020, Mike Braun voted to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, and praised Barrett.
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Mike Braun was participating in the joint session of Congress counting the electoral votes when a mob of Trump supporters attacked the US Capitol.
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On November 30,2022, Mike Braun filed papers with the Secretary of State of Indiana to run for the state's governor in the 2024 Indiana gubernatorial election, following speculation since September that he would run for the office.
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Mike Braun supported the 2022 overturning of Roe v Wade, saying he was "excited" that states could write their own abortion laws.
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Mike Braun has said that the Supreme Court of the United States was wrong in its ruling that state interracial marriage bans were unconstitutional.
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Mike Braun later stated that he was not paying attention to the question and that the Constitution prohibits discrimination of any kind based on race.
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Mike Braun defended, and joined in, Trump's attempt to overturn the election results.
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Mike Braun wrote a Washington Examiner editorial criticizing the media for not taking accusations of voter fraud seriously.
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In Trump's second impeachment trial, on charges of incitement of insurrection, Mike Braun voted to acquit Trump.
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On May 28,2021, Mike Braun abstained from voting on the creation of an independent commission to investigate the January 6 storming of the Capitol.
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Mike Braun said the tax reform bill was "revenue-neutral"; the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that the bill would increase US debt.
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Mike Braun has called Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg an "inspiration" and advocated that the Republican Party be more aggressive in combating climate change.
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Mike Braun opposed the 2015 Paris climate change agreement, but supports using reforestation, carbon pricing, and carbon capture to reduce or mitigate carbon dioxide emissions.
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Mike Braun serves as the chair of the bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus, which was founded in October 2019.
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Mike Braun sponsored the Growing Climate Solutions Act, a bill that would make it simpler for farmers to sell carbon credits on existing carbon trading markets in California and in the Northeast.
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Mike Braun opposes the Affordable Care Act, supports efforts to repeal it, and supports a lawsuit to strike down the entirety of the ACA.
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Mike Braun has called for "free-market competition" and "market-driven" solutions on health care.
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Mike Braun has said, "building the wall must be the first step to any solution" on illegal immigration.
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Mike Braun opposes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as minors, known as DREAMers.
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In June 2020, after the murder of George Floyd, Mike Braun introduced legislation to reform qualified immunity, a legal doctrine that shields police officers from lawsuits over constitutional violations if the violated constitutional right has not been clearly established in a previous court decision.