Fox News projects Sen. Mike Braun wins Indiana governor's race

Fox News Decision Desk tin study that Indiana voters chose Republican Mike Braun to beryllium their adjacent politician Tuesday, cementing the state's solidly reddish presumption – adjacent arsenic his face-off against Jennifer McCormick had enactment immoderate governmental observers connected edge. 

In the end, Braun, who presently serves successful the U.S. Senate, bushed Democratic campaigner McCormick, a erstwhile Indiana superintendent of nationalist education, and Libertarian campaigner Donald Rainwater. Braun volition regenerate outgoing two-term Gov. Eric Holcomb, besides a Republican. 

Braun, McCormick and Rainwater each espoused a wide scope of views connected reproductive rights, warring inflation, and however champion to enactment the growers, farmers and tiny concern owners successful the state. 

But Braun had struggled to entreaty to immoderate mean voters, and faced a tighter-than-expected contention with McCormick, a Republican-turned-Democrat who ran heavy connected issues of nationalist acquisition and expanding women's reproductive rights.

"The GOP is inactive intelligibly favored determination but there’s been capable enactment that it doesn’t look similar an average, sleepy ‘Safe’-rated contest," analysts astatine the University of Virginia's Center for Politics wrote successful a  pre-election blog post.

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Indiana gubernatorial campaigner Jennifer McCormick speaks to the property successful Indianapolis. (Grace Smith/IndySta/USA Today Network via Imagn Images)

Despite their differences, each 3 candidates sought to entreaty to voters connected cardinal issues: Among them, lowering spot taxes, expanding enactment for tiny businesses, and creating caller investments and economical opportunities successful the state.

Braun focused his argumentation plans connected alleged "kitchen table" issues successful a bid to pull mean voters, specified arsenic lowering wellness attraction costs, expanding nationalist safety, and helping Indiana farmers and growers.

His run has released argumentation proposals designed to absorption connected lowering taxes for homeowners and tiny concern owners successful the Hoosier State, including a simplification connected taxes for definite types of instrumentality utilized by farmers and different harvest producers.

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Republican U.S. Sen. Mike Braun prepares to talk during an October statement successful Indianapolis. (Grace Hollars/IndyStar/USA Today Network via Imagn Images)

On wellness care, Braun's program had included immoderate provisions that Republicans antecedently attempted and failed to walk successful caller legislative sessions, including reforming anterior authorization and regulations connected pharmacy payment managers. 

McCormick, the Democrat, campaigned heavy connected entree to termination and acquisition successful the last months of the race. Her enactment for termination rights was a stark departure from the near-ban connected abortions that authorities lawmakers approved successful 2023 – but did triumph her entreaty among immoderate younger, pistillate voters.

If elected, she had pledged to name caller Indiana Supreme Court justices that enactment women, immigrants, wellness attraction providers, and the LGBT+ community. 

All 3 besides elaborate plans for addressing Indiana's affordable lodging crisis, which is among the worst successful the Midwest and the taxable of a two-year task force. Their plans, however, were besides strikingly different. While Braun is readying to look into immoderate "burdensome authorities regulations" that could beryllium down the spike successful spot taxes, helium has besides stressed the relation of businesses successful the authorities successful helping revive the section economy.

McCormick, meanwhile, had called for a $600 cardinal taxation alleviation program for spot owners successful the state.

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Rainwater introduced a connection that seeks to headdress spot taxes astatine conscionable 1% of the acquisition terms – a drastic measurement that would person required amending the state's constitution. 

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