Mike Braun

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Mike Braun
Mike Braun, Official Portrait, 116th Congress.jpg
Official portrait, 2019
United States Senator
from Indiana
Assumed office
January 3, 2019
Serving with Todd Young
Preceded byJoe Donnelly
Member of the Indiana House of Representatives
from the 63rd district
In office
November 5, 2014 – November 1, 2017
Preceded byMark Messmer
Succeeded byShane Lindauer
Personal details
Born (1954-03-24) March 24, 1954 (age 67)
Jasper, Indiana, U.S.
Political partyRepublican (2012–present)
Other political
affiliations
Democratic (before 2012)[1]
Spouse(s)
Maureen Braun
(m. 1976)
Children4
RelativesSteve Braun (brother)
ResidenceJasper, Indiana
EducationWabash College (BA)
Harvard University (MBA)
Net worth$37–95 million[2]
WebsiteSenate website

Michael K. Braun[3] (/ˈbrɔːn/; born March 24, 1954) is an American businessman and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Indiana. Previously, he represented the 63rd district in the Indiana House of Representatives from 2014 to 2017. A member of the Republican Party, Braun was elected to the United States Senate in 2018, defeating Democratic incumbent Joe Donnelly.[4]

Braun opposes the Affordable Care Act, same-sex marriage, abortion, and a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. He is a self-described conservationist who has pressured the Republican Party to take climate change more seriously, but he also supported U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accords. During Trump's presidency, he supported Trump's trade and tariff policies after having previously been a free trade advocate. Braun voted to acquit Trump in the impeachment trial related to the Trump-Ukraine scandal. After Joe Biden won the 2020 election and Trump refused to concede while making false claims of fraud, Braun defended Trump's attempt to overturn the election results.

Early life, education and business career[]

Braun was born in Jasper, Indiana, on March 24, 1954.[5] He graduated from Jasper High School. Braun was a three-sport star athlete; he married his high school sweetheart, Maureen,[6] who was a cheerleader.[7] He attended the all-male Wabash College, where he was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity and graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in economics, and Harvard Business School, where he earned an MBA.[6][8]

After graduating from Harvard, Braun moved back to Indiana and joined his father’s business manufacturing truck bodies for farmers. When the economy of the mid-1980s hit farmers hard and his father's business nearly went under, Braun steered the business in the more lucrative direction of selling truck accessories. The business subsequently grew from 15 employees to more than 300.[7] In 1986 Braun and Daryl Rauscher acquired Meyer Body Inc., a manufacturer of truck bodies and distributor of truck parts and equipment.[9] In 1995 Braun fully acquired the company. Meyer Body was renamed Meyer Distributing in 1999. Braun is its president and CEO.[10] In 2018 Braun's personal finance disclosure listed assets worth between $35 million and $96 million.[11]

Early political career[]

Braun was a member of the Jasper School Board from 2004 to 2014.[12]

He served in the Indiana House of Representatives for Indiana District 63 from 2014 to 2017.[6] Braun resigned from the state House on November 1, 2017, to focus on his U.S. Senate campaign.[13] In 2017, the American Conservative Union gave him a lifetime score of 82%.[14]

In July 2018, 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.[15]

U.S. Senate[]

Elections[]

2018[]

Braun campaigning in Greenfield, Indiana

Braun won the Republican primary for the United States Senate in the 2018 election, defeating U.S. Representatives Todd Rokita and Luke Messer[16][17] by over 56,000 votes. He received 208,520 votes, or roughly 41% of the total.[4] Braun ran as an outsider, emphasizing his career in business.[18] He defeated Democratic incumbent Joe Donnelly in the November general election[19] with 51% of the vote to Donnelly's 45%; the Libertarian candidate, Lucy Brenton, tallied less than 4%.[20] In late 2019, the Indianapolis Star reported that Braun's 2018 campaign was the beneficiary of $2.8 million in spending by a political action committee with strong connections to indicted money launderer Lev Parnas and one of his shell companies.[21] Parnas supplied photographs of him and Braun embracing at a 2018 campaign event to the House of Representatives as part of his cooperation with the impeachment of President Trump. They were made public in January 2020.[22]

Tenure[]

2010s

On January 3, 2019, Braun was sworn in as the junior United States senator from Indiana by Vice President Mike Pence.[23]

On May 24, 2019, 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. Braun said the disaster assistance process was "just another path for runaway spending on unrelated projects." Despite his opposition, the package was enacted with bipartisan support and President Trump's approval.[24]

After Trump announced that American troops would pull out of northern Syria in October 2019, Braun supported the move, saying, "I don’t think we can be the policeman of the world. We should lead, but we should do it in a way that is sustainable."[25] As a result, in that month, Turkey launched a military offensive against the American-allied Kurds in that area. After that, Braun called Trump "smart", questioning why the United States should "be in the crossfire" between Turkey and the Kurds. He called the idea that ISIS would recover strength as a result of the conflict "an assumption".[26]

On December 10, 2019, Braun said that the impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump had been a "disaster for Democrats", adding that Democrats had wanted to impeach Trump ever since his election in 2016, "when they didn't have any idea of what their reason would be."[27]

2020s

In May 2020, Senator Chuck Schumer put forth a resolution to officially release the guidance by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on how to safely lift restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. A leaked version of the guidance showed that it was more detailed and restrictive than the White House recommendations released in April 2020. Braun blocked Schumer's resolution, saying that the CDC's recommendations would hinder the economy.[28]

On October 26, 2020, Braun voted to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.[29] He said Barrett would be "one of the best Supreme Court justices that we’ve put on the bench in a long time, someone that is that humble and that smart and embedded in those Midwestern values."[30]

Braun announced he planned to oppose the certification of the Electoral College vote count on January 6, 2021. He was participating in the certification when Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. In the wake of the attack, he tweeted, "Though I will continue to push for a thorough investigation into the election irregularities many Hoosiers are concerned with as my objection was intended, I have withdrawn that objection and will vote to get this ugly day behind us." He voted to support the certification after Congress returned to session.[31] The South Bend Tribune called Braun's flip-flop "a case of too little, too late."[32] The Democratic Party of Indiana called for Braun's resignation, saying he “incited violence to overturn the presidential election and end American democracy.”[33]

Committee assignments[]

For the 117th United States Congress Braun was named to five Senate committees.[34] They are:

Caucus membership[]

  • Senate Republican Conference

Political positions[]

The American Conservative Union gave Braun a 93% lifetime conservative rating in 2020.[35]

Abortion[]

Braun opposes abortion.[36]

Donald Trump[]

According to FiveThirtyEight, Braun voted with Donald Trump's position 90.9% of the time between Braun's inauguration and Trump's departure from office two years later.[37]

During Trump's first impeachment and impeachment trial, regarding the Trump–Ukraine scandal, Braun became one of Trump's most prominent defenders, defending him in many media appearances.[38] He voted to acquit Trump, and when asked whether it is acceptable for Trump to withhold U.S. foreign aid to coerce a foreign leader to investigate Joe Biden, he said that he did not believe that such behavior was proper but that "it didn't happen."[39] Braun also said that Trump did what he did out of a desire to reduce corruption in Ukraine.[40] After Trump was acquitted, Braun said that Trump "hopefully" learned something from the trial.[41][42]

Effort to overturn 2020 presidential election result[]

After Biden won the 2020 presidential election, Trump refused to concede and made baseless claims of election fraud. Braun defended, and joined in, Trump's attempt to overturn the election results and subvert the democratic process.[43] He wrote a Washington Examiner editorial criticizing the media for not taking accusations of voter fraud seriously.[44] There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud or irregularities in the 2020 election.[45][46] Along with 10 other Republican senators, Braun initially pledged to object to the counting of the electoral votes in several key states.[43] After the storming of the Capitol by a violent pro-Trump mob, Braun reversed himself and voted against objections to the election results, saying that he "didn't feel comfortable with today's events."[47]

In Trump's second impeachment trial, on charges of incitement of insurrection, Braun voted to acquit Trump.[48]

On May 28, 2021, Braun abstained from voting on the creation of an independent commission to investigate the January 6 storming of the Capitol.[49]

Economy[]

Braun supported the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, the Republican Party's tax reform bill.[36] He said the tax reform bill was "revenue-neutral"; the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that the bill would increase U.S. debt.[36] Braun has called for cuts to the U.S. budget, saying that the U.S. "has a spending problem."[36]

Braun voted in support of the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement.[37]

Environmentalism[]

Braun is a self-described conservationist.[50] He has called Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg an "inspiration" and advocated that the Republican Party be more aggressive in combating climate change. He opposed the 2015 Paris climate change agreement, but supports using reforestation, carbon pricing, and carbon capture to reduce or mitigate carbon dioxide emissions.[50] He also serves as the chair of the bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus, which was founded in October 2019.[51][50] 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.[52]

Braun has a 4% lifetime score from the environmental advocacy group League of Conservation Voters.[53]

Free trade[]

In 2018, Braun supported Trump's trade and tariff policies, saying that they have "yielded phenomenal results."[36][54] Previously, he supported free trade policies.[54]

Health care[]

Braun opposes the Affordable Care Act, supports efforts to repeal it, and supports a lawsuit to strike down the entirety of the ACA.[55][56] Braun has called for "free-market competition" and "market-driven" solutions on health care.[36] During his 2018 Senate campaign, he criticized incumbent Democratic Senator Joe Donnelly as a "defender of Obamacare."[55] Braun expressed support for keeping in place protections for individuals with (a popular provision of the ACA), although both House repeal efforts supported by Braun and the lawsuit supported by Braun would effectively end protections for individuals with preexisting conditions.[55][56]

Immigration[]

Braun has said, "building the wall must be the first step to any solution" on illegal immigration.[36][57] He opposes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as minors, known as DREAMers.[57]

LGBT rights[]

Asked for his view on the legalization of same-sex marriage, Braun said, "I believe in traditional marriage."[36][58] He fought to keep marriage defined as "between a man and a woman" in the Indiana Republican Party platform.[58] In the Indiana state legislature, he supported the Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act and opposed amendments to the bill that would have banned discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.[58]

Police reform[]

In 2020, after George Floyd's death, 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. His legislation would have made it easier to sue police officers for rights violations.[59]

Electoral history[]

United States Senate election in Indiana, 2018[60]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Mike Braun 1,158,000 50.73% +6.45%
Democratic Joe Donnelly (incumbent) 1,023,553 44.84% -5.20%
Libertarian Lucy Brenton 100,942 4.42% -1.26%
Write-in 70 <0.01% N/A
Total votes 2,282,565 100% N/A
Republican gain from Democratic
Republican Primary U.S. Senate, Indiana, 2018[61]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Mike Braun 208,497 41.18%
Republican Todd Rokita 151,904 30.00%
Republican Luke Messer 145,936 28.82%
Total votes 506,337 100%
Indiana House of Representatives, 63rd District, 2016[62]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Mike Braun 19,228 71.75
Democratic Andrea Hulsman 7,570 28.25
Total votes 26,798 100.00
Republican hold
Indiana House of Representatives, 63rd District, 2014[63][64]
Primary election
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Mike Braun 4,611 66.80
Republican Richard Moss 2,292 33.20
Total votes 6,903 100.00
General election
Republican Mike Braun 13,329 100.00
Total votes 13,329 100.00
Republican hold

Personal life[]

Braun and his wife, Maureen, have four children.[6] He is Roman Catholic.[65] Braun's brother, Steve Braun, is also a politician in Indiana.[66]

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Preceded by
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