News about Mike Braun

Should wealthy Republicans put MILLIONS of their own money into their Senate campaigns? They may want to hold off as self-funding has not always spelled success

www.dailymail.co.uk, April 21, 2024
As Republicans set their sights on flipping the Senate come November, they've recruited an selection of GOP Senate candidates who are willing to put millions of dollars of their own money into bids to unseat Democrats. Using personal wealth to fund campaigns has been a growing trend in politics as races for public office have grown increasingly more expensive. This year, nearly all the Republican candidates looking to unseat Democrats in major battleground Senate races are putting their own money into their campaigns.

At the southern border, Republicans are trying to'stop the invasion' of migrants, which would put a halt to the Biden administration's use of the CBP One app, which has helped over 320,000 migrants to fly into the United States

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 26, 2024
Republicans who compete with the White House over immigration are seeking to prohibit the Biden administration from allowing migrants to board flights into the United States without having to present a valid ticket. Customs and Border Protection's CBP One app was launched to expedite wait times for perishable industrial products meant for exporting through legal US ports of entry. However, Biden's administration extended the use of the CBP One app at the start of 2023 to enable migrants to use it for asylum applications.

During Super Bowl coverage, there was a rage over a Chinese-owned Temu running SIX ads: 'Congress must look into this'

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 12, 2024
After the Chinese Communist Party's online marketplace Temu aired multiple ads during the Super Bowl on Sunday, lawmakers are being criticized. During Super Bowl LVIII coverage on CBS from the pre-kick to the post-game, Temu, which is owned by the Chinese online shopping behemoth, aired six ads in total.' Despite numerous lawmakers' demands that the super bowl host keep the ads from the lineup for the big game between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers over the company's use of forced labour, the blitz came.

The Super Bowl is a contest between Republicans and China: Host CBS chastised for allowing Temu's CCP-backed online store Temu to run over $6 million ad during the game on Sunday, but Republicans want Taylor Swift in and China out of the Super Bowl

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 9, 2024
Two Republican senators have urged Super Bowl host CBS to remove an advertisement from the lineup for Sunday's big game, shaming the corporation for its links to China and forced labor practices. Senator Roger Marshall and Indiana Senator Mike Braun all requested that the Super Bowl host delete the ad from the China-backed online store in a letter sent by CBS and its parent company Paramount Global, Kansas Marshall, and Indiana Senator Mike Braun.

Republicans are planning to hold Biden's anticipated $100 billion dollar funding, beginning with Israel, Ukraine, and a sanctuary city'bailout' funds, which must be identified separately

www.dailymail.co.uk, October 19, 2023
Top Republicans are planning how to keep up President Biden's proposed $100 billion request, saying that if Israel, Ukraine, and southern border assistance are linked together, there will be no way forward. During a primetime address to the nation Thursday evening, Biden is set to officially unveil the massive relief package, including $60 billion to Ukraine and the remaining $40 billion split between Israel and Taiwan as it faces an increasing threat from China and the southern border. During a stop in Tel Aviv on Wednesday to speak with Israeli leaders and reiterate US support for Israel, the president said he would bring a 'unprecedented assistance package for Israel's defense to Congress.'

On Twitter, Emily Drabinski, president of the American Library Association, confirms she is a 'Marxist lesbian,' leading states such as Montana, have broken ties with the group

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 7, 2023
Emily Drabinski, 48, a political feminist who believes that collective power can be used to create a better world, took the lead in April 2022 (and has since been taken down): "I just can't believe that a Marxist lesbian who believes that collective power can be manipulated for a prosperous world.' Solidarity! My mother is so angry. I love you mom.' Republican lawmakers have joined the protest on Twitter as the reason, in part, for their respective states to defund and abandon the ALA, the oldest and largest nonprofit trade group for libraries.

Friends and family members of elderly Americans have been robbed of $20 billion a year

www.dailymail.co.uk, June 16, 2023
According to a shocking new survey, seniors in the United States are losing $20.3 billion each year to "professional exploitation" by their acquaintance and relatives. Adults over the age of 60 were expected to'stripped of a significant portion of their retirement savings' by relatives who improperly use their money, property, or assets, according to experts. According to the American Association of Retired People (AARP), a further $8 billion is lost in cases where the perpetrator is a stranger to the victim. All in all, it means that over 60 percent of seniors are being swindled out of $28.3 billion annually, only exacerbating America's growing retirement crisis, which is causing older workers to return to work to deal with rising living costs.

Senate Republicans have requested that a special counsel look into Hunter and Joe Biden's company dealings

www.dailymail.co.uk, June 14, 2023
A group of Republican senators is urging Attorney General Merrick Garland to prosecute "any wrongdoing" by the first family as details regarding an alleged $5 million 'arrangement' for a swap of funds for political decisions between then-Vice President Joe Biden and a foreign national remain to surface. According to a 'highly credible' whistleblower, an internal FD-1023 memo issued in 2020 based on data from a highly paid FBI informant, which presumably discloses the suspected bribe. Sen. Ted Cruz of the United States Sens. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., JD Vance, R-Ohio, and R-Ind. Mike Braun, R-Ind., state gov.

Since leaving Rep. Banks with a sick note threatening his family, a man was charged with coercion

www.dailymail.co.uk, June 6, 2023
Since levying eerie threats against the congressman and his family, an Indiana man was charged with intimidation and harassment of Rep. Jim Banks. According to a probable cause filing obtained by the Indiana Capital Chronicle, Aaron L. Thompson, 34, called Banks' offices at least eight times, leaving several harassing emails. 'Here's the choice - Your daughters grow up without their father or you die without your children,' he said in one of the voice messages to the congressman's office, adding, 'Boom, boom you pick.'

Did two lab leaks trigger COVID? According to the survey, Wuhan virus sources are unknown

www.dailymail.co.uk, April 18, 2023
Another congressional report on the origins of COVID-19 found that the pandemic was most likely caused by at least two lab leaks from the Wuhan lab in China. Sen. Roger Marshall's new 301-page Senate report on Monday night details a string of previous failures at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China and claims there are no reported cases of COVID-19 that have occurred naturally. Marshall, a doctor by trade and a leading Republican contributor to the Primary Health and Retirement Security Subcommittee, said the paper is "critical in exposing those that tried to conceal how this pandemic outbreak began."

Biden walks AWAY from reporters and blows off question on the COVID lab leak bombshell

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 3, 2023
After a bombshell study, Trump threw up his hands and walked away from reporters at the end of a week marked by repeated questions about COVID-19's sources. When he left the White House on Friday, Biden at first seemed to be eager to speak to reporters. But then he turned around and walked away as he was asked if he'd hold China'accountable.'

The House has approved a bill to prohibit a 'woke' Biden Plan, which is pushing retirement planners to invest in ESG in 401Ks

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 28, 2023
A vote of disapproving rose 216 to 204, with one Democrat, Rep. Jared Golden of Maine, voting with Republicans to oppose the rule. Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky., introduced the bill, and Sen. Mike Braun, R-Ind., also supported it, with the support of at least one Democrat, Sen. Joe Manchin, R-Ind. Acts Braun and Barr could compel a vote on their bill to nullify the DOL's rules. The bill only needs a simple majority to pass and be delivered to the president, but it can also be vetoed by the president.

Joe Manchin is among Republicans who have pledged to depose Biden's 'woke' retirement laws

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 1, 2023
Sen. Joe Manchin led the Republicans in signing a bill that would postpone a new Biden administration rule that allows environmental, socioeconomic, and governance (ESG) factors to play a role in retirement planning decisions. Sen. Mike Braun, R-Ind., is presenting a disapproving resolution of a Department of Labor (DOL) ruled that his office will be brought to the Senate floor in the coming weeks. All 49 Senate Republicans and Manchin, a centrist Democrat from West Virginia, endorse his bill. The DOL released a rule in November that allowed retirement managers to account for ESG factors, reversing a rule that had mandated that these managers concentrate on getting the highest returns for the 152 million Americans who invest with the ERISA retirement scheme.

After announcing a Senate bid, GOP Rep. Jim Banks has invited Trump to campaign with him in Indiana

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 17, 2023
Banks spoke with DailyMail.com right before announcing his Senate bid on Tuesday morning, promising to be a 'conservative warrior' for Indiana as he begins his state's 2024 cycle. Having been elected the same year as the former president, the military veteran branded himself part of the 'new generation' of legislators who were swept by a surge of support for Trump's style of GOP politics. However, Banks were quick to draw lines between himself and the 'establishment' Republicans in his public appearance and part of his interview. The radical left is at war with America, and if we aren't going to fight back against it, we've lost.' 'I'm not the kind of leader who's ever going to give up,' Banks told DailyMail.com. "And there are some Republicans that want to return to the old school era of establishment politics, where we go along to get along, but I don't think this will work anymore."

Sen. Herschel Walker's demise isn't surprising, according to Republican senators

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 7, 2022
After losing by around three points to incumbent Democrat Raphael Warnock, the knives fell out for the former NFL star, who was plagued by domestic violence allegations and allegations that he paid for multiple women's abortions despite staking out a pro-life position. In a news briefing released Wednesday, Sen. Mike Braun, R-Ind., who is leaving the Senate to run for governor in 2024, said, 'Candidate quality does count.' But Walker wasn't the only one to blame, he also cited a lack of a political platform to mobilize voters. We are really for nothing if there isn't a concrete idea of what you're looking for, and we're sure about it along the way.' And after we're elected, we say, 'Well, maybe we'll tell you after we're elected.' It isn't going to be easy. 'Ben Braun said that Democrats are political entrepreneurs.'

PITIES Joe Biden, the brother of late Rep. Jackie Walorski, was named after the President mistakenly called for her

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 29, 2022
After Walorski was killed in a car crash on August 3, 2022, Keith Walorski said he was not angry at the president and added that he talked with Biden. Walorski told the New York Post Biden that he'd doing the best he can do with what he has right now," and he regrets for the president's decision, adding that it's 'par for the course' for the 79-year-old Biden. Biden is forgetful due to his age, and he did admit that it's 'a nice way of putting it'. "I don't think anyone will look at the things he's done and said that his mind is as sharp as it should be," Walorski said.

After Graham receives mixed reception, Mike Pence BACKS federal abortion ban efforts

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 14, 2022
Even as senior Republicans hold distance from Lindsey Graham's new 15-week ban, Pence reiterated his support for "any and all attempts to advance the cause of life" on Tuesday. It was imperative that Republicans' participation in the war not to shrink from it,' not shrink from the fight,' he said.' He made his remarks just hours after Graham announced his new ban, which would go into place around the world if enacted. In the aftermath of the Supreme Court's ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, top Republicans said they preferred to leave abortion policy up to the states.

Lindsey Graham's new 15-week abortion ban was branded by the White House as 'extreme.'

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 13, 2022
Since Graham introduced a national 15-week ban, the White House didn't have to go back too far to find remarks from Sen. Lindsey Graham that "states should determine the issue of abortion.' Sec. White House Press Sec. On the day he rolled out a new abortion ban, Karine Jean-Pierre spoke about Graham's latest remarks on the day he rolled out a new abortion ban. It would encourage tighter controls to remain in place, but it would place the ban in states with much less stringent limits. The bill was also branded "extreme" by the woman.' Democrats want to codify Roe vs. Wade with their own legislation.

During a pro-life news conference, Lindsey Graham was confronted by a woman who had abortion at 16 weeks

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 13, 2022
Republicans' first piece of legislation concerning the procedure after the Supreme Court reversed the historic 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade. Since 15 weeks of pregnancy threatens the mother's life and the rape, the rape victim must have sought medical attention and counseling for the injury at least 48 hours before her abortion, his bill provides exceptions for abortions. At one point, the South Carolina senator resigned into Democrats' bill to protect abortion rights, saying that the US has a lax legal window, which puts the US on par with countries like Syria and Iran.