|
2024 Indiana Elections ...
The Indiana general election will be held on November 5, 2024. Primary elections will take place on May 7, 2024. Federal offices United States President United States Senate Incumbent one-term Republican Senator Mike Braun has declined to run for a second term in office, opting instead to run for governor. United States House of Representatives State elections Governor Incumbent Republican Governor Eric Holcomb is term-limited and cannot seek re-election to a third consecutive term in office. Attorney general Attorney General Todd Rokita is running for re-election. State House of Representatives State senate References {{Indiana Indiana Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 Indiana Elections
Indiana state elections in 2020 was held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. The primary elections were held on June 2, 2020. Primary candidates for the 2020 Attorney General election were not selected in the primary but in a primary convention on June 20, 2020. In addition to the U.S. presidential race, Indiana voters elected the Governor of Indiana, two of Indiana's executive officers, all of Indiana's seats to the House of Representatives, all of the seats of the Indiana House of Representatives, and 25 of 50 seats in the Indiana Senate. Neither of the state's two U.S. Senate seats were up for election in 2020. Federal offices President of the United States Indiana, a stronghold for the Republican Party and thus a reliable red state, had 11 electoral votes in the Electoral College. Republican Donald Trump won all of them with 57% of the popular vote. United States House of Representatives There are 9 U.S. Representatives in Indiana that were up for election. Republicans w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Indiana Elections ...
The Indiana general election will be held on November 5, 2024. Primary elections will take place on May 7, 2024. Federal offices United States President United States Senate Incumbent one-term Republican Senator Mike Braun has declined to run for a second term in office, opting instead to run for governor. United States House of Representatives State elections Governor Incumbent Republican Governor Eric Holcomb is term-limited and cannot seek re-election to a third consecutive term in office. Attorney general Attorney General Todd Rokita is running for re-election. State House of Representatives State senate References {{Indiana Indiana Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP ("Grand Old Party"), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. The GOP was founded in 1854 by anti-slavery activists who opposed the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which allowed for the potential expansion of chattel slavery into the western territories. Since Ronald Reagan's presidency in the 1980s, conservatism has been the dominant ideology of the GOP. It has been the main political rival of the Democratic Party since the mid-1850s. The Republican Party's intellectual predecessor is considered to be Northern members of the Whig Party, with Republican presidents Abraham Lincoln, Rutherford B. Hayes, Chester A. Arthur, and Benjamin Harrison all being Whigs before switching to the party, from which they were elected. The collapse of the Whigs, which had previously been one of the two major parties in the country, strengthened the party's electoral success. Upon its founding, it supported c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Braun
Michael Kent Braun (; born March 24, 1954) is an American businessman and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Indiana since 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he previously represented the 63rd district in the Indiana House of Representatives from 2014 to 2017. Braun was elected to the United States Senate in 2018, defeating Democratic incumbent Joe Donnelly. Braun opposes the Affordable Care Act, same-sex marriage, abortion, and a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. He has called on the Republican Party to take climate change more seriously. He supported President Donald Trump's trade and tariff policies, although he was an advocate for free trade previously. Braun voted to acquit Trump in the impeachment trial related to the Trump-Ukraine scandal. After Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election and Trump refused to concede, making false claims of fraud, Braun defended Trump's efforts to overturn the election results. Braun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Indiana Gubernatorial Election
The 2024 Indiana gubernatorial election will be held on November 5, 2024, to elect the next governor of Indiana, concurrently with the 2024 U.S. presidential election, as well as elections to the United States Senate and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent Republican Governor Eric Holcomb is term-limited and cannot seek re-election to a third consecutive term in office. Primary elections will take place on May 7, 2024. Republican primary Candidates Declared *Mike Braun, U.S. Senator from Indiana (2019–present) *Brad Chambers, former Indiana Secretary of Commerce *Suzanne Crouch, Lieutenant Governor of Indiana (2017–present) and former Indiana State Auditor (2014–2017) *Eric Doden, former president of the Indiana Economic Development Corporation *Curtis Hill, former Indiana Attorney General (2017–2021) and candidate for Indiana's 2nd congressional district in the 2022 special election Declined *Mit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Politico
''Politico'' (stylized in all caps), known originally as ''The Politico'', is an American, German-owned political journalism newspaper company based in Arlington County, Virginia, that covers politics and policy in the United States and internationally. It primarily distributes content online but also with printed newspapers, radio, and podcasts. Its coverage in Washington, D.C., includes the U.S. Congress, lobbying, the media, and the presidency. Axel Springer SE, a German publisher, announced in August 2021 that it had agreed to buy Politico from founder Robert Allbritton for over $1 billion. The closing took place in late October 2021. The new owners said they would add staff, and at some point, put the publication's news content behind a paywall. Axel Springer is Europe's largest newspaper publisher and had previously acquired ''Insider''. History Origins, style, and growth ''Politico'' was founded in 2007 to focus on politics with fast-paced Internet reporting in gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Holcomb
Eric Joseph Holcomb (born May 2, 1968) is an American politician who is the 51st and current governor of Indiana, serving since 2017. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 51st lieutenant governor of Indiana from 2016 to 2017 under Governor Mike Pence, who left the governorship in 2017 to become the vice president of the United States. Holcomb was nominated to fill the remainder of Lieutenant Governor Sue Ellspermann's term after she resigned on March 2, 2016, to become president of Ivy Tech Community College. He won the 2016 election for governor of Indiana over Democratic nominee John R. Gregg. Holcomb was reelected in 2020 over Democratic nominee Woody Myers and Libertarian nominee Donald Rainwater. Early life and education Holcomb was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He graduated from Pike High School in Indianapolis, and in 1990 from Hanover College in Hanover, Indiana. At Hanover, he joined the fraternity Phi Gamma Delta and served as chapter president. Holc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WFYI (TV)
WFYI (channel 20) is a PBS member television station in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. It is owned by Metropolitan Indianapolis Public Media, Inc. alongside NPR member WFYI-FM (90.1). The two stations share studios between Pierson and Illinois Streets (using a North Meridian Street address) north of downtown Indianapolis, within the city's Television Row section. The TV station's transmitter is located on West 79th Street and Township Line Road on the city's northwest side (near Meridian Hills). After a years-long fight to start public television, much delayed by competing tower site plans proposed by commercial stations, WFYI debuted on October 4, 1970. Its foundation was supported by a women-led fundraising drive to raise the first year's operating expenses. In addition to airing PBS and other public television programs, WFYI also produces programs of local and regional interest. History Prologue Channel 20 was allocated for non-commercial educational use in Indianapo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indiana Attorney General
The Indiana Attorney General is the chief legal officer of the State of Indiana in the United States. Attorneys General are chosen by a statewide general election to serve for a four-year term. The forty-fourth and Attorney General is Todd Rokita. The annual salary of the Attorney General of Indiana is $97,201.78. List of Indiana Attorneys General Territorial State Under the 1816 Constitution of Indiana The Constitution of Indiana is the highest body of state law in the U.S. state of Indiana. It establishes the structure and function of the state and is based on the principles of federalism and Jacksonian democracy. Indiana's constitution is su ... the office of Attorney General was filled by appointment. After the adoption of the 1851 constitution, the office was filled by popular election. ;Parties See http://www.in.gov/library/3239.htm, a list of historic Attorneys General compiled by staff of the Indiana State Library. Notes External links Indiana Attorney Gen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Todd Rokita
Theodore Edward Rokita (born February 9, 1970) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 44th and current Attorney General of Indiana. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he served two terms as Secretary of State of Indiana from 2002 to 2010. When Rokita was elected to office in 2002 at age 32, he became the youngest secretary of state in the United States at the time. Rokita was a candidate to replace Mike Pence in the 2016 Indiana gubernatorial election after Pence withdrew from the race to be Donald Trump's running mate in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. He lost to Eric Holcomb, Pence's lieutenant governor. Rokita vacated his U.S. House seat and unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in 2018. In 2020, Rokita defeated incumbent Curtis Hill for the Republican nomination for Indiana Attorney General, and in November 2020, Rokita won the general e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WFIU
WFIU (103.7 MHz) is a public radio station broadcasting from Indiana University Bloomington (IUB) in Bloomington, Indiana, United States. The station is a member station of NPR, Public Radio International and American Public Media. Together with IUB-owned television station WTIU (channel 30), it is known as Indiana Public Media. Studios are located in the Radio-Television Building on the IUB campus, and the transmitter is located at a site on South Sare Road in Bloomington. Seven translators broadcast WFIU and its second HD Radio subchannel, primarily in areas outside of the main transmitter's coverage area, including Terre Haute and Kokomo. WFIU was established in 1950 and initially served as a training ground for IUB students. It moved to its present frequency in 1951 and was one of NPR's charter members. History Indiana University had been producing radio programming since 1937, but it was not until 1942 that the university filed to established a radio station in the then-n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
