Mike Braun Projected to Win Indiana Senate Race Over Incumbent Donnelly

Businessman Mike Braun is projected to win the Indiana Senate race, according to an analysis of the vote totals, unseating incumbent Joe Donnelly in a huge win for the Republicans.

Donnelly was one of 10 Democratic Senate incumbents battling for re-election in states that President Donald Trump won in 2016.

Trump campaigned multiple times in recent days in Indiana with Braun, including on Nov. 5 in Fort Wayne.

More than 13,000 people traveled to Memorial Coliseum to see the pair.

Trump told them: “A vote for Mike Braun is a vote to keep your jobs going, to keep your wages going up and to take care once and for all” of health care reform.

JUST IN: Republican Mike Braun will win the U.S. Senate race in Indiana, @ABC projects based on vote analysis. https://t.co/QF15MHa8Bu #ElectionNight pic.twitter.com/shodjgmqKd

— ABC News (@ABC) November 7, 2018

Joe Donnelly (D) has lost to challenger Mike Braun (R) in IN-SEN. First Republican pickup of the night in the Senate, and one that a lot of forecasters had as Lean D.

All my contacts inside the IN GOP & Braun campaign insisted he was going to pummel Donnelly. They were right.

— Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON* (@EsotericCD) November 7, 2018

#INSEN: Mike Braun (R) defeats Joe Donnelly (D). GOP flip. Indiana voted 57%-38% for Trump in 2016.

— Cook Political Report (@CookPolitical) November 7, 2018

#BREAKING: GOP challenger Mike Braun beats Donnelly in Indiana Senate race https://t.co/wFrY2l1B5C pic.twitter.com/7IPiWoEE36

— The Hill (@thehill) November 7, 2018

He said Donnelly, who voted against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, is “an extreme liberal Democrat.”

Donnelly “will be totally against us, he’ll never vote for us, he will never, ever vote for us,” Trump added.

Braun told the crowd he wants to help Trump shake up Washington and “drain the swamp.”

“We need more reinforcements (in Congress) from the real world. People that have done something,” Braun said, who owns a national auto parts distribution company in Jasper and has never served in elected office.

The Democrats had a narrow path to seize control of the Senate, and with Braun’s win, that path has pretty much closed.

Close races are projected in other “toss-up” states, including Florida, where incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) is battling Gov. Rick Scott for the Senate seat.

From NTD News