Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) is treating the long-shot bid of a self-funding egg tycoon as a threat in a Senate primary that he had all but locked up.
Banks, a staunch Trump ally running for outgoing Sen. Mike Braun's seat in Indiana, had been preparing for war with political heavyweight Mitch Daniels, the former governor of the state. But Daniels’s January decision to pass on a run appeared to spare the GOP a protracted and bitter primary.
The broadsides, issued in a series of press releases and tweets, amount to early warning shots by the Banks camp — no real money has been put behind the offensive. But he made clear in an interview with the Washington Examiner that he intends to frame his candidacy as a referendum on “career politicians” like Banks.
“I will spend whatever it takes to get my message out,” Rust said. “That’s not going to be cheap, that’s not going to be a million dollars or whatever. It’s going to be a lot of money. I’m under no illusions, this is a very expensive race and that I have a mountain of outside special interest money coming after me because they cannot control me.”
Banks's allies are waiting to see what Rust does next, but they are promising to wage a full-out assault should he ramp up his attacks. Rust, for his part, suggested he won’t use money from Rose Acre Farms to finance his bid. “I’ve done very well financially outside of my family's business, and that’s how I’m funding my campaign,” he said.
Rust, who did vote in two Republican primaries — in 1996 and 2016 — says his Democratic votes were for pro-agribusiness candidates and fellow churchgoers at the local level and that he’s always voted Republican in state and federal races. He pointed to Federal Election Commission filings showing he’s only ever donated to GOP candidates.
She has no plans to do so, however, telling the Washington Examiner that Rust could have voted Republican in 2018, 2020, or 2022 had he wanted to avoid the roadblock. Getting on the ballot will be no easy lift — he must collect somewhere on the order of 8,000 to 10,000 petition signatures from registered voters to be sure he meets the state threshold.
Banks has developed a reputation as a stalwart conservative in Congress. Until recently, he chaired the Republican Study Committee, the largest conservative conference in the House, and stood up the “Anti-Woke Caucus" in January to focus on culture war issues. Rust previewed some of the attacks he’ll level at Banks, highlighting that he missed the final vote on the debt ceiling bill that passed in May.
“Like, I don't think there's really any single issue where John Rust could even dream of getting to the right of Jim Banks on,” the operative added. In contrast to Indiana's senior senator, Todd Young , Rust says he is opposed to the sort of deal-cutting seen in the upper chamber.Banks's allies have leaned hard into Trump’s endorsement of the congressman, a rarity so early in the cycle. In a state such as Indiana, where Trump beat President Joe Biden by 16 points in 2020, it’s a decided advantage, and the Club for Growth has already cut an ad for Banks highlighting it.
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