INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana Rep. Julie McGuire doesn’t think her status as Republican gubernatorial nominee Mike Braun’s handpicked running mate should dissuade anti-establishment delegates from nominating her for lieutenant governor.
“I don’t see Mike as an establishment guy. And, I don’t see myself as one,” McGuire told the Capital Chronicle this week. “I’m just coming from a conservative point of view,” said the first-term Indiana lawmaker.
On Saturday, about 1,800 Republican party insiders will choose who’s on the ballot for Indiana’s second-highest office. They’re delegates who will see their first competitive lieutenant governor contest in decades.
Their choices are pastor-influencer Micah Beckwith — who’s been on the campaign trail for a year since launching an unusually public bid — and McGuire, who’s been on the road for the month since her post-primary campaign launch.
Delegates traditionally lean more conservative than Republican general election and even primary election voters. And they haven’t always fallen in line with party leadership.
Read the entire Leslie Bonilla Muñiz story for the Indiana Capital Chronicle, here.
