Mike Braun Hammers Joe Donnelly for Hillary Clinton Support, Opposition to Brett Kavanaugh

Joe Donnelly, Mike Braun
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Hoosier businessman Mike Braun slammed Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-IN) in a campaign ad released Thursday for supporting Hillary Clinton. He also took issue with his opposition to confirming Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

Braun, the Indiana Senate Republican candidate, released a campaign ad hammering the Hoosier Democrat for opposing Kavanaugh, supporting Obama’s Iran nuclear deal, outsourcing jobs to Mexico, and supporting Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential election.

“Hillary for President? And Donnelly says he’s for common sense? Sorry, Senator, you’re just not one of us. You’re one of them,” the narrator in the ad said.

“Hoosiers know it’s not what you say, it’s what you’ve done: Senator Donnelly joined the extreme left in opposing Justice Kavanaugh, fell in line with President Obama’s dangerous Iran nuclear deal, profited from outsourcing Hoosier jobs to Mexico, and worked nonstop to elect Hillary Clinton,” said Braun in a press release on Thursday. “Donnelly will say anything, but look at what he’s done: he’s not one of us, he’s one of them.”

Donnelly’s opposition to Kavanaugh caused the Indiana News-Sentinel to publish an editorial urging Hoosier voters to vote “no” against the Indiana Democrat for another term in the U.S. Senate.

Braun’s new ad comes off the heels of an exclusive Breitbart News report which revealed that the Indiana GOP filed a Senate Ethics complaint over Donnelly’s “illegal” use of an official Neil Gorsuch photo in a campaign ad.

Last year the Associated Press (AP) reported that while Sen. Donnelly criticized Carrier Corp. for moving manufacturing jobs to Mexico, he profited from a family business that relied on Mexican labor to produce dye for ink pads.

Donnelly, during his first run for the House in 2004, railed against the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and called “outsourcing,” “a fancy term for ‘Someone in Indiana has just lost their job.”

Braun told Breitbart News in an interview that in contrast to Donnelly, he hires exclusively in the United States and most of his suppliers for his business also come from America.

The Indiana Senate race has become increasingly competitive; a Fox News poll found that Sen. Donnelly leads Braun by only two points, well within the survey’s margin of error.

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