GOP combat veteran seeks rematch in competitive Indiana congressional race

EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer-Ruth Inexperienced, a U.S. Air Pressure Academy graduate and Iraq warfare veteran, says she is “prepared to finish the mission” as she makes a second Republican bid for Congress in northwest Indiana for a seat lengthy held by Democrats.

“The stakes could not be greater,” Inexperienced mentioned in a marketing campaign launch video first shared with Fox Information Digital on Tuesday as she entered the race for the U.S. Home of Representatives in Indiana’s 1st congressional district, which is represented by three-term Democratic Rep. Frank Mrvan.

Inexperienced, who got here inside 5 factors of defeating Mr. Van within the 2022 midterm elections, says her rematch in Indiana may very well be essential in deciding whether or not the Republican Get together retains management of its fragile majority within the Home of Representatives subsequent 12 months.

“If we fireplace Frank Mrvan and take again northwest Indiana for the primary time since 1928, Republicans will maintain the Home of Representatives and maintain radical Democrats from impeaching President Trump,” Inexperienced emphasizes in her video.

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Jennifer-Ruth Inexperienced, a U.S. Air Pressure Academy graduate and fight veteran who served as Indiana’s first secretary of public security, launched her second Republican bid for the U.S. Home in Indiana’s 1st Congressional District on Tuesday. (Jennifer-Ruth Inexperienced Marketing campaign)

And in an interview with Fox Information Digital, she added, “I firmly imagine that management of the Home of Representatives could come right down to Indiana’s 1st Congressional District, and I need to be a part of the crew to make sure that we will have a reputable agenda to help President Trump.”

Inexperienced launched her marketing campaign the day after Republican Gov. Mike Braun recalled state lawmakers for a particular legislative session to redraw the GOP-dominated state’s congressional districts.

It’s a part of a broad Republican effort orchestrated by President Donald Trump and his political crew to strengthen the Republican majority within the Home of Representatives to take care of management of the chamber in the course of the 2026 midterm elections, when the occasion in energy historically faces political headwinds and loses seats. Democrats want simply three seats to regain management of the Home of Representatives.

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Trump needs to keep away from what occurred throughout his first time period within the White Home, when Democrats regained the bulk within the Home of Representatives within the 2018 midterm elections. Democrats, combating again, are attempting to blunt the Republican Get together’s efforts by encouraging redistricting in blue-leaning states.

Republicans presently management seven of Indiana’s 9 congressional districts, and any new map handed by the state’s GOP supermajority within the Legislature would seemingly shift the first Congressional District from a blue-leaning to a red-leaning seat.

“We imagine Indiana’s 1st District…will turn out to be closely Republican,” a Inexperienced marketing campaign memo mentioned.

And Inexperienced argued in her Fox Information Digital interview: “I am in favor of redistricting. I actually imagine it is time for us to battle fireplace with fireplace, and we have seen how Democrats throughout the nation have seized this chance… of their states to redistrict.”

Jennifer-Ruth Inexperienced, a graduate of the US Air Pressure Academy, deployed to Baghdad in the course of the Iraq Conflict. (Jennifer-Ruth Inexperienced Marketing campaign)

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Inexperienced adopted in her father and grandfather’s footsteps and joined the Air Pressure. She graduated from the Air Pressure Academy in 2005 and commenced her army profession in aviation earlier than transitioning to a particular agent within the Air Pressure Workplace of Particular Investigations and deploying to Baghdad in the course of the Iraq Conflict.

She is presently a lieutenant colonel within the Indiana Air Nationwide Guard and “as Indiana’s first secretary of public security, I supported our first responders and helped the Trump administration take away harmful unlawful immigrants from our streets.”

She additionally based a faith-based nonprofit to “assist at-risk youth via aerospace coaching.”

Inexperienced, who outraised Mrvan in her 2022 marketing campaign, is the one main Republican candidate getting into the 2026 race. Her marketing campaign memo notes her fundraising prowess and touts that Inexperienced is “the one Republican candidate who can emerge on this race to lift the cash wanted to win a hard-fought battle for this seat.”

Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick (proper) greets Democratic Rep. Frank John Mrvan of Indiana throughout a Home Appropriations Committee listening to on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on June 5, 2025. (Lea Millis/Reuters)

“If we fireplace Frank Mrvan and take again northwest Indiana for the primary time since 1928, Republicans will maintain the Home of Representatives,” Inexperienced mentioned in her marketing campaign video.

And she or he pledged, if elected to Congress, to “stand shoulder to shoulder with our President to rebuild American manufacturing for middle-class jobs, battle for greater wages and decrease costs, help our farmers and rural communities, safe the border and deport violent, unlawful immigrants, stand with the blue and defend the fitting to life and the Second Modification.”

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Inexperienced praised Trump in her Fox Information Digital interview, saying, “I imagine he is doing an important job. He is taking good care of our nation and main it in the fitting path.”

When requested if she wanted the president’s assistance on the marketing campaign path, she mentioned, “I stay up for taking him to northwest Indiana if he comes.”