CHICAGO (CBS) — With just over a week until Election Day 2024, a couple of elections—one in Indiana, the other in Illinois—are of great potential import.
Republican Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb is term-limited out, so the race to replace him is on. Indiana voters will decide between a current U.S. senator on the Republican side, and a former elected head of the state’s schools on the Democratic side.
Meanwhile in Illinois, U.S. Rep. Eric Sorensen (D-Illinois)—whose 17th District does not include any part of the Chicago area, but does snake around to include Rockford, the Quad Cities, Galesburg, Peoria, Bloomington-Normal—is facing a challenge for which the winner could help tilt the balance of power in Congress.
In Indiana, U.S. Sen. Mike Braun (R-Indiana) wants to succeed Holcomb.
“I’m one that solves problems, knows how to get it done,” Braun said at a gubernatorial debate.
Braun’s challenger, former elected Indiana schools boss Jennifer McCormick, is running as education proves to be a major issue for the state.