Howey: ‘Outsider’ Braun leads the GOP primary showdown

INDIANAPOLIS — The current six-person Republican field for governor is an anomaly. In the television age of Hoosier politics, the GOP usually sorts out the candidates, so there are only one or two by the February primary filing deadline.

Past Republican nominees and governors were not "outsiders" — as two of the candidates in U.S. Sen. Mike Braun and Brad Chambers — are claiming to be this cycle.