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Veteran Indiana House member leaving Trump's Republican Party
Republican Rep. Ed Clere has decided to leave the Indiana General Assembly after 18 years — and says the political changes brought by President Donald Trump have pushed him out of the party.
He has focused much of his legislative time on the state’s social safety net efforts. He has criticized Braun administration cuts to Medicaid, child care and food-assistance programs, saying last month he was “very concerned about the ideological focus” of many state actions.
Clere has broken from fellow Republicans on several high-profile issues in recent years — voting against the 2022 abortion ban bill, a 2023 ban on transgender medical care for minors and a 2025 bill allowing partisan school board elections. All of those won legislative approval and became state law.
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