Current Position: US Senator since 2017
Affiliation: Republican
Former Position: US Representative from 2011 – 2017
Other Positions: Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Counterterrorism
Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Social Security, Pensions, and Family Policy

Young received an appointment to the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, where his classmates elected him a class officer and he earned a varsity letter as a member of Navy’s NCAA Division I soccer team. Young then led the intelligence department of VMU-2, an unmanned aerial vehicle squadron based in Cherry Point, North Carolina. In 2000 while stationed in the Chicago area, Young earned an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. In 2001, he moved to Washington, D.C., where he briefly worked at The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. Then he became a staffer for U.S. senator Richard Lugar.

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We Americans have always been drawn to the frontier. As we face the threat of China, we must decide once again to invest in ourselves and science – the endless frontier. #EndlessFrontierAct

Todd Young and Chuck Schumer JOIN FORCES to combat the rise of China

Current Position: Mayor, Hammond since 2004
Affiliation: Democrat
Candidate: 2022 US Senator

Thomas Matthew McDermott Jr. (born March 4, 1969) is an American attorney and politician from the state of Indiana serving as the 20th mayor of Hammond, Indiana. He took office on January 1, 2004, the first elected government office he has held. He is a member of the Democratic Party.

After winning the general election in November 2015 for a fourth term, McDermott became the longest-serving mayor in Hammond’s history. He was elected to a fifth term in 2019.

The 2022 United States Senate election in Indiana will be held on November 8, 2022 to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Indiana.

Incumbent Republican Senator Todd Young announced on March 2, 2021 that he is running for a second term.Young was first elected to the Senate in 2016 with 52.1% of the vote, succeeding retiring U.S. Senator Dan Coats. Thomas McDermott Jr., the mayor of Hammond ran for the Democratic nomination. Both ran unopposed, and won their respective primaries on May 3, 2022.

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