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Republican senator for Indiana
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Braun votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Braun’s actual and predicted Biden support scores
| Biden margin | Biden score | Biden plus-minus |
|---|---|---|
| Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s | How often Braun votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Braun’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
-16.1% | 25.8% | -20.0 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Braun vote | Agree with Biden? | Predicted chance of voting with Biden | Plus-minus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec. 22, 2022 | Providing appropriations for various federal departments and agencies for fiscal year 2023; updating the process of appointing and tallying presidential electors; providing money for humanitarian, security and economic assistance to Ukraine (68-29) Mike Braun's Vote: No | support | No |  | 54.9% | -54.9 |
| Dec. 14, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule governing charter school grants (49-49) Mike Braun's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 14.2% | +85.8 |
| Dec. 1, 2022 | Requiring certain railroad and labor organizations to accept a labor agreement (80-15) Mike Braun's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 86.6% | +13.4 |
| Nov. 29, 2022 | Repealing the Defense of Marriage Act and requiring states to recognize same-sex and interracial marriages performed out-of-state; includes an amendment allowing religious organizations to deny services or accomodations for same-sex weddings (61-36) Mike Braun's Vote: No | support | No | | 41.8% | -41.8 |
| Nov. 15, 2022 | Terminating the national COVID-19 emergency declared on March 13, 2020 (61-37) Mike Braun's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 1.5% | +98.5 |
| Sept. 29, 2022 | Extending government funding and providing money for economic and security assistance to Ukraine (72-25) Mike Braun's Vote: No | support | No | | 61.1% | -61.1 |
| Aug. 7, 2022 | Allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices; extending Affordable Care Act subsidies; expanding tax credits for renewable and clean energy efforts; establishing a 15 percent corporate minimum tax; and other measures (50-50) Mike Braun's Vote: No | support | No | | 13.6% | -13.6 |
| Aug. 4, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47) Mike Braun's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 3.3% | +96.7 |
| July 27, 2022 | Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33) Mike Braun's Vote: No | support | No | | 46.8% | -46.8 |
| June 23, 2022 | Expanding firearm regulations (65-33) Mike Braun's Vote: No | support | No | | 44.3% | -44.3 |
| June 16, 2022 | Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14) Mike Braun's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 80.2% | +19.8 |
| May 26, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48) Mike Braun's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 10.1% | +89.9 |
| May 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine and mask requirements in Head Start programs (55-41) Mike Braun's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.1% | +99.9 |
| April 7, 2022 | Nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (53-47) Mike Braun's Vote: No | support | No | | 18.5% | -18.5 |
| March 28, 2022 | Providing money for semiconductor manufacturing, supply chain improvements and scientific research (68-28) Mike Braun's Vote: No | support | No | | 56.5% | -56.5 |
| March 15, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of the CDC's requirement of masks on planes, trains and buses (57-40) Mike Braun's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 3.6% | +96.4 |
| March 15, 2022 | Nomination of Shalanda D. Young to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (61-36) Mike Braun's Vote: No | support | No | | 43.3% | -43.3 |
| March 10, 2022 | The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31) Mike Braun's Vote: No | support | No | | 52.8% | -52.8 |
| March 8, 2022 | Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (79-19) Mike Braun's Vote: No | support | No | | 72.5% | -72.5 |
| March 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the national COVID-19 emergency declaration (48-47) Mike Braun's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 13.9% | +86.1 |
| March 2, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44) Mike Braun's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 13.2% | +86.8 |
| Feb. 28, 2022 | Protecting the right to an abortion and health care providers’ ability to provide abortion services (46-48) Mike Braun's Vote: No | support | No | | 2.9% | -2.9 |
| Jan. 19, 2022 | Keeping Senate filibuster rules in place to block voting-rights legislation (52-48) Mike Braun's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 2.6% | +97.4 |
| Jan. 13, 2022 | Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44) Mike Braun's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 13.1% | +86.9 |
| Dec. 14, 2021 | Increasing the debt limit (50-49) Mike Braun's Vote: No | support | No | | 13.6% | -13.6 |
| Dec. 8, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates for large businesses (52-48) Mike Braun's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.4% | +99.6 |
| Dec. 7, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the sale of certain weapons to Saudi Arabia (30-67) Mike Braun's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 87.8% | -87.8 |
| Dec. 2, 2021 | Extending government funding (69-28) Mike Braun's Vote: No | support | No | | 53.8% | -53.8 |
| Oct. 7, 2021 | Suspending the debt limit through Dec. 16, 2022 (50-48) Mike Braun's Vote: No | support | No | | 14.3% | -14.3 |
| Sept. 30, 2021 | Extending government funding and raising the debt ceiling (65-35) Mike Braun's Vote: No | support | No | | 45.6% | -45.6 |
| Aug. 11, 2021 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49) Mike Braun's Vote: No | support | No | | 13.7% | -13.7 |
| Aug. 10, 2021 | Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30) Mike Braun's Vote: No | support | No | | 54.7% | -54.7 |
| July 29, 2021 | Providing emergency funding for Capitol security in response to the Jan. 6 attack and for the expansion of the Afghan visa program (98-0) Mike Braun's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| June 22, 2021 | Expanding voting rights and strengthening campaign finance regulations and ethics rules (50-50) Mike Braun's Vote: No | support | No | | 13.6% | -13.6 |
| June 8, 2021 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50) Mike Braun's Vote: No | support | No | | 13.6% | -13.6 |
| June 8, 2021 | Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32) Mike Braun's Vote: No | support | No | | 52.9% | -52.9 |
| May 28, 2021 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (54-35) Mike Braun's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 29.4% | ||
| May 19, 2021 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48) Mike Braun's Vote: No | support | No | | 14.7% | -14.7 |
| May 11, 2021 | Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (52-47) Mike Braun's Vote: No | support | No | | 22.8% | -22.8 |
| April 29, 2021 | Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2) Mike Braun's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.1% | +2.9 |
| April 28, 2021 | Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (52-42) Mike Braun's Vote: No | support | No | | 18.3% | -18.3 |
| April 22, 2021 | Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (94-1) Mike Braun's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.6% | +1.4 |
| March 22, 2021 | Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29) Mike Braun's Vote: No | support | No | | 54.3% | -54.3 |
| March 18, 2021 | Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be secretary of health and human services (50-49) Mike Braun's Vote: No | support | No | | 13.7% | -13.7 |
| March 17, 2021 | Nomination of Katherine C. Tai to be United States trade representative (98-0) Mike Braun's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 16, 2021 | Nomination of Isabella Casillas Guzman to be administrator of the Small Business Administration (81-17) Mike Braun's Vote: No | support | No | | 75.4% | -75.4 |
| March 15, 2021 | Nomination of Debra Anne Haaland to be secretary of the interior (51-40) Mike Braun's Vote: No | support | No | | 21.4% | -21.4 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Michael Stanley Regan to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (66-34) Mike Braun's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 45.5% | +54.5 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30) Mike Braun's Vote: No | support | No | | 54.7% | -54.7 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Marcia Louise Fudge to be secretary of housing and urban development (66-34) Mike Braun's Vote: No | support | No | | 48.7% | -48.7 |
| March 6, 2021 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49) Mike Braun's Vote: No | support | No | | 14.1% | -14.1 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (95-4) Mike Braun's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.7% | +5.3 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15) Mike Braun's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 78.8% | +21.2 |
| March 1, 2021 | Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33) Mike Braun's Vote: No | support | No | | 43.9% | -43.9 |
| Feb. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35) Mike Braun's Vote: No | support | No | | 46.3% | -46.3 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (78-21) Mike Braun's Vote: No | support | No | | 70.2% | -70.2 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7) Mike Braun's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 92.6% | +7.4 |
| Feb. 8, 2021 | Nomination of Denis Richard McDonough to be secretary of veterans affairs (87-7) Mike Braun's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 89.7% | +10.3 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas to be secretary of homeland security (56-43) Mike Braun's Vote: No | support | No | | 28.6% | -28.6 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg to be secretary of transportation (86-13) Mike Braun's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 82.2% | +17.8 |
| Jan. 26, 2021 | Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22) Mike Braun's Vote: No | support | No | | 68.3% | -68.3 |
| Jan. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Janet Louise Yellen to be secretary of the treasury (84-15) Mike Braun's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 79.6% | +20.4 |
| Jan. 22, 2021 | Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2) Mike Braun's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.2% | +2.8 |
| Jan. 21, 2021 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27) Mike Braun's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 73.7% | +26.3 |
| Jan. 20, 2021 | Nomination of Avril Danica Haines to be director of national intelligence (84-10) Mike Braun's Vote: No | support | No | | 85.6% | -85.6 |
| Average | 25.8% | 45.7% | -20.0 | |||
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