INDIANAPOLIS – Where does U.S. Senate candidate John Rust live? That’s the latest question lobbed by his challenger, GOP favorite U.S. Rep. Jim Banks, as the race for Indiana’s open seat heats up.
In a campaign ad released last month — and in new statements made this week — Banks called out Rust for “lying” about his home address on his voter registration, and while giving a deposition under oath.
But the embattled sixth-generation Indiana egg farmer maintains that he’s lived in his Seymour home for more than three decades.
Rust said he often uses his mother’s house address, about a mile away, as his official residence because he cannot receive mail at his own “house in the woods.”
“We already knew John Rust is a conman — now we know he has committed voter fraud multiple times,” said Congressman Jim Banks. “He price gouged hard-working Hoosier families, lied about being a Republican, and now we know lied under oath about illegally voting from a false address since 1987. He’s unfit to serve in the Senate because he only serves himself.”
Rust called that accusation “absolute ridiculousness.”
“He lives in Virginia and he’s worried about my address in Indiana? It’s insanity,” Rust told the Indiana Capital Chronicle. “My house is in the woods. Where I live, I do not have mail service. So, all my life, I’ve used my mom’s house as my legal address.”
“They’re grasping at straws because they’re looking for anything,” he continued, speaking of Banks’ campaign. “They’re scared to death of me, and so they’re coming up with this crazy stuff that anyone rationally looking at it will just say, ‘Wait, that’s stupid. Why on earth is he talking about this?’”
Read the complete Indiana Capital Chronicle story here.
US Senate candidate John Rust. (via his X account)
U.S. Rep. Jim Banks (via Leslie Bonilla Muñiz/Indiana Capital Chronicle)
