Beckwith, a pastor at Life Church, plans to run for Indiana’s lieutenant governor

Indianapolis, Indiana – Life Church pastor Micah Beckwith has declared his candidacy for Indiana’s lieutenant governor position. His campaign platform includes promoting education, ensuring public safety, and upholding constitutional rights.

“This is the delegates’ pick,” Beckwith said in a Monday interview with WIBC’s Kendall & Casey show, “we have seen in our country, for far too long, that people are kind of getting appointed like they’re the heir apparent, and that has to stop. We have to take the voice back and give it to the delegates.”

Beckwith claims that, in his opinion, the governor has been afforded the courtesy of selecting their own running mate, but he claims that delegates may do so under Indiana law.

Beckwith, who is co-founder of the Indiana Coalition Conservatives and serves as pastor for Life Church’s Noblesville campus, intends to run as a Republican.

Republican Suzanne Crouch, the current lieutenant governor, is vying for governor in 2024. Dr. Jennifer McCormick, a former superintendent of public instruction, Sen. Mike Braun, Eric Doden, and Donald Rainwater, who is running as a Libertarian again, are just a few of the opponents she faces.

On his campaign website, Beckwith outlines his intentions for education, which include eliminating what he refers to as the “transgender and woke agendas” and eliminating the teaching of Critical Race Theory.

In addition, he pledges to uphold the First and Second Amendments and fight the “defund the police movement.”

Typically, the tasks of the lieutenant governor include leading security councils, serving as secretary of agriculture and rural development, and supervising the tourist and small business agencies.

The state senate would be presided over by the lieutenant position.