Engling to Bayh: Drop the Lies, Explain the Money and Your 2014 Voter Registration
Republican candidate for Indiana Secretary of State Max Engling today pushed back against Beau Bayh’s desperate, false campaign attacks, calling them a pattern of claims designed to distract voters from the Bayh family’s corruption.
“Beau keeps repeating false claims that I'm a multimillionaire profiting from data centers and insider trading. This is unequivocally false; I have no connection to either, and the four stocks I own are worth less than $50,000 total, and I have never sold them,” Engling said.
“The lies don’t end, and it's shameful that the media will not report on how his false and separate attacks are baseless and frankly disqualifying. Now he’s bizarrely lying, claiming I have reckless driving tickets, which is also false. It’s just more lying from a desperate and losing campaign,” Engling said.
Engling called on Bayh to answer for his family’s ties to Leon Black, the Apollo Global Management co-founder who paid Jeffrey Epstein more than $150 million and was repeatedly named in the Epstein case. Leon Black’s donations to Evan Bayh now directly fund his own campaign per public record.
After leaving the Senate in 2011, Evan Bayh joined Black’s firm as a senior adviser and was later named in the Epstein files. That network is now heavily funding Beau Bayh’s campaign.
Today, it was confirmed that Evan Bayh gave the Indiana Democratic Victory Committee $700,000 from his former federal campaign committee, which then passed it to Beau’s campaign. The campaign expects that number to rise to about $2.3 million after further public disclosures.
Moreover, Beau Bayh still hasn’t answered as to why he registered to vote in Indiana in 2014 when he clearly didn’t live here.
Voter records indicate that Bayh claimed his family’s 996-square-foot, one-bedroom Indianapolis condo as his Indiana residence after turning 18 while he was at the same time enrolled in a Washington DC private high school full-time, in-person. The records also indicate that his absentee-ballot materials were mailed to the Bayh family’s home in Virginia.
Indiana code is explicit: you must reside in the state for 30 days to be eligible to register to vote. Beau Bayh’s father was not serving in the U.S. Senate; Beau was not in college or the military when he registered to vote in Indiana.
“Beau Bayh is asking Hoosiers to put him in charge of Indiana’s elections. He owes them a clear account of where he lived when he registered and voted in Indiana,” said Engling.
“The records raise straightforward questions about the Indianapolis condo, his time in Washington, and why his election materials went to Virginia.”
Engling’s latest ad, “Only One,” highlights his support for the SAVE America Act and his commitment to verifying citizenship for federal voter registration, while drawing a sharp contrast between him and Bayh.
“Indiana’s Secretary of State is a position of public trust, not a family inheritance,” Engling said.
“That trust starts with telling the truth. If Beau can’t be honest with voters while asking for the job, why should they trust him once he has it?”