The GOP veteran is seeking a rematch in a competitive congressional race in Indiana
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Exclusive: Jennifer Ruth Green, a U.S. Air Force Academy graduate who served in the Iraq War, said she is “ready to finish the job” as she launches her second GOP bid for Congress in northwest Indiana for a seat long held by Democrats.
“The stakes couldn’t be higher,” Greene said in a campaign launch video first shared with Fox News Digital on Tuesday, as she jumped into the U.S. House race in Indiana’s 1st Congressional District, which is represented by three-term Democratic Rep. Frank Murvan.
Greene, who was five points away from defeating Marvan in the 2022 midterm elections, says a rematch in Indiana could be crucial in determining whether the GOP maintains control of its fragile House majority next year.
“When we oust Frank Murvan and take back Northwest Indiana for the first time since 1928, Republicans will keep the House and prevent extreme Democrats from impeaching President Trump,” Greene stressed in her video.
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Jennifer Ruth Green, a U.S. Air Force Academy graduate and combat veteran who served as Indiana’s chief secretary of public safety, on Tuesday launched her second Republican campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives in Indiana’s 1st Congressional District. (Jennifer-Ruth Green campaign)
“I firmly believe that control of the House may be limited to Indiana’s 1st Congressional District, and I want to be on the team to make sure we can have a credible agenda to support President Trump,” she added in an interview with Fox News Digital.
Greene launched her campaign a day after Republican Gov. Mike Braun called state lawmakers back into a special legislative session to redraw the state’s GOP-dominated congressional districts.
It’s part of a broad Republican effort organized by President Donald Trump and his political team to rally the GOP majority in the House to maintain control of the chamber in the 2026 midterm elections, when the party traditionally in power faces political headwinds and loses seats. Democrats need to win only three seats to regain control of the House of Representatives.
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Trump aims to prevent what happened during his first term in the White House, when Democrats regained the majority in the House of Representatives in the 2018 midterm elections. Democrats, who are resisting, aim to weaken the GOP’s efforts by pressing redistricting in blue-leaning states.
Republicans currently control seven of Indiana’s nine congressional districts, and any new map passed by the state’s GOP supermajority in the Legislature would likely shift the 1st Congressional District from a blue-leaning seat to a red-leaning seat.
“We believe Indiana’s 1st District… will become much more Republican,” a memo from the Green campaign said.
“I support redistricting,” Greene said in her interview with Fox News Digital. “I really believe it’s time for us to fight fire with fire, and we’ve seen how Democrats across the country have seized this opportunity… in their states to gerrymander.
Jennifer Ruth Green, a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, deployed to Baghdad during the Iraq War. (Jennifer-Ruth Green campaign)
Green, following in the footsteps of her father and grandfather, joined the Air Force. She graduated from the Air Force Academy in 2005 and began her military career in aviation before moving on to serve as a special agent with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations and deploying to Baghdad during the Iraq War.
She is currently a lieutenant colonel in the Indiana Air National Guard, and “as Indiana’s Chief Secretary of Public Safety, I have supported our first responders and helped the Trump administration remove dangerous illegal immigrants from our streets.”
She also founded a non-profit religious organization “to help at-risk youth through flight training.”
Greene, who edged out Marvan in her 2022 campaign, is the only major Republican candidate to jump into the 2026 race. In a nod to her fundraising prowess, her campaign memo notes that Greene “is the only candidate Republicans can put forward in this race to raise the money needed to win a tough fight for this seat.”
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, right, greets Democratic Rep. Frank John Murvan of Indiana at a House Appropriations Committee hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on June 5, 2025. (Leah Millis/Reuters)
“When we oust Frank Murvan and take back Northwest Indiana for the first time since 1928, Republicans will keep the House,” Greene said in her campaign video.
If elected to Congress, she pledged to “stand shoulder to shoulder with our President to rebuild American manufacturing for middle-class jobs, fight for bigger wages and lower prices, support our farmers and rural communities, secure the border and deport violent and illegal immigrants, support Blue, and defend the right to life and the Second Amendment.”
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In her interview with Fox News Digital, Greene praised Trump, saying: “I think he’s doing a great job. He’s taking care of our country, and he’s leading it in the right direction.”
Asked if she would like to help the president on the campaign trail, she said, “I look forward to bringing him to Northwest Indiana if he comes.”