The file

Jim Banks

Republican · U.S. Senator, Indiana · Indiana · Spectrum score +67

Senate ·

Jim Banks is U.S. Senator, Indiana in Indiana. Political positions and ideology score +67 (Far right). Banks is the promotion.

College: Indiana University, B.A. 2004 · Grace College, M.B.A. 2013
Spouse: Amanda Banks
Children: Three
Résumé: U.S. Senator · Indiana · 2025–
U.S. Representative · Indiana-3 · 2017–2025
Indiana State Senate · 2010–2016

Net worth: $2.2M
Salary: $174,000
Before office: $400K
2026 raised: $5.8M
Years in office: 9

Where Jim stands on the spectrum

Jim Banks scores +67 on Spectrum’s left–right line (far right), right of center on the economy and conservative on social issues. The number is modeled from twelve issue positions and the public record — not a poll and not a party label.

Composite +67 · Far right · economic +68 · social +68 · authoritarian +40

Confidence 94. How we calculate scores →

Background & record

Banks is the promotion. The file is a northeast-Indiana Republican who did the caucus work and got a Senate seat for it. Manufacturing PACs, culture votes, a state that does not require poetry.

Finances

Modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit of any household.

Net worth

$2.2M

+450% since taking office

Senate disclosure midpoint, 2025

Before office$400K

Now$2.2M

Indiana House to Senate. Navy Reserve, a Freedom-Caucus-adjacent climb, not a grain fortune.

Money in · 2026 cycle

Raised: $5.8M
Cash on hand: $2.4M

Top industries

Manufacturing PACs
Conservative PACs
Health

Stock holdings

Index / retirement funds

Indiana promotion. Funds.

Disclosure midpoint, 2024–25 · STOCK Act ranges, not an audit

VTI
Vanguard Total Stock Market
Joint
$50K–$250K
VXUS
Vanguard Total International
Joint
$15K–$75K

Ticker	Name	Owner	Range
VTI	Vanguard Total Stock Market	Joint	$50K–$250K
VXUS	Vanguard Total International	Joint	$15K–$75K

Sum of ranges $65K–$325K · midpoint $195K

X sentiment

Last 7 days

Odds

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Conflicts

Hoosier industrial money vs a national culture brand.
2024 Senate as a promotion, not a conversion.

Issue detail

−100 left pole · +100 right pole

Economic: +68
Social: +68
Authoritarian: +40
Confidence: 94

Taxes & spending+74
Lower taxes, smaller fiscal footprint
Health care+62
Private insurance markets, fewer mandates
Climate & energy+70
Energy abundance, fewer climate mandates
Business regulation+70
Deregulation and lighter administrative state
Labor & wages+58
Flexible labor markets, right-to-work
Immigration+68
Tighter borders, more deportations
Abortion+72
Restrictions or bans, fetal personhood
Guns+78
Broad Second Amendment, fewer federal limits
Crime & policing+66
More policing, longer sentences, less bail reform
Schools & speech+76
Choice, against gender/DEI curricula
Defense & alliances+84
Hard power, high defense spending, deterrence
Civil liberties+46
Order, platform / campus / speech restrictions for security or morality

Legislative first dimension (NOMINATE-like): 0.64

Compass

Auth · leftAuth · rightLib · leftLib · rightAuthoritarianLibertarianEconomic leftEconomic right

Sources

House NOMINATE
Senate 2025–26
Wealth and fundraising are modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit.
College, family, and résumé are public-record facts, not a campaign bio.