http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/evan-bayh-readying-indiana-senate-comeback-run-225360Evan Bayh readying Indiana Senate comeback run
By Maggie Severns
07/11/16 10:31 AM EDT
Democrat Baron Hill is dropping out of the Indiana Senate race and will be replaced as the Democratic nominee by former Sen. Evan Bayh, upending the race in a state Republicans expected to hold easily this fall.
Bayh, who is also a former governor of Indiana, still has approximately $9.3 million in a federal campaign account that has sat nearly dormant since he left the Senate in 2010. GOP Sen. Dan Coats won the seat that year but is retiring this fall.
Hill, a former House member, was preparing to face GOP Rep. Todd Young in the general election.
Hill’s campaign manager, Brad Howard, told POLITICO on the phone that Hill is leaving the race and Bayh is replacing him, but said afterwards he meant to be talking to someone who is not a member of the press.