INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb brandished his front-runner status Saturday as he kicked off his re-election campaign with a rally extolling the state's economy while brushing off any criticism of his record.

Holcomb made his announcement before a few hundred people at Knightstown's Hoosier Gym, which served as the home court for the fictional underdog Hickory Huskers basketball team in the 1986 movie "Hoosiers." But he heads into the 2020 election with $6 million already in his campaign's bank account thanks to his leverage of leading a GOP-dominated state without any high-pr...