Sanders camp quietly pushes Ro Khanna presidential bid...Top progressives are encouraging the California congressman to run in 2024 if Biden doesn't

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There's a pretty massive caveat to these folks pushing Ro Khanna to run - they don't want him running against Biden.

Sanders camp quietly pushes Khanna presidential bid

Top progressives are encouraging the California congressman to run in 2024 if Joe Biden doesn’t seek reelection.

www.politico.com

 

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excerpts:

The talks between Khanna and current and former Sanders advisers offer a window into the hushed, behind-the-scenes conversations that Democrats are having in the event that Biden doesn’t seek reelection. They also demonstrate that a key part of Sanders’ brain trust is looking to Khanna, a close ally to the Vermont senator, as his heir apparent.

“I think Ro would be a very effective candidate,” said Longabaugh, who stressed that he was only referring to a scenario in which Biden did not run again in 2024. “This guy has a message that’s very powerful. … Ro is basically saying, ‘Is there a way in which we can reconstruct the economy so that all of the wealth is not just being generated on the East Coast, West Coast, or out of my congressional district?’”

Khanna has long operated like someone interested in running for president. He’s spent considerable time in the early-voting states campaigning with Sanders as a co-chair of his 2020 presidential bid.

Khanna has also leveraged his connections in Silicon Valley to bring technology jobs to the early presidential states. In 2018, Khanna toured historically Black colleges and universities in South Carolina with Rep. Jim Clyburn and later helped establish a partnership between Zoom and Claflin University. During the 2020 presidential cycle, Khanna used his campaign funding to place more than $100,000 worth of print ads in Iowa, which boosted his efforts to create tech jobs in the state, including in rural areas. Khanna also helped deliver a $1 million grant for Iowa State University, as well as scholarships, digital apprenticeships and other investments to the state.

More recently, Khanna has appeared on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” and “Real Time with Bill Maher” to publicize his book, “Dignity in the Digital Age: Making Tech Work for All of Us,” as well as at in-person and virtual events in Pennsylvania, New York and California.

 

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Never heard tell of him.

 

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Never heard tell of him.

that's what they said of Obama

 

[1srelluc]

that's what they said of Obama

Yeah, but I still had never heard tell of him.

IMHO if anyone comes out of CA to mount a serious primary challenge it will be Newsome.

BTW.....Iowa means less and less with each passing cycle especially given the cluster-fuck the dems there had last go-round.