Ok?
I don’t know who Khanna is….
But Politico has just done a piece on the California lawmaker who worked in the Obama admin and is said to be a progressive capitalist, something that proabaly won’t play too well in places like South Carolina, a must primary state…..
But a California run?
The line IS forming up already for a expected vacancy by Senator Feinstain who is 89 years old….
Rep. Ro Khanna said on Wednesday that he’s weighing a Senate bid in California.
But recent moves have sparked a new round of speculation among Democrats in several key states that the California congressman continues to have his eye on a higher office.
Khanna has retained consultants who are veterans of New Hampshire’s primary and Nevada’s. He paid one Iowa firm as well, before the Democratic National Committee made plans to revoke the state’s first-in-the-nation status. He’s also begun to more forcefully draw contrasts with potential political rivals, chief among them transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
Those close to Khanna say he’s keeping his options open ahead of a potential presidential run in 2028 or beyond. But others in his orbit are talking about an even more compressed timeline: running in 2024 if President Joe Biden decided not to.
“I think he would be a great United States senator,” said Mark Longabaugh, a Democratic strategist whose firm did media consulting for Khanna last year. “But I also think, should Biden decide not to run, I think he’s a very plausible candidate for president of the United States. So I think that those decisions are yet to be made.”
Khanna, for his part, denied in an interview that he would go for the White House should Biden ultimately forgo a reelection bid, saying “I’ll rule that out definitively.” He has also said he would support Biden if he were to run. More immediately, he has begun talking openly about a possible run for the Senate as his next step, as other California Democrats formally and informallyannounce their own bids.
“There are a lot of Bernie [Sanders] supporters and progressives who have reached out to me to encourage me to look at the race and what I’ve told them is I will do so over the next few months,” Khanna told POLITICO of a Senate bid.
But despite his protestations otherwise, some consultants whose firms have worked with the congressman in early primary states say they have a different impression about the extent of his political ambitions….
Note….
If Rishi Sunak can get to the top as Prime Minister in the United Kingdom?
Why can’t a American born East Indian try in America?
Nikki Haley will be trying for the Republican Presidential nomination it appaers also….
BTW?….
Khanna has NOT made the polls yet for 2024 Democrats….
image…San Francisco Chronicle