The average voter in Ohio might have no idea who he is — he’s working on that — but Khanna’s angling to be the Democratic Party’s forward-facing industrialist, revitalizing manufacturing across for…
Ro Khanna was first elected as a whiz kid evangelist for Silicon Valley, the heart of his congressional district and home to Apple, Cisco and Intel’s headquarters. Today, though, the Californian’s stumping for a different crowd.
Turning a bumper-sticker slogan into actual policy from a divided Congress may prove to be a near-impossible task. And yet Khanna, despite acknowledging that he lacks buy-in from his colleagues, seems undeterred. His visits to the Rust Belt — as one of the wealthiest House members representing its wealthiest constituency — have been met with a skeptical, but curious, enthusiasm.
But on Capitol Hill, Khanna doesn’t yet have Democratic allies on board with his moon-shot initiative, let alone Republicans. A key GOP counterpart on the Chips Act, Senator Todd Young of Indiana, is wary of moving too quickly to duplicate a framework that’s only just being rolled out. A main industrialist of Khanna’s own party, Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown, hadn’t heard of Khanna’s plan, dubbed a national economic development council, when asked about it last month.
And so a decade since his first serious run for Congress, Khanna finds himself a dutiful Biden surrogate with a healthy resume of factory town visits; a regular Fox News presence whose colleagues see in him a reasonable, if idealistic, partner; and the darling of Sanders 2020 veterans who want to mold him into the next progressive torchbearer.California’s 17th District is best explained via superlatives.
Khanna modeled his second campaign on Obama-style coalition politics and staffed it with Obama veterans. But publishing Entrepreneurial Nation: Why Manufacturing is Still Key to America’s Future and getting endorsements from bigwigs like Sheryl Sandberg and John Doerr failed to win over the people for whom Silicon Valley was not a tech utopia, and instead just where they happened to live.
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