{"id":1905110,"date":"2023-03-26T14:11:25","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T18:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ro-khanna-declines-california-senate-run-endorses-barbara-lee\/"},"modified":"2023-03-26T14:12:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T18:12:41","slug":"ro-khanna-declines-california-senate-run-endorses-barbara-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ro-khanna-declines-california-senate-run-endorses-barbara-lee\/","title":{"rendered":"Ro Khanna Declines California Senate Run, Endorses Barbara Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fro-khanna-declines-california-senate-run-endorses-barbara-lee%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1905110&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Rep. Ro Khanna( D &#8211; CA ) declared on Sunday that he would not challenge Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/dianne-feinstein\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dianne Feinstein<\/a>&#8216;s decision to retire in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>After giving the matter months of thought, Khanna declared to CNN that he would support Rep. Barbara Lee( D-CA) in the race rather than Sen. Bernie Sanders( I &#8211; VT)&#8217; s leftist supporters.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion that, despite the joy of Bernie supporters, the House of Representatives is the best, most memorable, and action-packed place for me to serve as a progressive, Khanna told&#8221; State of the Union&#8221; host Jake Tapper.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BREAKING?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BREAKING<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RoKhanna?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RoKhanna<\/a> tells <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jaketapper?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jaketapper<\/a> that he will endorse <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BarbaraLeeForCA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BarbaraLeeForCA<\/a> in the California Senate race. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CNNSOTU?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CNNSOTU<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lgbj0clYTV\">pic.twitter.com\/lgbj0clYTV<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNNSotu\/status\/1639983845423435810?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 26, 2023<\/a>, State of the Union(@ CNNSotu )<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He continued,&#8221; I&#8217;m honored to be co-chairing Barbara Lee&#8217;s system for the Senate and supporting her right. We require a powerful anti-war legislator, and she will fill that position.<\/p>\n<p>California has a primary election program that will only allow for one vote in the U.S. Senate culture. Regardless of party, the top two vote-getters may advance to the general election.<\/p>\n<p>Reps. Adam Schiff and Katie Porter, two other well-known Democratic members of the House, are opponents in the election, but Khanna, whose city is in Silicon Valley, provides Lee with a crucial friend.<\/p>\n<p>Even before Feinstein <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/dianne-feinstein-not-running-for-re-election-in-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced last month<\/a> that she would not run for re-election, Schiff already received a sizable House endorsement from former Speaker Nancy Pelosi( D-CA ).<\/p>\n<p>Khanna expressed&#8221; support&#8221; for Schiff and Porter, two prominent Democrats who raise money, but he praised Lee for giving the Senate a&#8221; different voice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Khanna claimed that she was the only person to voting against Afghanistan&#8217;s never-ending battle. &#8221; She resisted the war in Iraq now vehemently. She collaborated with me in trying to put an end to the Yemeni army and the war powers&#8217; resolution.<\/p>\n<p>He acknowledged that&#8221; picture&#8221; played a significant role in his choice.<\/p>\n<p>There isn&#8217;t a simple African American woman serving in the US Senate. She did take over that position, according to Khanna of Lee. She will represent Northern California alone, and I believe she did unite many democrats. Although the other two are good contenders, I believe Barbara Lee will be particularly good.<\/p>\n<p>In a message on Sunday, Lee <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BarbaraLeeForCA\/status\/1639992869141516288\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expressed her gratitude<\/a> to Khanna. She also displayed some of her communist credentials, including her guidance for the&#8221; Medicare for All&#8221; care system and other causes.<\/p>\n<p>Lee declared,&#8221; I may fight every day to advance our shared liberal agenda of repealing the legislature, ending student debt, and Medicare4All.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) announced on Sunday that he will not run for the seat held by retiring Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) in 2024. After months of consideration, Khanna told CNN he would eschew the encouragement of leftist supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and\u00a0endorse Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) in the race. \u201cI have concluded<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":1905111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[12605,4045,6525,9892,12748,6476,9250,3740],"class_list":["post-1905110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-barbara","tag-california","tag-declines","tag-endorses","tag-khanna","tag-lee","tag-run","tag-senate"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1905110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1905111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1905110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1905110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1905110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}