- Ro Khanna announced Sunday that it will endorse Rep. Barbara Lee in the 2024 California Senate election.
- Progressive congressmen favor Lee over fellow Democrats Katie Porter and Adam Schiff.
- Khanna said in the announcement that Lee brings a “unique voice” to the Senate.
Democratic Rep. Law Khanna, a prominent progressive who was considered a frontrunner in the 2024 California Senate election, will run on Sunday to replace retired Senator Diane Feinstein. He said he didn’t mean to throw his support behind liberal icons. and longtime Rep. Barbara Lee.
“I have, despite a lot of enthusiasm from the Bernie people, The best place, the most exciting place for me to serve as a progressive is the House of Representatives,” he said. Said Appearing on CNN’s “This Week”.
“I co-chaired Barbara Lee’s Senate campaign and am honored to endorse her today. We need a strong anti-war senator and she will fill that role,” he continued.
Feinstein, 89, will retire next year after being first elected to the Senate in a 1992 special election.
Khanna endorsed Lee, a fellow congressman from the San Francisco Bay Area, praising her anti-war record and saying the congressman will be a “unique voice” in the Senate.
Khanna’s move also means he’s endorsing Lee over fellow Democrats Katie Porter and Adam Schiff. most likely candidate at the head of the party.
Congressman Bernie Sanders, the national co-chair of the 2020 presidential election, said in an interview with CNN that he respects both Porter and Schiff, but Lee’s nearly 25-year tenure in Congress told
“Barbara Lee has a unique voice,” said Khanna. “She was the only voter who opposed the endless war in Afghanistan. She opposed the war in Iraq very strongly. She worked with me to stop the war in Yemen and the War Powers Resolution. bottom.”
“And frankly, representation is important. There is not a single African-American woman in the U.S. Senate. She fills the role. She is the only candidate from Northern California, and she The other two are formidable candidates, but I think Barbara will be very strong.
lee who announced Her campaign last month was former chairman of the Congressional Black caucus and former co-chairman of the Congressional Progressive Party caucuses.
Under California’s primary election system, all candidates for the Senate run together on the same ballot, with the top two vote-getters advancing to the general election regardless of party.
If Lee wins the general election in the Golden State, where Republicans have not won a Senate election since 1988, she would become just the third black female senator in U.S. history.