Rep. Ro Khanna says he won’t run for the Senate seat of retiring Sen. Dianne Feinstein, and will endorse Rep. Barbara Lee instead.
her Senate campaign last month, has been in the House since 1998 and previously was in both the state Senate and Assembly. She is a co-chair of the Steering and Policy Committee.
Lee has also been chair of the Congressional Black Caucus and a co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. She has a long history of speaking out about the need for Congress to revisit the authorization for the use of military force it passed after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which presidents have used since then as the legal basis to launch military operations.
Khanna nodded to Lee’s having a “unique voice” by being “the lone vote against the endless war in Afghanistan.” “She stood up so strongly against the war in Iraq,” Khanna said. “She worked with me in trying to stop the war in Yemen, the War Powers Resolution. And frankly, Jake, representation matters.”
Khanna also noted that there isn’t “a single African American woman” in the Senate:"She would fill that role. She will be the only candidate from Northern California, and she’s going to, I think, consolidate a lot of progressives."
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