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Ro Khanna Psychoanalyzes His Own Party

In a wide-ranging and deeply revealing conversation, the progressive Silicon Valley congressman discusses Biden’s re-election odds, Kavanaugh’s politics, Kamala Harris’s future, and the politics within his own conference as the Pelosi retirement rumors swirl.

Rep. Ro Khanna
Rep. Ro Khanna. Photo: Bill Clark/Getty Images
Tara Palmeri
July 5, 2022

Ro Khanna, the “progressive capitalist” congressman representing the high-net-worth territory comprising southern Silicon Valley, is regarded as a meteoric element within the Democratic Party, equally at home working across the aisle as he is on the left’s left flank. He is also, of course, widely known in Washington as an adroit but outspoken, and occasionally blunt, political talent, ambitious but unconcerned about throwing jabs at Democratic leadership or schooling the White House. That’s why I called him.