Future Democratic hopeful Ro Khanna takes on America’s Heartland from Silicon Valley

By Mackenzie Hawkins | Bloomberg

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.

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 forgotten swaths of the heartland all with an eye towards higher office.

With the public souring on Big Tech and President Joe Biden popularizing a “Made in America” agenda, Khanna is seizing on last year’s Chips Act, a massive

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