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