Ro Khanna Drops in on CD-12, Tag Teams with Hamawy
PRINCETON - Dubbed a "fireside chat" with political allies U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-
CA) and Dr. Adam Hamawy, this event would only take a matter of time before someone invoked "FDR." Finally, Khanna took a crack at the distance between Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democrats and that version of the party that looked the other way when President Joe Biden shipped unconditional aid to Israel and stopped caring about working people.
"We're unpopular because we had a party that supported the genocide in Gaza and then - from our party, just today - Donald Trump should continue the war on Iran. We're unpopular because we're the party that supported foreign wars. We're unpopular because we're the party that supported policies that hollowed out the working and the middle class with NAFTA and the World Trade Organization leading to jobs being decimated in Western Pennsylvania and Ohio and downriver Michigan. We're unpopular because we supported policies of deregulation that allowed wealth to be hoarded in places like Wall Street and Silicon Valley, which I represent."
A diehard Bernie Sanders backer, Khanna pointed to new emerging progressive leaders who will reforge the Democratic Party into a true working people's coalition, people like
U.S. Rep. Analilia Mejia (D-11), New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, PA. District 3 Democratic nominee Chris Rabb, and, he added, Hamawy.
Polls in a thorny CD-12 contest show Hamawy leading the pack, in part on the strength of his considerable endorsement support from the progressive wing of the party. Last week, the Hamawy Campaign added the support of AOC to the candidate's trophy case, as he tried to succeed retiring U.S. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-12).
Khanna was here to put an exclamation point on that, as he sat beside the retired Army surgeon in a matching easy chair in front of a crowd of about 40 people, who seemed genuinely excited by the prospect of Hamawy winning the Democratic Primary.
InsiderNJ spoke with Khanna about his proposal to expand the United States Supreme Court, which Hamay supports.
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