Allies of Rep. Ro Khanna of California opened a draft committee called Run Ro, co-chaired by former Rep. Jamaal Bowman and strategist Nomiki Konst. The group can raise money and organize while Khanna decides whether to seek the 2028 Democratic nomination. No Democrat had formally entered the race.
Khanna, who co-chaired Bernie Sanders’s 2020 campaign, said he was honored by the encouragement. He named Medicare for All, an end to foreign wars and taxes on billionaires as the platform people were asking him to run on. He said he and his family would decide after the holidays, and on MS NOW he said he is thinking about a run.