Ro Khanna
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And I ran against an incumbent in my own party.
And he was a Holocaust survivor, someone I respect.
But people said, you're going to kill your career.
How can you run against this guy?
And it was the first anti-Iraq war campaign in the entire country.
And I got killed.
He got 71%.
I got 19%.
And, but I didn't, I thought I was right.
I kept staying at it.
You were right.
You know, I kept at it.
And then Obama won, and that's when I got my break, because I had worked on his very first campaign when he was a professor at University of Chicago, and I was a student there.
I had knocked on some doors, and so I got to go work for him at the Commerce Department.
And then I came back and I said, OK, let me give it one more try.
And I lost again.
Why did I lose twice?
Because I didn't know all these rich people.
I didn't have a machine.
I wasn't related to Nancy Pelosi.