Democratic California Rep. Ro Khanna criticized his social gathering for not having a plan in opposition to Republicans past profitable “by default” in the event that they “self-destruct.”
Khanna joined “The Younger Turks” on Monday to debate Democratic plans to succeed in out to individuals who voted for President Donald Trump past what co-host Cenk Uyger known as, “simply yell at them extra.”Â
This led to Uyger asking Khanna whether or not the Democratic Celebration had any actual plans to counter the Trump administration typically. Khanna mentioned the social gathering’s plan seems to be merely ready for Trump’s agenda to fail and hopefully achieve again congressional management consequently.
Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., mentioned Democratic methods for reaching out to Trump voters on “The Younger Turks.” (“The Younger Turks” screenshot)
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“I believe their plan is the plan that Democrats have gone by repeatedly, which is to level out, which is true, that numerous these cuts are going to deeply damage individuals, the Medicaid cuts, the cuts in individuals who hold our planes secure and stop chicken flu and hold our nuclear secrets and techniques secure, fund most cancers analysis,” Khanna mentioned. “Right here’s my drawback with that. I truly assume it’ll work for 2026… positive, so we get again the Home, perhaps we even win the presidency by default. What’s our imaginative and prescient?”Â
He continued, “Is our imaginative and prescient to only to proceed to attempt to win by default as a result of they go too far after which not have a governing majority within the Home or the Senate the place we truly are in a position to handle the legit anger of working-class Individuals of all races? Or are we going to attempt to do one thing significant with the ability we shall be handed? And that to me is the failure of management within the Democratic Celebration. We’re simply being tactical. We’re hoping that they self-destruct.”
Khanna has expressed openness to working with Republicans on frequent objectives. (ALLISON BAILEY/Center East Photos/AFP through Getty Photos)
“Thankfully, they’re self-destructing, however there’s not sufficient focus, as Bernie Sanders says, on a concrete imaginative and prescient going ahead to resolve the large inequality and to know that many individuals who voted for Trump weren’t simply offended, they have been justifiably offended,” Khanna added.
Khanna has been extra open than a few of his fellow Democrats to working with individuals throughout the aisle to attain the identical objectives. In December, he described assembly with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to debate methods to chop again on federal spending whereas preserving authorities energy.
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Khanna spoke about assembly with Elon Musk to debate reducing authorities spending on ABC’s “The Week” in December. (ABC screenshot)
“Nicely, we’ve talked about that. And I made the case to him that Tesla and SpaceX have been funded by the Obama authorities and let’s have a task for presidency. However let’s take a look at what you probably did with Area X. Why can’t we do this with different components of the 5 primes to scale back prices? I believe in terms of protection, getting higher protection for worth and reducing prices, there may be big bipartisan cooperation,” Khanna mentioned on ABC’s “This Week.”
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