(CA-17) Mike Honda to 'Call the Election' With Race vs. Ro Khanna for 17th Congressional District

[Newsjock]

Source: NBC Bay Area

Congressman Mike Honda said he plans to make a "major announcement" about the election Friday morning, and discuss his "future plans."

Reached by phone before the 10 a.m. news conference, Honda's spokesman Vivek Kembaiyan confirmed that Honda would "call the election."

As of Friday morning, the longtime congressman (D-San Jose) was ahead with 52 percent of the vote. His challenger, fellow Democrat Ro Khanna, had not yet conceded. Khanna's spokesman, Tyler Law, said: "Given the small increments that have been coming out from the registrar of voters, we'll have to make a decision until we see the next round of numbers."

... Khanna's endorsers featured an impressive array of major Silicon Valley executives including Facebook chief operating executive Sheryl Sandberg, Google Inc. head Eric Schmidt, Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer and other business leaders from tech firms like Microsoft, Oracle and Yelp.

Read more: http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Mike-Honda-Call-Election-Big-Announcement-Ro-Khanna-17th-Congressional--281930931.html

[CANDO]

1. Ok, I'm confused

This is 2 Democrats running in the General Election? Shouldn't that have been settled in a Primary?

[Newsjock]

2. California started top-two 'jungle primaries' this year

Top two vote getters advance, regardless of party. Khanna is for all practical purposes a Republican anyway.

[CANDO]

3. Thanks for the info.

That sounds reasonable.

[Plucketeer]

4. And also explains his "support"! nt

[hvn_nbr_2]

5. I live in this district

In the primary, it became clear that somebody with big bucks was trying to buy this seat for Khanna. I swear that at least three forests were clearcut to make the paper for his daily (and sometimes more) glossy flyers, speaking wingnut code talk. This was a test case for the plutocracy proclaimed in Citizens United. It's no surprise that all the major company CEOs were backing him--they're also the same executives who did the conspiracy to restrict their workers' ability to advance their careers by secretly agreeing not to hire each others' engineers. There were a number of threads about that here on DU when the civil case was in court.