Name: Ro Khanna talks Obama, Biden, and a DNC in Disarray
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Ro Khanna talks Obama, Biden, and a DNC in Disarray' from TAFS Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-06-09. Transcript available.

So you're an attorney, Chicago, and then you campaigned for Obama, and then you're
appointed in '09 by Barack Obama.
Yeah.
I mean, I don't want to exaggerate my campaign.
Well, he was running for the state Senate, and I knocked on a few doors for him
back
then.
Yeah, yeah.
He was running against Alan Keyes, right?
That was the Senate.
When I was a student at Chicago, I was '96, he was running for the state Senate,
and I
knocked on...
Was it Blagojevich's former seat or something?
Well, the Senate seat was...
This is what I worked on.
He was running for the state Senate, state legislature in 1996.
How much interaction did you have with the former President Obama?
As an appointee?
As an appointee, almost none, 'cause I was like a Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Commerce,
which is like, you know, fine, but not like up there.
Come on, don't shit on you.
You're Deputy Assistant Assistant Secretary of Commerce.
The longer your title in D.C., the less important you are.
Were your parents like, "I can't believe you're the only Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Commerce."
What is it?
Deputy Assistant Assistant Secretary of Commerce.
Sounds nice to me.
Yeah, but then after I got to Congress, probably now a couple times a year.
A couple times a year.
Yeah.
And what's his vibe?
He's very cerebral.
He's calm.
Yeah.
He's got a sarcastic sense of humor.
Really?
And he's relaxed.
You know, he's not, he's not, you know, he's no longer in the whole zone.
Okay.
And I want to mention this.
You were co-chair of Bernie's campaign in 2020, right?
Yeah.
It seems like our former president, if you think about everything that's
happened since
he was president, it's been now the third presidential election since he's left
office, that his influence
on that primary was pretty much, it was that and now he's making Netflix.
Well, I mean.
Right.
Come on.
Come on, bro.
I didn't agree.
Look, I didn't agree.
I don't know what his role was, but certainly I didn't agree with people
coordinating to drop
out of the primary, but Buttigieg and Doris again.
So who was it?
I mean, I don't know if it was Pelosi or who, I don't know who, there were
certainly powers
that be in the Democratic primary, DNC.
You can't take the shot.
Well, I.
You're still with the boys.
With who?
With Bernie?
You're still in the world.
To me.
But you blame him, you don't blame all the other things that happened, the DNC
and they basically
cut deals, Biden's team, with these other candidates to get them out of the
race.
And they all dropped, they all endorsed.
How did that feel?
Terrible.
I mean, it felt like it was taken from us.
They fucked us.
They did.
I mean, look, it never has happened that someone in modern times wins these
early states.
New Hampshire, Iowa, Nevada and loses.
I mean, it's just usually it's like you're off to the races.
And I think Bernie would have won in 2020.
I'm not sure, to be honest, whether he would have won as decisively as Biden,
but he would have won.
Against Trump?
Yeah, he would have won Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan.
Whether he would have won Georgia or Arizona, it's an open question, but he
would have won.
And had he won, we would have fought for a living wage, $15 wage.
You know, Bernie and I called for firing the parliamentarian to get that wage
increased.
We didn't get the wage increase.
increased.