By The Huffington Post News Editors
Ro Khanna, a Silicon Valley Democrat, announced Tuesday that he will run for Congress in 2014 against longtime incumbent Rep. Mike Honda (D-Calif.), according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
The YouTube announcement by Khanna, a rising Democratic star, came as little surprise. He opened a campaign account in 2011, but declined to run in 2012. That campaign account has more than $1 million. Perhaps more important than money, Khanna has hired top operatives from President Barack Obama‘s 2008 and 2012 campaign teams to run his own campaign.
Jeremy Bird, Obama‘s 2012 field director, will serve as Khanna’s general campaign consultant, and Steve Spinner, an advisor to almost 50 tech startup companies and an Energy Department stimulus advisor who helped Obama as a fundraising bundler during the 2012 campaign, will be Khanna’s campaign chairman, according to the Contra Costa Times.