{"id":42181,"date":"2026-08-13T02:40:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T21:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=42181"},"modified":"2026-08-13T02:40:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T21:40:50","slug":"rep-ro-khanna-stands-by-francesca-hong-following-wisconsin-primary-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=42181","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Ro Khanna stands by Francesca Hong following Wisconsin primary loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/khannaro_072226gn02_w.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n        <iframe id=\"instaread_iframe\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Audio Article\" style=\"display:block\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n    <\/p>\n<p><\/instaread-player><\/p>\n<p>Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) on Wednesday defended his endorsement of Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/6023832-crowley-leads-hong-with-wisconsin-governor-primary-too-close-to-call-5-takeaways\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">after her loss<\/a>, while accusing some of \u201ccaricaturing and labeling\u201d her \u201cbased on a few statements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI appreciate that Democrats can have differences over single payer healthcare, free childcare, pausing data centers and other issues @FrancescaHongWI fought for,\u201d Khanna <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RoKhanna\/status\/2087546173926068629\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said in a post on<\/a> the social platform X. \u201cBut caricaturing and labeling candidates based on a few statements is not a politics I believe in.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI have known Fran for years and remain proud to have supported her. She is a daughter of Korean immigrants, a single mother, a small business owner of a restaurant who struggled. As an Asian American, she had to fight for a seat at the table of our party and country. Nothing was handed to her,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/6023019-crowley-wins-wisconsin-governor-primary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">notched a victory<\/a> in the Democratic gubernatorial primary versus Hong, a democratic socialist, Decision Desk HQ called early Wednesday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Crowley\u2019s success in the primary gave center-left and more mainstream Democrats their first major win in recent weeks, after progressive and democratic socialist candidates racked up a number of Democratic primary wins in the last few months.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/6023023-hong-wisconsin-gubernatorial-primary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Republicans and some Democrats<\/a> had gone after Hong for previous comments backing defunding the police and a 2021 call to \u201ccancel Thanksgiving.\u201d In July, Hong said she would not be able to defund the police as governor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI categorically reject the idea that the Democratic party must play the same name calling games as [President] Trump, reducing people\u2019s identity to labels for political games,\u201d Khanna said in his post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis country cries out for moral leadership. We want to rise above division. Let us start to provide it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) on Wednesday defended his endorsement of Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong after her loss, while accusing some of \u201ccaricaturing and labeling\u201d her \u201cbased on a few statements.\u201d \u201cI appreciate that Democrats can have differences over single payer healthcare, free childcare, pausing data centers and other issues @FrancescaHongWI fought for,\u201d Khanna&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/khannaro_072226gn02_w.jpg?w=1280","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-political-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}