Dem Rep. Khanna on Platner: ‘We Should Have Listened More to the Signs That Were There’; ‘For Me, It Was a Lesson of Humility’
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KHANNA: "You know, people want to just move on. They want to say, oh, I, I didn’t have that judgment. And what I said, I was actually honest. Look, his platform was one that I was excited about. He was standing for Medicare for all. He was standing against foreign wars. He was standing for workers over the billionaire class. He was a charismatic figure. And like many, I gave him the benefit of the doubt because I wanted his platform. And in retrospect, we should have listened more to the signs that were there. And as a party, if you don’t say you’re wrong, then how are you going to do better? How are you going to do better? In listening to voices like cheyenne and others who were sounding the alarm bells and saying, look, I’m telling you, this is going to lead to possible allegations of--"




