More progressive antipathy against Khanna

HuffPost reports:

"If Khanna had been successful, it would have been open season. The technology industry would have flooded [future races] to take out numerous progressive voices in the state," said Neil Sroka, the communications director for Democracy for America, a progressive group that directed funds toward Honda's campaign. It also received support from labor unions as well as MoveOn.org, the Sierra Club and Planned Parenthood.

Democracy for America had issued an earlier press release after the primary:

Tonight, Silicon Valley voters decisively chose Mike Honda, the true, grassroots progressive in the race, over the billionaire-backed, Republican-lite Ro Khanna. With the registered Republicans now out of the race, Democracy for America members look forward to continuing to make clear that Mike Honda is the only progressive Democrat in this race -- a job we expect to be made considerably easier as Republican-lite Ro Khanna inevitably begins making the same right-wing pitch to voters that he used to 'win' the support of fringe-right millionaires and billionaires.