Silicon Valley in Iowa: congressman's fight for tech jobs in rural America

Ro Khanna, a California Democrat, pushes initiative in the state amid questions over his own political aspirations

Ro Khanna is not running for president.

Unlike many of his colleagues in Congress, the Silicon Valley congressman was not in Iowa to test the waters for a White House run. His visit was decidedly more ambitious: to bridge the deepening economic divide between urban and rural America.