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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/07/karen-bass-joe-biden-vp-california-congresswoman

Karen Bass: the progressive congresswoman who could be Biden's vice

2020-08-07 00:00:00, Maanvi Singh, The Guardian

Content Categorization
/News/Politics

Word Count:
1972

Words/Sentence:
24

Reading Time:
13.15 min

Reading Quality:
Adept

Readability:
13th to 15th

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Most of America is just getting to know the 66-year-old congresswoman from Los Angeles who in recent weeks emerged as a top contender to be Joe Biden's vice-presidential running mate.

When the former vice-president earlier this year committed to choosing a woman to join his ticket, public speculation immediately coalesced around Kamala Harris, the California senator who ran against him in the Democratic presidential primaries.

But in California, Bass has built a reputation as a progressive and a pragmatist – a community organizer who fought police brutality and addiction in Los Angeles and a practical politician who helped dig the state out of a historical fiscal crisis in 2008.

Huerta, who supported Kamala Harris in the presidential primaries but recently published an op-ed endorsing Bass for vice-president, said the discussions around the congresswoman's past had created a "fantasma", or ghost, "designed to frighten supporters"."

Even the House minority leader, Kevin McCarthy – a Trump ally who shares almost no political common ground with progressive Bass – has called her his "favorite Democrat" for her ability to negotiate.

Keywords
US elections 2020, US politics, Joe Biden, Democrats, US news

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