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Over 1,000 new deaths and 57,000 new US coronavirus cases yesterdayDonald Trump claims Joe Biden is ‘against God’President bans transactions with Chinese-owned TikTok and WeChatSign up to our First Thing newsletter 11.54am BST While we wait for that Joe Biden VP pick, my colleague Maanvi Singh in San Francisco has been assessing one of the names that has been in the frame: Karen BassMost 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. 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. The congresswoman is “someone who can heal our country – not just from the pandemic, but also from the racial divisions, the economic divisions”, said legendary labor organizer Dolores Huerta Related: Karen Bass: the progressive congresswoman who could be Biden’s vice-president 11.50am BST What a tease.Several sources tell me that Joe Biden has chosen his VP running mate. Continue reading…
- Over 1,000 new deaths and 57,000 new US coronavirus cases yesterday
- Donald Trump claims Joe Biden is ‘against God’
- President bans transactions with Chinese-owned TikTok and WeChat
- Sign up to our First Thing newsletter
11.54am BST
While we wait for that Joe Biden VP pick, my colleague Maanvi Singh in San Francisco has been assessing one of the names that has been in the frame: Karen Bass
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. 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. The congresswoman is “someone who can heal our country – not just from the pandemic, but also from the racial divisions, the economic divisions”, said legendary labor organizer Dolores Huerta
Related: Karen Bass: the progressive congresswoman who could be Biden’s vice-president
11.50am BST
What a tease.
Several sources tell me that Joe Biden has chosen his VP running mate.
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