2 days ago - Ho, Catherine (February 21, 2009). "After budget battle, Bass has news for her old school". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 4, 2020. ... humanities magnet from which she graduated in 1971. ... Rosen, Armin (July 27, 2020). "Biden VP Favorite Karen Bass' Journey From the Radical Fringe".

2 weeks ago - Julie Chávez Rodríguez, who managed campaigns for former President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, will lead Bass' reelection campaign against progressive challenger Nithya Raman.

August 4, 2020 - LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- California Congresswoman Karen Bass who represents the 37th District covering a large chunk of Los Angeles has skyrocketed to the top of Joe Biden's VP list.

December 11, 2025 - She was widely perceived as an effective leader, and was honored with the John F. Kennedy Profiles in Courage Award in 2010, along with Darrell Steinberg, Mike Villines, and Dave Cogdill -- the legislative leaders who presided over the fiscal crisis.There’s speculation that Bass may be appealing to Biden, in part, because she hasn’t publicly been maneuvering or campaigning for the VP slot, unlike some other contenders.Details of the vetting process are closely held, but we’re probably still several weeks away from Biden’s decision on a running mate ahead of the August convention in Milwaukee. Bass is part of a list that includes Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Florida Rep. Val Demings, and former Georgia state legislator Stacey Abrams. It’s tough to predict who makes the cut, but Bass’ inclusion in the mix is another surprise in an unpredictable year.Author Kevin Riggs is an Emmy-winning former political reporter for KCRA-TV. He is now the station’s political analyst and is senior vice presi

January 13, 2025 - Years before the Los Angeles wildfire crisis, President Biden once considered L.A. Mayor Karen Bass to be his vice presidential running mate, while former President Obama once predicted she would be an "outstanding" mayor of Los Angeles.

August 1, 2020 - “It’s still very, very surreal, ... insiders, Bass is now shortlisted alongside the likes of Senators Kamala Harris (D-CA), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) for the coveted running mate position - Biden has ...

January 21, 2021 - But in recent weeks, Californians who worked with Bass – including Huerta – have openly campaigned for her as vice-president, propelling her to the top of Biden’s shortlist.

August 5, 2024 - Still, Bass is much less known than Kamala Harris, who some believe is the favorite to end up on the Democratic ticket. And, says Joel Goldstein, author of a book about the vice presidency, says House members are rarely chosen as running mates.

2 weeks ago - He is being replaced by Julie Chávez Rodriguez, who was campaign manager for the Joe Biden and Kamala Harris presidential campaigns in 2024, a Bass spokesperson said. Chávez Rodriguez has spent the last few months running Unidos Con Karen ...

August 3, 2020 - Now she is among the contenders to be Joe Biden's pick for his vice presidential running mate. A former community organizer and head of the Congressional Black Caucus, Bass led the Democratic effort to write sweeping police reform legislation.

February 27, 2025 - Karen Bass, D-Calif., listens during a House Judiciary Committee markup of the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, on Capitol Hill in Washington. California Congresswoman Bass has emerged a leading contender to be Democrats’ vice presidential candidate.

July 10, 2020 - UNITED STATES - JUNE 10: Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, speaks with reporters as she arrives for the House Judiciary Committee hearing on policing practices and law enforcement accountability on Wednesday, June 10, 2020. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)Bill Clark / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Imag · Five-term Los Angeles Rep. Karen Bass is the other Californian on Joe Biden’s short list to be his vice president. She’s rising up the veepstakes charts so fast that even conservative columnist George Will — the Ronald Reagan-cheerleader-turned-never-Trumper — said she’d be a great pick. Like many of the other women on Biden’s short list, Bass, 66, is a ceiling-breaker. The daughter of a postal worker, in 2008 she became the first Black woman in history to lead the California Assembly or any similar legislative body in the country.

August 7, 2020 - Karen Bass was mostly unknown outside of California when her name popped up as a potential running mate to presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. Her emergence was greeted with a round of mostly glowing reviews.

↑ Politico, "Karen Bass rises as sleeper pick to be Biden's VP," July 24, 2020

July 24, 2020 - The California congresswoman has emerged as a surprise unity choice in the final stages of vetting.

WASHINGTON — Los Angeles Rep. Karen Bass is an unlikely contender for vice president.

August 19, 2020 - But once the media examined Bass’s personal background and long record as State Assemblywoman and then Congresswoman, her stock fell just as rapidly. Despite all of her impressive accomplishments on the most pressing domestic issues of the moment to the American public (COVID-19, race relations, health care, etc) -- equaling or surpassing Harris’s in terms of what Biden sought in his VP-- she possessed just one “liability” that the media fixated on: Her past travels to Cuba, most of them done in the 1970s and 80s before she even entered electoral politics, along with a few positive statements that she made about Fidel Castro while in elected office.

July 15, 2020 - Now, much to Bass’s—and pretty much everyone else’s—surprise, Biden’s team is taking her seriously as a potential vice-presidential running mate. One theory is that she’s being vetted to help Biden win favor with the Congressional Black Caucus, which she chairs. Another is that Biden is trying to use the process to elevate as many black women as he can. Yet another is that he’s looking to distract people from speculating about some of the more likely choices. But inside the Biden campaign is another consideration: Over the next month, he’s effectively going to decide whether there will be a competitive Democratic primary in 2024 (or maybe 2028, if he wins and tries to serve until he’s 86 years old). He’s the leader of the party now. Will he decide its future by anointing a successor, or pick someone, like Bass, who’s less likely to run for president? Biden has wanted to be president for almost 40 years.

August 5, 2020 - Biden had no public schedule on Tuesday, an indication that final evaluations had begun from his home in Wilmington, Del. But those seeking to influence the process from the outside still saw time to frame the choices before him, especially since at least two of the apparent finalists, Bass and Susan Rice, didn’t appear on most early lists.