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

August 7, 2020 - Today Ms. Bass, a 66-year-old congresswoman and head of the Congressional Black Caucus, is among the leading candidates being considered for vice president by Joseph R. Biden Jr. But in some ways she is still an outsider, making her way in an ...

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.

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

August 6, 2020 - Some see her low-key, disciplined approach as an asset for the VP slot: She’s less likely to draw negative attention on the campaign trail, and she has indicated that she’s not inclined to use the vice presidency as a launching pad for presidential ambitions of her own. But her low profile can look like a liability, too. It’s stranded Bass so far off the public’s political radar screen that her inclusion on Biden’s list of potential running mates left people across the country scratching their heads.

July 11, 2020 - 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.

August 4, 2020 - California Rep. Karen Bass’ praise of Fidel Castro has damaged her chances of being chosen to be Joe Biden’s nominee for vice president.

August 6, 2020 - Antonio Villaraigosa, the former Los Angeles mayor who also served as Assembly speaker and has known Bass since the early 1970s, said her consideration for vice president is a validation of her unique profile in California politics.

August 1, 2020 - In fact, when Bass appeared on The Issue Is on June 12, she claimed that she was not being vetted, unless the process was taking place in secret, but that if asked, she would “of course” accept an offer to join the Biden ticket.

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.

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August 3, 2020 - California Rep. Karen Bass has been a key leader on issues of racial justice. Now some Democrats are boosting her to get the nod for Joe Biden's ticket.

August 3, 2020 - Bass, who represents the Los Angeles area, is said to be on the Democratic nominee's short list for running mates, along with California Sen. Kamala Harris and former President Obama's national security adviser Susan Rice.

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

January 13, 2025 - GAVIN NEWSOM ORDERS INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION AFTER HYDRANTS RUN DRY: ‘WE NEED ANSWERS’ · Years before the Los Angeles wildfire crisis, President Biden once considered L.A. Mayor Karen Bass to be his vice presidential running mate, while ...

4 days ago - Karen Ruth Bass (/ˈbæs/; born October 3, 1953) is an American politician who has served as the 43rd mayor of Los Angeles since 2022. A member of the Democratic Party, Bass previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2011 to 2022 and in the California State Assembly from 2004 ...

July 15, 2020 - She’s close with important voices in Biden’s ear: Representative Jim Clyburn of South Carolina, whose endorsement helped earn Biden the nomination; Representative Cedric Richmond of Louisiana, a co-chair of Biden’s campaign who preceded Bass as chair of the CBC; and Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware, who’s one of the four members of Biden’s VP-vetting committee.

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.

August 6, 2020 - WASHINGTON — Los Angeles Rep. Karen Bass is an unlikely contender for vice president.

August 2, 2020 - In a separate interview with Fox News Sunday, Bass said that she's "ready" and "prepared" to serve as Biden's vice president. Newsweek reached out to Biden's campaign for comment on Bass and her remarks, but it did not respond by the time of ...