Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Rep. Karen Bass is undergoing vetting to be former Vice President Joe Biden’s running mate, according to two people familiar with the process.Bass, 66, who has represented Los Angeles in the House for five terms, joins a slate of prominent women of color who are in the mix to stand with Biden on the Democratic ticket. She would be the second Californian in the mix, joining Sen. Kamala Harris, who is .Biden has said he expects to decide on a running mate around the beginning of August. He has committed to picking a woman and is being...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Rep. Karen Bass is undergoing vetting to be former Vice President Joe Biden’s running mate, according to two people familiar with the process.Bass, 66, who has represented Los Angeles in the House for five terms, joins a slate of prominent women of color who are in the mix to stand with Biden on the Democratic ticket. She would be the second Californian in the mix, joining Sen. Kamala Harris, who is .Biden has said he expects to decide on a running mate around the beginning of August. He has committed to picking a woman and is being...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement In a peace offering to progressives a day after Sen. Bernie Sanders , Joe Biden announced support Thursday for an expansion of Medicare and education policies that move closer to his former rival’s agenda.Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, proposed expanding government health insurance coverage by lowering the eligibility age for Medicare from 65 to 60. The former vice president also called for forgiving college debt for low- and middle-income borrowers at public colleges and universities as well as at...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement In a peace offering to progressives a day after Sen. Bernie Sanders , Joe Biden announced support Thursday for an expansion of Medicare and education policies that move closer to his former rival’s agenda.Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, proposed expanding government health insurance coverage by lowering the eligibility age for Medicare from 65 to 60. The former vice president also called for forgiving college debt for low- and middle-income borrowers at public colleges and universities as well as at...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Joe Biden proudly boasts of how he persuaded Republicans in 2009 to cross the political divide and vote for President Obama’s economic recovery plan.He doesn’t often mention he only got three or that, in the years since, one has died, one has quit Congress and the third, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, is in danger of losing her seat this fall.Even for a consummate dealmaker like Biden, the kind of pragmatic Republicans he’s dealt with in the past are increasingly hard to find.Biden has put his ability to forge compromises at the center...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Joe Biden proudly boasts of how he persuaded Republicans in 2009 to cross the political divide and vote for President Obama’s economic recovery plan.He doesn’t often mention he only got three or that, in the years since, one has died, one has quit Congress and the third, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, is in danger of losing her seat this fall.Even for a consummate dealmaker like Biden, the kind of pragmatic Republicans he’s dealt with in the past are increasingly hard to find.Biden has put his ability to forge compromises at the center...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement In the months-long struggle through 2009 to pass the Affordable Care Act, some Senate Democrats were so determined to give President Obama’s chief domestic initiative a bipartisan cast that they spent much time courting a few Republicans, especially senior Sen. of Iowa.Yet endless rounds of negotiations produced nothing, and Democrats began to feel as if they were being played. All hope was dashed when Grassley, at an Iowa town hall, promoted a tea party falsehood that the bill would establish “death panels” to give the government a...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement In the months-long struggle through 2009 to pass the Affordable Care Act, some Senate Democrats were so determined to give President Obama’s chief domestic initiative a bipartisan cast that they spent much time courting a few Republicans, especially senior Sen. of Iowa.Yet endless rounds of negotiations produced nothing, and Democrats began to feel as if they were being played. All hope was dashed when Grassley, at an Iowa town hall, promoted a tea party falsehood that the bill would establish “death panels” to give the government a...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement A slow-simmering conflict among Republicans has burst into open hostilities at a perilous time for the party, as it seeks unity heading into Tuesday’s crucial Senate and prepares to confront a new Democratic president.As President Trump has refused to admit defeat in the November presidential election, his resistance to moving offstage has driven a wedge between his staunchest loyalists and many Republican party leaders.The tensions are growing in the aftermath of legislative battles that pitted much of the GOP against Trump on key...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement A slow-simmering conflict among Republicans has burst into open hostilities at a perilous time for the party, as it seeks unity heading into Tuesday’s crucial Senate and prepares to confront a new Democratic president.As President Trump has refused to admit defeat in the November presidential election, his resistance to moving offstage has driven a wedge between his staunchest loyalists and many Republican party leaders.The tensions are growing in the aftermath of legislative battles that pitted much of the GOP against Trump on key...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Soon after a young Joe Biden stunned Delaware by toppling one of its political giants with a scrappy, outsider Senate campaign, he was already planning a quick exit from Washington.Biden was too grief-stricken for the job. His wife and infant daughter were killed in a car crash just weeks after he won the election. His boys were still in a hospital. He wanted to quit before being sworn in.For the record:Yet Biden would experience a phenomenon inside the Senate that kept him coming back: Nearly five decades later, it would serve as...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Soon after a young Joe Biden stunned Delaware by toppling one of its political giants with a scrappy, outsider Senate campaign, he was already planning a quick exit from Washington.Biden was too grief-stricken for the job. His wife and infant daughter were killed in a car crash just weeks after he won the election. His boys were still in a hospital. He wanted to quit before being sworn in.For the record:Yet Biden would experience a phenomenon inside the Senate that kept him coming back: Nearly five decades later, it would serve as...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The American electorate, often apathetic and cynical about politics, is experiencing a great awakening, with the 2020 election inspiring extraordinary levels of engagement in both parties.People are enduring hours-long lines to cast ballots, , and turnout may be the biggest in more than a century. Millions who did not vote four years ago — or ever — are showing up.Campaigns can’t keep up with the demand for yard signs. Progressive groups have proliferated and been deluged with volunteers. Small-dollar . The Trump campaign claims more...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The American electorate, often apathetic and cynical about politics, is experiencing a great awakening, with the 2020 election inspiring extraordinary levels of engagement in both parties.People are enduring hours-long lines to cast ballots, , and turnout may be the biggest in more than a century. Millions who did not vote four years ago — or ever — are showing up.Campaigns can’t keep up with the demand for yard signs. Progressive groups have proliferated and been deluged with volunteers. Small-dollar . The Trump campaign claims more...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Joe Biden called Tuesday for an end to the divisions and partisanship that now define U.S. politics, traveling to the historic battlefield at Gettysburg, Pa., for a speech that did not mention President Trump and that likely sets the tone for the final four weeks of his presidential campaign.Biden repeatedly urged Americans to set politics aside in the spirit of President Lincoln’s call for unity in his iconic Gettysburg address. It’s an implausible request in what is probably the most heated presidential campaign of the modern era,...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Joe Biden called Tuesday for an end to the divisions and partisanship that now define U.S. politics, traveling to the historic battlefield at Gettysburg, Pa., for a speech that did not mention President Trump and that likely sets the tone for the final four weeks of his presidential campaign.Biden repeatedly urged Americans to set politics aside in the spirit of President Lincoln’s call for unity in his iconic Gettysburg address. It’s an implausible request in what is probably the most heated presidential campaign of the modern era,...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The worst strategic mistake Hillary Clinton made in her 2016 campaign for president, many analysts believe, was overconfidence about three states Democrats had won in every presidential election since 1992 — Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.No one is going to accuse Joe Biden of taking those states for granted.The Democrats’ presidential nominee is showering money, staff and time over those states — the “blue wall” that crumbled when Donald Trump’s victories by tiny margins in all three propelled him to the White House.By this...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The worst strategic mistake Hillary Clinton made in her 2016 campaign for president, many analysts believe, was overconfidence about three states Democrats had won in every presidential election since 1992 — Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.No one is going to accuse Joe Biden of taking those states for granted.The Democrats’ presidential nominee is showering money, staff and time over those states — the “blue wall” that crumbled when Donald Trump’s victories by tiny margins in all three propelled him to the White House.By this...WW…

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