On Israel: Managing Atlanta is a tough and maturing gig, but she has not developed substantial foreign policy chops. She also has been with Biden through highs and lows: At last year’s Democratic presidential debate in her city, at a time when Biden was down in the polls, she was his surrogate to reporters, forcefully making the presidential case for him. Brian Kemp’s anti-mask doctrines during the pandemic and for her sympathetic ear to Black activists. (Paras Griffin/Getty Images)īackground: The Atlanta mayor since 2017 has been given high marks for resisting Republican Gov. Florida, home to one of the nation’s biggest Jewish communities, is not a must-win for Biden, but if he knocks Trump out there - and it looks like he has a chance - the president is finished.Ītlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms speaks at the BronzeLens Film Festival Women Superstars Luncheon, Aug. Her VP case: Bass has said she regrets those statements on Castro and Scientology, but they could harm Biden, particularly in Florida, with its large Cuban-American community that includes many Jews. “That’s how I contacted the Jewish community,” she said. Her first encounter, she told the Jewish Journal, was when she turned up at school on Yom Kippur and was the only one there.
Jews who fled persecution in other communist regimes, such as the former Soviet Union and places in Latin America.įairfax connection: Bass has spoken about growing up with Jews in the historically Jewish Fairfax area of Los Angeles (it was badly damaged after some recent George Floyd protests) and making Jewish friends through civil rights activism. The support for a communist leader could concern some U.S. This June, as Netanyahu edged closer to making annexation a reality, Bass came out strongly against the move and lobbied Republicans to support a letter opposing it.Įyebrow raisers: Bass has lavishly praised the Castro regime in Cuba and the Church of Scientology. But she also agreed that Omar’s insinuation that pro-Israel groups control Congress with money was “inflammatory” and “viewed as anti-Semitism.” Last summer, Bass co-authored a House resolution to voice support for the two-state solution after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised in political campaigns that he would annex parts of the West Bank, which some believe would endanger the possibility of two states. Bass said that some of the attacks on Omar, a freshman Democrat, were Islamophobic. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota last year after Omar came under fire for comments that a large part of the pro-Israel community saw as anti-Semitic. On Israel: Bass, who chairs the Congressional Black Caucus, was protective of Rep. Her background in Black civil rights activism would stir excitement among African-American voters. Arnold Schwarzenegger during the 2008-10 financial crisis. She is known for her preternatural calm, evident when as speaker of the California Assembly she worked with GOP Gov.
House of Representatives has the rare reputation of being a solid progressive who works well with Republicans. (Photo by Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images)īackground: The Los Angeles representative to the U.S. Representative Karen Bass (D-CA) stands for a portrait in her office at the Rayburn House Office Building on Thursday, July 30, 2020.
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