{"id":1585131,"date":"2022-08-02T14:19:12","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T18:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1585131"},"modified":"2022-08-02T14:19:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T18:19:14","slug":"biden-harris-endorse-karen-bass-in-la-mayoral-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-harris-endorse-karen-bass-in-la-mayoral-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden, Harris Endorse Karen Bass in LA Mayoral Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-harris-endorse-karen-bass-in-la-mayoral-race%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1585131&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>LOS ANGELES\u2014President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a> and Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-kamala-harris\">Kamala Harris<\/a> jointly endorsed Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-karen-bass\">Karen Bass<\/a> in her run for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-los-angeles\">Los Angeles<\/a> mayor Aug. 2.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are endorsing Karen Bass for Los Angeles mayor because we are eager to continue to partner with her on innovative strategies to reduce homelessness and increase public safety and prosperity,\u201d Biden and Harris said in a joint statement released by the Bass campaign. \u201cKaren Bass has our friendship, and she has earned our respect through her leadership in Congress on crime prevention strategies, effective and fair policing, and the welfare of children and families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bass (D-Calif.) finished first in the June primary race for mayor and will square off in November against billionaire businessman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-rick-caruso\">Rick Caruso<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Officials with the Caruso campaign could not be immediately reached for comment on the Bass endorsement announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Bass said in a statement that Biden and Harris have \u201cdelivered for America\u2019s cities at an unprecedented level\u2014on infrastructure, the environment, economic recovery and so much more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am excited to continue partnering with them when I get our city moving on homelessness, public safety, affordability, and in ensuring every Los Angeles resident is treated equally and has an equal shot at success,\u201d she said. \u201cIt is a true honor to have their endorsement; President Biden and Vice President Harris are leaders that I respect and admire so much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bass last week picked up an endorsement from former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>Bass has been endorsed by various congressional colleagues, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and local Reps. Linda Sanchez, Jimmy Gomez, Lou Correa, Judy Chu, Ted Lieu, Mike Levin, Adam Schiff, Brad Sherman, Mark Takano, Raul Ruiz, and Lucille Roybal-Allard. She also received labor support from local unions, along with the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor.<\/p>\n<p>Caruso<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES\u2014President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris jointly endorsed Rep. Karen Bass in her run for Los Angeles mayor Aug. 2. \u201cWe are endorsing Karen Bass for Los Angeles mayor because we are eager to continue to partner with her on innovative strategies to reduce homelessness and increase public safety and prosperity,\u201d Biden [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1585131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1585131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1585131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1585131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1585131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}