Republicans Hammer Karen Bass, Possible Biden Running Mate, Over Cuba
- Californian has visited Cuba as teenager and as lawmaker
- An appeal to Cuban-American voters in crucial swing state
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Representative Karen Bass is on Joe Biden’s short-list as a possible running mate, and two Trump surrogates for Florida hammered her on Saturday over her past support for Cuba, saying it would offend the state’s Hispanic voters.
A report on Friday said Bass had traveled to communist Cuba as part of a group as a high school student in the 1970s. Decades later, as a lawmaker representing California, she was part of former Secretary of State John Kerry’s 2015 trip to raise the American flag in Havana, and President Barack Obama’s visit to the island in 2016.