Evan Halper writes about a broad range of policy issues out of Washington D.C., with particular emphasis on how Washington regulates, agitates and very often miscalculates in its dealings with California. Before heading east, he was the Los Angeles Times bureau chief in Sacramento, where he spent a decade untangling California’s epic budget mess and political dysfunction.
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Joe Biden visited the restive Wisconsin town on Thursday, two days after President Trump did, as their competing messages — racial justice versus ‘law and order’ — roil the presidential campaign.
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California’s junior U.S. senator, the daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants, accepts the vice presidential nomination, making history on Day 3 of the Democratic National Convention.
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Democrats nominated Joe Biden for president with a virtual roll call, as his wife and former presidents praised his leadership, experience and empathy.
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Joe Biden is reopening the playbook for a “change-back” campaign that seemed uniquely suited for Jerry Brown when California was in crisis.
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List of serious candidates was longer than many believed, insiders say.
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President Trump has long used California as a political punching bag. He’s already amping up those attacks now that Kamala Harris is Joe Biden’s running mate.
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Joe Biden held his first event with his Democratic running mate, Kamala Harris, in Wilmington, Delaware, on Wednesday.