The pressure from Democrats for Biden to withdraw from the presidential race paid off, to the point that even without recovering from Covid-19, which forced him to isolate himself in his beach house, the president had no choice but to announce that he will not seek re-election.
Once the Democrats’ goal of removing Biden from the presidential race was achieved, or else the indomitable Trump would beat them to a pulp, the Democrats let go of the body, and then, perhaps with a bit of guilt and remorse, they poured out excessive praise for the elderly 81-year-old president. All that’s left to do is erect a monument to him.
Biden likely negotiated to drop out of the Democratic nomination on the condition that Vice President Kamala Harris be the Democratic nominee because almost at the same time he was endorsing her, voices were emerging in support of Kamala as the replacement.
However, while most elected officials such as Mayor Karen Bass herself, Governor Newsom, Congressman Adam Schiff and even Councilman Kevin de León himself, just to name a few, are calling for the Democratic nomination to come out of an open convention in which the delegates, in complete freedom, choose who should be the candidate.
As they say, many Democrats do not want “finger-pointing,” that is, the imposition of candidates, and if Kamala is to be the candidate, they expect her to be elected in a democratic process. Let us just hope that it is not a sham process.
In the best case scenario, if Kamala is the nominee and beats Trump, it will be the first time in a long time that a president comes from California, but above all, she would make history as the first female president, and, as an additional fact, she would be the first African-American and Asian. Remember that her father was an immigrant from Jamaica, and her mother from India.
It lags behind in donations
As Congressman Adam Schiff urged Biden to drop out of the presidential race, he revealed that his Senate opponent, Republican Steve Garvey, has surpassed him in donations.
Over the past two months, the Trump-supporting former baseball player has raised more than $1.2 million, $13,626 per day, a total of $5.4 million versus $4.2 for Schiff, who is trailing with $1.2 million. So the Burbank congressman made an urgent call to his followers to take out their wallets and support him with a few dollars to go to the Senate.
Schiff has the advantage of being ahead in the polls and the state being predominantly Democratic, but he can’t be the devil.
Double nationality
Political allies in the Los Angeles City Council, Councilmen Eunisses Hernandez and Hugo Soto Martinez, showed up at the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles over the weekend to obtain dual citizenship.
It was a good decision by both politicians to obtain Mexican nationality, because they should have been the ones to invite Carlos González Gutiérrez, the new Mexican consul, to the Council, and not Councilman Kevin de León, who is half Guatemalan and half Chinese, although raised in the Mexican neighborhood of Logan in San Diego.
It’s clear that Kevin has taken over their orders, but let’s hope that now councillors Eunisses Hernández and Hugo Soto-Martínez get their act together and hold on to their roots.
A few days earlier, Mayor Karen Bass visited the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles, and accompanied by Consul González Gutiérrez, she toured its facilities to learn about the services and programs that the Consulate offers to the Mexican community.
They are going to Paris
This week, Mayor Bass is packing her bags for Paris to participate in the Summer Olympics alongside First Lady Jill Biden. Bass will bring the Olympic torch to Los Angeles because, remember, the city will host the Summer Olympics in 2028.
The councillors were not left behind, and several of them already have their plane tickets ready to go to the Olympic Games. Note Paul Krekorian, who will be concentrated in Paris from July 24 to August 12; Councillor Tracy Park will travel for the closing of the games from August 8 to 12; but councillors Monica Rodriguez and Imelda Padilla will also be present at the Olympics.
As we can see, our long-suffering councillors are heading to the City of Light for an Olympic break.