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What’s KHANNA’s next move? — Fears of SPRING BREAK Covid surge — SOON-SHIONG: Anti-Asian racism ‘pervasive’ — Giant data leak at FACEBOOK Presented by CVS Health But seven years later, that declaration hasn’t hurt him. Khanna, a Democrat from the South Bay, has become one of Congress’ most successful rainmakers. New figures released to POLITICO show he’s raised more than $1.5 million in the first quarter of 2021, an off-year, and is sitting on $3.5 million cash on hand. Those numbers mark the largest fundraising quarter of his elective career, and put him up there with oth...

First trips: to states with Senate races Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff took their first official trips this week, and they did so as part of the administration’s “Help is Here” campaign, a victory lap for the $1.9-trillion COVID-19 relief package that Biden signed into law last week. (Harris and Emhoff spent a few personal days in Brentwood last month but did not hold public events. I wrote about Emhoff’s precedent-setting role in a story this week.) Their destinations were telling: Las Vegas on Monday, the Denver area on Tuesday and Atlanta, where Harris plans to join Bi...

Print This is the March 10, 2021, edition of the Essential Politics newsletter. Like what you’re reading? Sign up to get it in your inbox three times a week. To start today’s newsletter, let’s get personal. At the end of February 2020, I visited The Times’ offices in El Segundo for the first time. I had been at the company all of two months, but in the Washington bureau. This was a chance to finally meet some of my colleagues in person. I went out to lunch with my team and met a friend for dinner. I spent a free afternoon at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. And I took a full flig...

The death penalty runs like a sinuous thread through California politics. The issue bedeviled two governors named Brown, Pat and his son, Jerry, whose Catholic faith weighed heavily on their stewardship of the state’s execution chamber. In 1986, a public outcry resulted in the recall of three Supreme Court justices who repeatedly barred the door and kept the chamber sealed shut. For decades candidates vied to out-tough one another on the issue, even if it required the skills of an acrobat, professing moral opposition to capital punishment while vowing to vigorously enforce the law and ensur...

Print This is the Feb. 10, 2021, edition of the Essential Politics newsletter. Like what you’re reading? Sign up to get it in your inbox three times a week. Senators gathered yesterday in Washington to begin President Trump’s second impeachment trial. For the record: 5:27 PM, Feb. 10, 2021A previous version of this newsletter said the network had filled Lou Dobbs’ slot on Fox Business with former Trump economic advisor Larry Kudlow. The new program with Kudlow is not taking Dobbs’ time slot. On one side are House impeachment managers, who are pressing the Senate to hold Trump account...