AS BASS WAS FLOATED AS A TOP CONTENDER TO JOIN FORMER PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN AS HIS RUNNING MATE DURING THE 2020 ELECTION, MULTIPLE NEWS REPORTS PARSED BASS' PAST COMMENTS ON COMMUNIST LEADERS, INCLUDING LAMENTING COMMUNIST CUBAN DICTATOR FIDEL CASTRO'S DEATH IN 2016 IN A STATEMENT. CELEBRATED COMMUNIST LEADERS; "I would like to honor the life and memory of my friend and mentor, Oneil Marion Cannon, who passed away on January 20, days before his 100th birthday," Bass wrote of Oneil Cannon. The comments did not mention that Cannon was a top leader of the Communist Party USA
