Councilwoman Nithya Raman overtakes reality star Spencer Pratt in second place in the primaries, a contest in which the candidate who will face Karen Bass in the November general elections for mayor of Los Angeles will be defined.
After Spencer Pratt presented an advantage over Raman after the first results of the primary were announced, the night of Tuesday, June 2, The councilwoman began to close the distance with the victim of the Palisades fire.
According to the most recent vote count from the Los Angeles Electoral Registry, this Sunday night, Raman is now in second place, with 21.1%while Pratt has dropped to third place, with 26.7% of the votes counted.
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After this update, Raman consolidates a comeback that he carried out for five daysafter the initial disadvantage with Pratt. Karen Bass, acting mayor of Los Angeles, leads the primary with 34.7%, and whom the Associated Press has already qualified for the November general election.
Los Angeles election officials Votes sent by mail are accepted until this Tuesday, June 9 that are postmarked with at least the date of the elections to be counted.
According to specialists, the trend favors Raman to advance to the November 3 elections against Bass.
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“The odds have changed dramatically as Raman decides on“said former councilman and director of the Los Angeles Initiative at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Zev Yaroslavsky, in an interview with the “Los Angeles Times.”
“The trend is clear. He’s been closing the gap on Pratt for the last three or four days. There’s no reason to believe that’s going to change.. “The race is still close, but at this point he has a better chance of making it to the second round than Pratt,” he added.
Raman leads Pratt by 3,113 votesafter in the most recent count he obtained 19,096 votes, followed by Bass, with 15,691, and Pratt, with 8,489.
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“We are encouraged by the latest vote count and we remain grateful to the thousands of Angelenos who have promoted this campaign,” Nithya Raman said in a statement issued by her campaign team.
A Bass campaign spokesman, Alex Stack, said that if Raman maintains second place in the election, the mayor Bass would hope to win a race against an opponent who allows homeless encampments near schools.
Bass’ representative added that Raman fights hiring more officers for LAPD) and who is absent when it comes to saving jobs in Hollywood and resisting when ICE agents invade Los Angeles.
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It is estimated that there are missing about 368,000 electoral ballots still to be counted throughout Los Angeles County. The city of Los Angeles represents 40% of the county’s population.
After Raman cut Pratt’s lead to 3% on Friday night, political observers said The trend indicated that the councilor could overtake her opponent over the course of the weekend.
The vice president of the election data company Political Recordsdata Inc., Paul Mitchell, said that there was a similarity to the 2022 Los Angeles mayoral electionwhen Bass was trailing Rick Caruso on the night of that election, but little by little he overtook him until he won.
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“It is logically consistent with what we saw in 2022. Each update has benefited Raman to a greater or lesser extent“Mitchell added.
The observers mentioned that Pratt, a registered Republican, likely appealed to conservative votersmany of whom were expected to cast their vote early.
Instead, Raman was able to attract the support of young and progressive voterswho tend to keep their ballots and deliver them, even until the day of the vote.
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