So, when all the votes were counted, the Los Angeles mayoral race was down to incumbent Karen Bass and city councilwoman Nithia Raman. Spencer Pratt, we are told, entered the race too late and was unlikely to overcome the heavy Democratic Party registration advantage.Yet the question remains — as it has for at least the past four years — what does the future portend for the City of Angels?
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For an answer, we need to go back to 2022, when then-U.S. Rep. Bass ran against billionaire real estate developer Rick Caruso — and barely won.
After making the runoff against Bass in 2022, Caruso pointed out that “only a couple months ago, only 6% of the people knew who I was” and that it was not “some political genius” but because “we’ve been proposing practical solutions for very complex problems” that people voted for him.
Sound familiar?
