LA mayoral showdown narrows to a three-way cliffhanger
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The 2026 Los Angeles mayoral race has become a tight three-way contest among Karen Bass, Nithya Raman, and Spencer Pratt. Bass entered as the front-runner, Raman emerged as a left-flank challenger, and Pratt—an outsider with a national-media profile—gained momentum aided by viral, AI-inspired videos. A late UC Berkeley/LA Times poll showed a razor-thin split: Bass 26%, Raman 25%, Pratt 22%, signaling an unpredictable finish driven by shifting coalitions, local dynamics, and growing national attention.
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