Karen Bass acknowledges her supporters aft speaking astatine an predetermination nighttime enactment successful Los Angeles, connected Nov. 8, 2022. | Jae C. Hong/AP Photo
Rep. Karen Bass is present much than 4 points up of billionaire Rick Caruso successful the contention for Los Angeles mayor, her widest pb yet arsenic ballots proceed to beryllium counted successful a contention that was city’s astir costly ever.
Bass is present astir 30,000 votes up of Caruso, according to the latest ballot driblet from LA County released Monday evening, which extended the congressmember’s erstwhile pb by much than 20,000 votes.
Election officials accidental the updated figures correspond an further 191,312 ballots counted countywide, for a cumulative full of 1,799,951 ballots counted. An estimated 655,300 ballots remain to beryllium counted. The contention has yet to beryllium called, and the adjacent update from elections officials is expected to travel Tuesday.
California mails each elector a ballot and allows those postmarked by predetermination time a week to get astatine predetermination offices. As a result, the last number tin instrumentality a week oregon longer.
The LA mayor’s contention has been the astir costly contention the metropolis has ever seen, and among the astir contentious. Bass, who got her commencement organizing successful South LA earlier moving onto the authorities Legislature and aboriginal Congress, has the backing of the enactment establishment, including the White House and erstwhile President Barack Obama. Caruso, known for his luxury retail centers similar the Grove, is simply a erstwhile Republican who lone registered arsenic a Democrat soon earlier entering the race.
Caruso spent his mode into contention this year, dropping $100 cardinal of his idiosyncratic luck to bombard LA airwaves with promises to “clean up” the city’s progressively terrible homelessness occupation and ace down connected transgression and corruption successful metropolis government. He initially showed beardown returns connected predetermination night, but that pb rapidly dwindled successful the pursuing days arsenic much mail-in ballots were counted.
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