{"id":1519181,"date":"2022-06-16T14:34:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T18:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1519181"},"modified":"2022-06-16T14:34:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T18:34:29","slug":"progressive-democrat-takes-lead-over-former-republican-in-l-a-mayoral-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/progressive-democrat-takes-lead-over-former-republican-in-l-a-mayoral-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Progressive Democrat Takes Lead Over Former Republican In L.A. Mayoral Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fprogressive-democrat-takes-lead-over-former-republican-in-l-a-mayoral-primary%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1519181&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"p1\">Representative Karen Bass (D-CA) has taken a slight lead over former Republican Rick Caruso in the Los Angeles mayoral primary election, gaining ground after a surge of mail-in ballots were counted earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The latest results revealed that Bass has 41% of the vote over Caruso, who has gotten 38% so far. However, there are still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2022-06-14\/bass-pulls-ahead-of-caruso-in-latest-vote-count-for-l-a-mayor\">more<\/a> than 350,000 votes that have not yet been tallied, and the final count might not be known for days or even weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The day after the June 7 election, Caruso, a former Republican running as a moderate Democrat, was slightly ahead of Bass, but last-minute mail-in votes boosted Bass and other progressives on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Since neither Bass nor Caruso has received more than 50% of the votes required to avoid a runoff, it is expected that the two will face off in November\u2019s general election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This past weekend, Bass appeared on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cThe Sunday Show With Jonathan Capehart\u201d and discussed the amount of money Caruso, a billionaire developer, has spent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cYou would have thought $40 million compared to $3 million, that I would have been wiped out,\u201d Bass said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">After the Tuesday announcement, Anna Bahr, spokeswoman for the Bass campaign, told The Los Angeles Times, \u201cAngelenos want a mission-driven, battle-tested leader with the proven experience of pulling people together to confront the crises we are facing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Caruso spokesperson Peter Ragone said the campaign is \u201cexcited to accomplish our goal of making the runoff and giving voters a chance to clean up L.A.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cVoters will have a clear choice when they go to the polls between a career politician who just last week went on record saying she can\u2019t fix the homelessness crisis and a leader who can clean up L.A. and deal with homelessness, crime and corruption,\u201d Ragone said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In 2020, Bass was <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/510399-karen-bass-im-not-a-socialist-im-not-a-communist\/\">considered<\/a> as a possible running mate for then-presidential candidate Joe Biden. At the time, Bass pushed back on allegations that she was a communist or socialist after Republicans pointed out how she had visited Cuba several times and once spoken well of Fidel Castro after he died \u2014 comments she later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/08\/02\/karen-bass-fidel-castro-390413\">took<\/a> back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI\u2019m not a socialist. I\u2019m not a communist. I\u2019ve belonged to one party my entire life and that\u2019s the Democratic Party, and I\u2019m a Christian,\u201d Bass\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/latino\/i-m-not-communist-potential-biden-running-mate-rep-bass-n1235667\">told NBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representative Karen Bass (D-CA) has taken a slight lead over former Republican Rick Caruso in the Los Angeles mayoral primary election, gaining ground after a surge of mail-in ballots were counted earlier this week. The latest results revealed that Bass has 41% of the vote over Caruso, who has gotten 38% so far. 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