New Leader In Key CA Race After More Ballots Counted

Making matters even more worrisome, Democratic leaders in the state claim it could take weeks to count all the ballots

But in the Los Angeles mayoral contest, incumbent Democrat Karen Bass didn’t crack the 51% needed to win outright, setting up a runoff in November.

More importantly, there’s a battle between former reality TV personality and Republican Spencer Pratt and City Council member and Democrat Nithya Raman.

At the time of this writing on Thursday morning, Pratt is ahead and Raman would have to make up a huge number of votes

Roughly 62% of the vote has been counted as of Wednesday night.

Per the New York Times, here’s where the voting totals stand as of this writing on Thursday morning: