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Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman surged past reality television personality Spencer Pratt in the city’s mayoral primary election Sunday, capping off a five-day turnaround after she fell behind to Pratt on election night.Raman now sits in second place with Pratt in third, according to the latest vote count from the Los Angeles Registrar-Recorder.
Raman had 27.1% of the votes counted so far, and Pratt had 26.7%.Both are vying to compete in a Nov.
3 runoff against Mayor Karen Bass, who garnered 34.7% of the vote as of Sunday, and whom the Associated Press already determined has qualified for the runoff.“We are encouraged by the latest vote count and remain grateful to the thousands of Angelenos who have powered this campaign,” Raman said in a statement issued by her campaign.
Bass campaign spokesman Alex Stack said that if Raman maintains that position, the mayor would “look forward to winning a contest against an opponent who allows encampments near schools and fights against hiring more cops, yet is MIA on saving Hollywood jobs and fighting back when ICE invades L.A.”Mail-in ballots with a June 2 election day postmark will continue to be accepted by county election officials through Tuesday.Pratt took an early lead over Raman on election night, but Raman’s numbers improved steadily as mail-in ballots were counted, leading political observers to begin predicting this weekend that she would eventually overtake Pratt.“I think it’s over,” Democratic political consultant Michael Trujillo said Saturday night, after the daily vote tally showed Raman just 1 percentage point behind Pratt.
“It appears Nithya will be in the runoff.Pratt doesn’t appear to be growing much more.” Analysts say Pratt, a registered Republican, likely appealed to conservative voters, many of whom were expected to have cast their votes early.
Raman, by comparison, is a progress...