Massive swing rocks LA mayors race as concerning poll released

Nithya Raman is dominating Karen Bass in the Los Angeles’ mayor’s race, according to a bombshell new poll.The challenger has surged to an 11-point lead with less than six weeks until the vote, according to the UC Berkeley/LA Times survey.Far-left Raman is back by 39% of likely voters compared with just 28% for Bass, the poll released Wednesday morning shows.The biggest news, opinion and culture shaping California right now.

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Never miss a story But a whopping 33% remain undecided, leaving plenty of room for the race to move before the Nov.3 election.Bass’ campaign quickly blasted the survey as an “outlier,” saying other recent polls have shown a much tighter contest.“One outlier poll which got the June primary wrong isn’t reflective of the energy we see when talking to voters every day and what every other poll indicates — this is going to be a close race,” campaign spokesman Alex Stack told the California Post.The survey of 2,150 likely Los Angeles voters was conducted online from Sept.

15 through Sept.20 and carries a margin of error of about 3 percentage points, according to the Times.The numbers mark a reversal from the June primary, when Bass finished first with 34% of the vote and Raman came in second with 29%.Bass’ campaign pointed to several recent surveys showing much narrower margins.An August poll commissioned by Neighborhoods for a Better L.A., an independent group supporting Bass, had the mayor ahead 41% to 35%.

A September survey commissioned by Estamos con Nithya, an outside group supporting Raman, initially had Bass at 38% and Raman at 37%, within its 3.7-point margin of error.Raman’s own internal poll in early September put her ahead 44% to 39%, with 17% undecided.But the latest poll contains another troubling number for Bass: 63% of likely voters view the mayor unfavorably, ...