Breaking news: Rep. Karen Bass (D) wins Los Angeles mayoral race, becoming first woman and second Black person elected to lead the nation’s second-largest city, overcoming more than $100 million in spending by the billionaire Rick Caruso’s campaign.
While some of his new party’s biggest names spurned him, Caruso received several splashy celebrity endorsements in a city of stars, including from Snoop Dogg, Kim Kardashian and Katy Perry.
made international headlines and shook the foundation of Los Angeles’s self-ascribed identity as a harmonious, multiethnic metropolis. Last month, a leaked recording emerged capturing four of the city’s most powerful Latino leaders disparaging colleagues and flinging racist remarks about a Black child, indigenous immigrants and Jewish residents.
In the last debate of the campaign, and the only one that followed the recording's release, Bass and Caruso agreed that council members had to go, but argued over who was better positioned to unite the city in the messy aftermath.
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