LA mayor's race: Though the race remains too close to call, Karen Bass took the slightest of leads in the latest numbers released Friday afternoon in the Los Angeles mayoral race.
Bass had been slightly behind as of Thursday afternoon's figures. But on Friday, she was ahead of developer Rick Caruso by nearly 4,400 votes, putting the race, for now, at 50.38% in her favor, to Caruso's 49.62%.
The county registrar said it added 79,018 ballots to its latest total, with just over 1.53 million now counted.Getting definitive results to call the race could take some time - days or even weeks - as the registrar so far has tallied just 62% of the vote."In the coming days, the voice of the people of Los Angeles will be heard and we feel confident that we will win," Sarah Leonard Sheahan, Bass' communications director, said in a statement on the latest vote count.
In a tight mayor's race, the favorite is Bass, a former state Assembly leader who has the advantage of being a lifelong Democrat in a city where Republicans are almost invisible.She's backed by President Joe Biden and the Democratic establishment and has been promising to use her skills as a coalition builder to heal a wounded city.
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