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Both Caruso, Bass heading for November runoff in L.A. mayor race
Rick Caruso (left) and Karen Bass (right). | Photos courtesy of USC Price/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)
Margaret Shuttleworth City News Service
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s expected, the push toward a November runoff in the Los Angeles mayoral race began Wednesday, with billionaire real estate developer Rick
Caruso and Rep. Karen Bass finishing first and second, respectively, in Tuesday's primary election. The pair easily topped a wide field of candidates, with City Councilman Kevin de León finishing a distant third, followed by commu-
Villanueva in trouble? Opponent Robert Luna secures 25% in primary, heading to November runoff By City News Service
L
os Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva's bid for a second term will move to a November
runoff election against former Long Beach police Chief Robert Luna, with the pair topping a ninecandidate field in Tuesday's election.
nity activist Gina Viola. Caruso and Bass, D-Los Angeles, were the clear front-runners throughout the campaign, with a November head-to-head runoff a virtual certainty. Caruso — with a hefty self-funded campaign —
had held out some hope of winning the race outright on Tuesday by collecting more than 50% of the vote. But Bass maintained a strong support base and even moved ahead of Caruso in a poll released just ahead of election day.
Caruso led the way as election results came in Tuesday night and maintained his lead as votes were tallied, but he fell short of the 50% mark. Semi-final results released early Wednesday showed Caruso with 133,059 votes,
or 42.14%, to Bass' 116,688 votes, or 36.95%. De León had 23,665 votes, or 7.49%. It was not immediately clear how many provisional, questioned and late ballots remain to be tallied. Mail-in
As of 2 a.m. Wednesday, Villanueva had 258,808 votes, or 34.38%, to Luna's 184,640 votes, or 24.53%. Over the past century, only one incumbent sheriff in the county has lost a re-election bid. That was four years ago, when Villanueva achieved a stunning upset of Sheriff Jim McDonnell, riding to an election
victory with strong backing from reform-minded community groups and Democrats. But over the past four years, Villanueva's support among those groups has waned as he repeatedly clashed with the Democrat-dominated Board of Supervisors over funding and policy matters, fought
back against claims of "deputy gangs" within the agency, defied subpoenas to appear before the Civilian Oversight Commission and refused to enforce the county's COVID-19 vaccination mandate among his deputies and department employees. He has openly criticized "progressive" policies and
politicians, most notably District Attorney George Gascón, and assailed movements to "defund" law enforcement agencies. Those stances, however, have helped solidify his support among many of those working for him, exemplified by his endorse-
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