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In addition to competitive mayoral and City Council races, L.A. voters also will have their say on 10 local ballot measures that will impact the county and city.
Two Los Angeles City Council seats are on the ballot Nov. 3: one representing the San Fernando Valley and the other South Los Angeles.
The Raman campaign’s complaint says the ads spread on social media steer viewers to an interactive AI phone line with a voice falsely identified as that of Nithya Raman.
L.A. mayoral candidates Bass and Raman skirmish over their support for small businesses. The San Fernando Valley is a battleground
Former Los Angeles mayoral candidate Rick Caruso declined to endorse either incumbent Mayor Karen Bass or challenger Nithya Raman in the Nov. 3 runoff election.
A poll suggests most L.A. County voters are confident with the county’s handling of elections, but many worry that outside influence, including online misinformation and political interference, could taint the midterms.
‘I’m not gonna sit in a corner and cry for him when I have so much to do,’ Blanca Ortiz says. ‘I need to figure out how to pay the mortgage, how to pay the bills, how to keep the shop running.’
Raman leads Bass among Latinos, 45% to 21%, with 34% undecided, the latest Berkeley IGS/L.A. Times poll shows. But in the primary, Bass carried 35 Latino majority neighborhoods compared with seven for Raman.
Thousands of Salvadoran immigrants nationwide faced uncertainty after the federal government failed to decide by a Wednesday deadline whether to extend or terminate their longtime temporary protections against deportation.
The Department of Homeland Security has not yet announced whether it will end or extend Temporary Protected Status for some 170,000 Salvadorans, including 36,000 in California.
