{"id":303554,"date":"2026-05-07T01:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T01:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/303554\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T01:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T01:39:11","slug":"la-mayor-race-2026-bass-faces-challengers-over-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/303554\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Mayor Race 2026: Bass Faces Challengers over Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s a big election<\/a> this year, and we are not just talking about the congressional midterm races. There\u2019s a lot of consequential local races<\/a>, too, including one for LA\u2019s next mayor. As incumbent mayor Karen Bass Bass campaigns<\/a> to stay in office, there\u2019s a big question about how much LA\u2019s fire recovery will dominate the political narrative \u2014 and your vote. There\u2019s more than a dozen candidates currently on the ballot. Can Bass hold on to her seat? Or could councilmember Nithya Raman<\/a> or reality star Spencer Pratt take it?<\/p>\n

GUEST: Noah Goldberg<\/a>, City Hall Reporter, Los Angeles Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a big election this year, and we are not just talking about the congressional midterm races. There\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[12858,128049,128044,128046,84956,4080,2303,48,52,51,47,50,49,63,4415,128045,128048,128047,4495,72],"class_list":["post-303554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-bass","tag-big-election","tag-challengers","tag-city-hall-reporter","tag-councilmember-nithya-raman","tag-guest","tag-l-a","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-mayor","tag-noah-goldberg","tag-political-firefight","tag-reality-star-spencer-pratt","tag-recovery","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}