{"id":515364,"date":"2026-11-01T20:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T20:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/515364\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T20:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T20:54:10","slug":"nithya-raman-attends-usc-tailgates-annenberg-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/515364\/","title":{"rendered":"Nithya Raman attends USC tailgates \u2013 Annenberg Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mayoral candidate and City Councilmember Nithya Raman campaigned at USC tailgates Saturday, greeting fans, playing games and dancing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">When asked if she thought campaigning at USC so close to Tuesday\u2019s election could alienate UCLA fans, she told Annenberg Media she is bringing both colleges together. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cActually my campaign, my candidacy is one of the few things that has brought UCLA and USC together,\u201d Raman said, sporting a USC jersey. \u201cBoth of their student Democratic clubs have endorsed me and so I hope to make the case that I am the uniting force here in Los Angeles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Trojan Democrats and Bruin Democrats both endorsed Raman\u2019s campaign, she announced in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DexhGB1vdqx\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;xtok=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==&amp;srtk=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DexhGB1vdqx\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;xtok=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==&amp;srtk=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\">Instagram post<\/a> Oct. 21. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Joining Raman on campus was City Controller Kenneth Mejia dressed in a Pikachu costume. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Mayoral candidate Nithya Raman and City Controller Kenneth Mejia (dressed in a Pikachu costume) pose for a picture with supporters in McCarthy Quad Saturday.\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/N6QXYMJXKZDMJME5XQQRQFX7ZU.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"445\"\/>Mayoral candidate Nithya Raman and City Controller Kenneth Mejia (dressed in a Pikachu costume) pose for a picture with supporters in McCarthy Quad Saturday. (Photo by Benjamin Gamson) <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayoral candidate and City Councilmember Nithya Raman campaigned at USC tailgates Saturday, greeting fans, playing games and dancing.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[12858,198041,140289,198042,105915,140967,34964,29229,4132,7119,2303,48,52,51,47,5436,50,4049,49,13825,139886,80054,107878,32081,188642,198040,1092,75593,3581,3533],"class_list":["post-515364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-bass","tag-bruin-democrats","tag-city-controller","tag-city-controller-kenneth-mejia","tag-city-councilmember","tag-city-councilmember-nithya-raman","tag-democratic-socialists-of-america","tag-dsa","tag-karen-bass","tag-kenneth-mejia","tag-l-a","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-city-council","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-mayor-karen-bass","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-mayor-karen-bass","tag-mejia","tag-nithya-raman","tag-ohio-state-university","tag-raman","tag-tailgates","tag-trojan-democrats","tag-ucla","tag-university-of-california-los-angeles","tag-university-of-southern-california","tag-usc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515364","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=515364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}