{"id":681304,"date":"2026-06-03T05:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T05:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/681304\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T05:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T05:52:07","slug":"la-mayor-primary-live-results-karen-bass-faces-spencer-pratt-and-nithya-raman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/681304\/","title":{"rendered":"LA mayor primary live results: Karen Bass faces Spencer Pratt and Nithya Raman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"PQWO2AMXDVAKTD6PB4MZE4WL24\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) and Republican reality TV star Spencer Pratt led the race to lead second-most-populous city in the country early Wednesday as votes were still being counted. <\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"MHH5UL4JWVGMBHZDDC6KGRGT5A\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Bass, seeking a second term, is trying to overcome frustrations with her handling of wildfires, homelessness and high costs of living. Pratt, a self-proclaimed reality <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/style\/power\/2026\/06\/02\/what-do-know-about-la-mayor-hopeful-spencer-pratt-his-time-reality-tv\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/style\/power\/2026\/06\/02\/what-do-know-about-la-mayor-hopeful-spencer-pratt-his-time-reality-tv\/\">TV \u201cvillain,\u201d<\/a> is challenging Bass from the right, appealing to disappointment in the city\u2019s longtime Democratic leadership. Nithya Raman \u2014 the first Democratic Socialists of America-backed candidate elected to the Los Angeles City Council \u2014 trailed in third place early Wednesday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) and Republican reality TV star Spencer Pratt led the race to lead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-681304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}