Democratic socialist Nithya Raman has toppled incumbent Karen Bass in the race for mayor of Los Angeles.

Raman’s win stunned political watchers in California after she entered the race as a long-shot candidate against Bass, a political heavyweight who previously served in Congress and had never lost a race for political office.

Raman has frequently been compared to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Both are democratic socialists and ran on progressive platforms.

Her win solidifies that America’s two biggest cities will now be led by democratic socialists, which include some of the most high-profile politicians in the US, such as Mamdani and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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Raman, a member of city council and Indian immigrant, ran on a platform of change and fixing the “broken status quo and the politicians who failed them over and over again”.

She ran on cutting homelessness, increasing housing in the city, saving Hollywood jobs from continued cuts, and protecting residents from immigration enforcement efforts. Raman also vowed to fix the city’s many issues, including helping beautification efforts, fixing roads, and even helping bring back nightlife in the city.

The major issue in the race, however, was the LA fires, which killed dozens of people and razed neighbourhoods across the area in 2025. Bass faced intense political fallout over her absence during the emergency and the city’s response to the disaster.

The next mayor in LA will oversee hosting the Super Bowl in 2027 and the 2028 Summer Olympics.
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Washington DC also elected democratic socialist Janeese Lewis George as its new mayor, furthering progressive leadership in another major US city.
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Bass had been a prominent member of Congress before becoming LA's first black female mayor. Her roots are closely tied to LA and its history, even working as a community organiser during the violent 1992 riots over police brutality in the beating of Rodney King.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6e3xxwk3k11o

Shitehole

Is there a bad enough commie lunatic in this entire country that you WON'T celebrate?

You would have made one hell of a Nazi.

(Yesterday 11:34 PM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote:  Is there a bad enough commie lunatic in this entire country that you WON'T celebrate?

You would have made one hell of a Nazi.

He's not an American so...

Maybe she’ll be as successful as the lady in Seattle.

Good. I will never go to LA. Good luck with the fires.

When do we find out the progressives are part of the swamp otherwise they wouldn't let them win?

"Progress" to third world city status will continue.