<p class="p1">Representative Karen Bass (D-CA) has taken a slight lead over former Republican Rick Caruso in the Los Angeles mayoral primary election, gaining ground after a surge of mail-in ballots were counted earlier this week.</p>
<p class="p1">The latest results revealed that Bass has 41% of the vote over Caruso, who has gotten 38% so far. However, there are still <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-06-14/bass-pulls-ahead-of-caruso-in-latest-vote-count-for-l-a-mayor">more</a> than 350,000 votes that have not yet been tallied, and the final count might not be known for days or even weeks.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="p1">The day after the June 7 election, Caruso, a former Republican running as a moderate Democrat, was slightly ahead of Bass, but last-minute mail-in votes boosted Bass and other hardline Democrats on the ballot.</p>
<p class="p1">Since neither Bass nor Caruso has received more than 50% of the votes required to avoid a runoff, it is expected that the two will face off in November&#8217;s general election.</p>
<p class="p1">This past weekend, Bass appeared on MSNBC’s “The Sunday Show With Jonathan Capehart” and discussed the amount of money Caruso, a billionaire developer, has spent.</p>
<p class="p1">“You would have thought $40 million compared to $3 million, that I would have been wiped out,” Bass said.</p>
<p class="p1">After the Tuesday announcement, Anna Bahr, spokeswoman for the Bass campaign, told The Los Angeles Times, “Angelenos want a mission-driven, battle-tested leader with the proven experience of pulling people together to confront the crises we are facing.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="p1">Caruso spokesperson Peter Ragone said the campaign is “excited to accomplish our goal of making the runoff and giving voters a chance to clean up L.A.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="p1">“Voters will have a clear choice when they go to the polls between a career politician who just last week went on record saying she can’t fix the homelessness crisis and a leader who can clean up L.A. and deal with homelessness, crime and corruption,” Ragone said.</p>
<p class="p1">In 2020, Bass was <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/510399-karen-bass-im-not-a-socialist-im-not-a-communist/"><span class="s1">considered</span></a> as a possible running mate for then-presidential candidate Joe Biden. At the time, Bass pushed back on allegations that she was a communist or socialist after Republicans pointed out how she had visited Cuba several times and once spoken well of Fidel Castro after he died — comments she later <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/02/karen-bass-fidel-castro-390413"><span class="s1">took</span></a> back.</p>
<p class="p1">“I’m not a socialist. I’m not a communist. I’ve belonged to one party my entire life and that’s the Democratic Party, and I’m a Christian,” Bass <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/i-m-not-communist-potential-biden-running-mate-rep-bass-n1235667"><span class="s1">told NBC News</span></a>.</p>

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