{"id":74364,"date":"2026-06-03T00:59:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T05:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/karen-bass-heads-to-la-mayoral-runoff-after-falling-short-of-majority\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T00:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T05:59:59","slug":"karen-bass-heads-to-la-mayoral-runoff-after-falling-short-of-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/karen-bass-heads-to-la-mayoral-runoff-after-falling-short-of-majority\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen Bass heads to LA mayoral runoff after falling short of majority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Incumbent comes out on top in primary election \u2013 but with less than 50% of votes \u2013 and will take on challenger in November<\/p>\n<p>Karen Bass has come out ahead in Tuesday\u2019s heated primary for Los Angeles mayor, but with less than 50% of the vote will have to defend her seat in November\u2019s general election.<\/p>\n<p>Bass will face either Spencer Pratt, a former reality TV star, or city council member Nithya Raman, in November. As of Tuesday evening, it was still unclear who would move on<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/02\/karen-bass-los-angeles-mayoral-primary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incumbent comes out on top in primary election \u2013 but with less than 50% of votes \u2013 and will take on challenger in November Karen Bass has come out ahead in Tuesday\u2019s heated primary for Los Angeles mayor, but with less than 50% of the vote will have to defend her seat in November\u2019s general &#8230; <a title=\"Karen Bass heads to LA mayoral runoff after falling short of majority\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/karen-bass-heads-to-la-mayoral-runoff-after-falling-short-of-majority\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Karen Bass heads to LA mayoral runoff after falling short of majority\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}