{"id":79569,"date":"2026-10-05T08:54:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T13:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/05\/the-surprising-cut-throat-race-for-los-angeles-mayor\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T08:54:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T13:54:48","slug":"the-surprising-cut-throat-race-for-los-angeles-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/05\/the-surprising-cut-throat-race-for-los-angeles-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"The surprising, cut-throat race for Los Angeles mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karen Bass is fighting for her political life as progressives battle to lead the US\u2019s second-largest city<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Karen Bass has never lost an election. But this fall, she faces the fight of her political life.<\/p>\n<p>Bass has roughly a month to convince voters that she should be elected to a second term as the mayor of Los Angeles. Given Angelenos\u2019 broad dissatisfaction with the direction of the city, approval ratings on par with Donald Trump\u2019s and a wave of anti-establishment sentiment sweeping American politics, she has a formidable challenge in city council member Nithya Raman.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2026\/oct\/05\/the-surprising-cut-throat-race-for-los-angeles-mayor\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karen Bass is fighting for her political life as progressives battle to lead the US\u2019s second-largest city Karen Bass has never lost an election. But this fall, she faces the fight of her political life. Bass has roughly a month to convince voters that she should be elected to a second term as the mayor &#8230; <a title=\"The surprising, cut-throat race for Los Angeles mayor\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/05\/the-surprising-cut-throat-race-for-los-angeles-mayor\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The surprising, cut-throat race for Los Angeles mayor\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79569","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=79569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}