Socialist Los Angeles City Council member Nithya Raman is surging in the mayoral race, raising fresh concerns that the citys already severe decline could accelerate under even more radical leadership.
According to the Gateway Pundit, Raman, a proud member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), has opened up a double-digit advantage over Democratic Mayor Karen Bass, despite Los Angeles already reeling from homelessness, crime, and unchecked drug use under progressive governance. A University of California Berkeley Institute of Government Studies/Los Angeles Times poll shows Raman at 39% support among likely voters, with Bass trailing at 28%, while roughly one-third of voters remain undecided less than two weeks before mail-in ballots are distributed for the Nov. 3 election.
Poll director Mark DiCamillio underscored the volatility of the race, noting, Its extraordinarily unusual to see this many undecided voters at this point in the race. That uncertainty has not stopped Ramans rise, which many conservatives see as a symptom of a city doubling down on the same failed left-wing policies that helped create its current crisis.
Spencer Pratt, a candidate who was pushed off the ballot after a late wave of mail-in ballots, is now issuing a stark warning to residents. I told everyone that if you dont vote for me, Raman will beat Bass. Thats why she entered the race 10 minutes before the clerks office closed. She knew I was gonna destroy Bass 1-on-1. Good luck LA, Pratt posted on social media, pointing directly to the polls findings.
In another post, Pratt blasted the DSA-aligned council member and the broader Democratic establishment that enabled her rise. Raman is Karens karma. Stabbed in the back by the commie she campaigned for, took pictures with her family the moment Nithya saw an opening, she knifed Karen. Good lesson to all you democrats: NEVER trust the DSA. Socialists have no morals. Theyll gut you, too, he wrote, framing the race as a cautionary tale about embracing hard-left ideology.
Pratt had distinguished himself as one of the few candidates willing to confront, rather than excuse, the citys spiraling homelessness, open-air drug markets, and rising crime with tougher, accountability-focused policies. With his candidacy sidelined and the contest now effectively reduced to a battle between a progressive incumbent and an even more radical socialist, many residents who value law and order, personal responsibility, and limited government see a city trapped in a lose-lose scenario, regardless of which Democrat ultimately prevails.
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