Under California law, only the two top-performing candidates in state primaries can proceed to the general election in November, regardless of political party. The race for California governor and mayor of Los Angeles remain undecided even though Mayor Karen Bass has qualified for one of the mayor slots.
In the mayor’s race, conservative Spencer Pratt was overtaken by left-wing Nithya Raman over the weekend. Eighty-three percent of the vote has been counted.
Raman now holds 27.1% while Pratt trails at 26.7%, a margin of roughly 3,000 votes.
Without another shift, Pratt, whose campaign has drawn national attention, will fail to advance to the general election.
In the Governor's race, Republican Steve Hilton continues to battle Democrats Xavier Becerra and Tom Steyer for the two slots. Even though the election was June 2nd, the counting continues.
Becerra has been projected by The Associated Press to advance to the general election with 27% of the vote. He leads Hilton by 95,000 votes.
Hilton has 26% of the vote compared to Steyer who has 21-22% and sits in third place.
The top two advance to the general election.
Gary Bauer is the Chairman of the Campaign for Working Families. He questions whether either Hilton or Pratt can make their respective runoffs.
"I think there are shenanigans going on, and I've already seen some signs that we may be watching a repeat of what we've seen in a number of election cycles, and I think Pratt particularly could be in trouble and facing the possibility that another candidate who's even more far left than Mayor Bass could end up surpassing Pratt by the time all these absentee ballots are counted in the city of Los Angeles."
And Bauer says if either Hilton or Pratt make the runoffs …
"We will have five more months of them campaigning and holding to account the leftists that run the state of California and run the city of Los Angeles. As far as them winning in November, I think that would almost take a miracle. "
