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20
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
15%
3 of 20 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
Leans left
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Publisher signals
67/100
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On Wednesday night, the private election-watcher Decision Desk HQ called the razor-thin mayoral race in slow ballot-counting Los Angeles in favor of challenger Nithya Raman over the fire-embattled incumbent Karen Bass.
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HQ → call → incumbent
If and when that call is confirmed, L.A. will join New York City and Washington, D.C. under the mayoral rule of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).
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L.A. → confirm → America
Raman, an Indian-born 45-year-old City Councilwoman and former owner of a homelessness nonprofit, was up 51.7 percent to 48.3 percent with 72 percent of the vote counted as of 7:20 a.m. West Coast time.
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percent → bear → a.m.
The full count might take as long as another week.
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count → take → week
Bass, the 73-year-old machine-politics lifer who came alarmingly close to being Joe Biden's vice-presidential pick in 2020, is remarkably, if deservedly, unpopular, with an unfavorability/favorability rating of 65 percent to 32 percent, according to a recent Berkeley IGS/Los Angeles Times poll.
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who → come → poll
She was inexplicably in Ghana during the ruinous and predictable Pacific Palisades fire in January 2025, breaking a campaign promise to not indulge in her precious overseas trips.
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She → break → trips
And she did not impress upon return, redirecting blame elsewhere for the city's many emergency-planning shortfalls, then presiding over an agonizingly slow rebuilding process.
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she → impress → process
California's top-two jungle primary system produced two main challenges to Bass's power of incumbency: The reality TV populist Spencer Pratt to the right (in the absence of more experienced candidates, such as Austin Beutner or Bass's 2022 opponent Rick Caruso), and then on the left a late-breaking challenge from Bass's former ally Raman.
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system → produce → ally
Bass and Raman scratched out the top two slots, 34.3 percent and 29 percent to Pratt's 25.5, after which the colorful outsider lamented that "Angelenos are now stuck with two morons responsible for all their problems and now have to choose between dumb and dumber."
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Angelenos → scratch → dumb
Those seeking a Raman comp with New York Mayor and DSA kingmaker Zohran Mamdani have to overcome a rather large gap in observable charisma.
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Those → seek → charisma
Mamdani, with his perma-smile and social media slickness, has an approval/disapproval rating of 69 percent to 28 percent, while the more tongue-tied Raman, who did not impress at mayoral debates, sits slightly underwater, at 42 percent/49 percent.
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who → have → percent
Her colleagues on the City Council don't like her.
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colleagues → like → her
Even the DSA has a fraught relationship with their latest poster child; the day before the election, the national DSA, which had never endorsed her, voted only 14–13 to not revoke the endorsement by the local DSA chapter, over the usually disqualifying issue that Raman does not support the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign against Israel.
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Raman → have → Israel
As The New York Times put it, "If Ms. Raman wins, [political experts] say, it will not be because she is the West Coast Mamdani.
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she → put → it
On the stump, Raman presented herself as an outside challenger to a status quo that has allowed homelessness to spread and development to stall.
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development → present → quo
Los Angeles, she complained to followers on election night, "stopped being a place where we could build things, where we could open things, where we could film things."
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we → complain → things
Her policy differences with Bass were narrow, if vociferously stated.
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differences → state → Bass
As the Los Angeles Times delicately headlined it, "L.A. mayoral candidate Nithya Raman has strong opinions.
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Raman → headline → opinions
But they often change.
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they → change → ?
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So now L.A. is set to have a Democratic Socialist overseeing the 2028 Summer Olympics, and seeking to undo the wreckage of Democratic politics by trying something a little further to the left.
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L.A. → set → left
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