Why LA’s Mayor Race Is Heading to a Runoff — Can Spencer Win? | LA Politics Explained

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[00:00:00]Why? You have the DSA essay candidate.

[00:00:03]You have Karen Bass as the incumbent and then you have Spencer. You have a few other mayoral candidates that will probably get 3 to 10% of the votes. So let me break it down to you. So if you were to technically have just those three, you would have 33, 33, 33% of the votes.

[00:00:21]Let's just take three off of each one.

[00:00:23]So we're down to 30% of the votes for each one.

[00:00:27]Chances are two of those three are going to come up to go to the primary election. What's going to happen there is we're going to end up having a runoff.