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A recall election in 2024 ousted Supervisor Joel Engardio, which was followed by an appointed supervisor who lasted a week and then Wong’s appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We won because of the hard work of our campaign team, our volunteers and because we had the right message and goals for the Sunset: focus on the basics of governance and deliver practical results for constituents,” Wong said in a statement. “My message and goals were simple: for too long, City Hall has been focused on political ideology and grandiose policies while many Sunset residents have felt unheard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Natalie Gee, a legislative aide for Supervisor Shamann Walton, was carrying 31% of the initial vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gee raised $402,000 in donations and \u003ca href=\"https://sfethics.org/guidance/campaigns/candidates/public-financing-program/public-financing-program-overview\">public financing\u003c/a> combined, plus around $386,000 from a committee backed by local labor organizations. Wong, who had Lurie’s endorsement, received $394,000, plus big boosts from PACs aligned with Mayor Daniel Lurie, including $207,000 from moderate political group GrowSF and $410,000 from SF Believes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wong ran on promises to restore a “compromise” to bring cars back to the Great Highway during the week and keep the road car-free on weekends. The fate of the road, which is currently closed to cars and known as Sunset Dunes park, was a central issue in the district’s recent recall election. 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She supported the Overpaid CEO Tax as a way to raise funding for affordable housing and other public services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After the plan passed, we immediately saw large-scale development proposals move forward without meaningful community input,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing was also a central issue in the city’s District 2 supervisor race, where Stephen Sherrill, the incumbent, took a commanding 70% of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m so proud of the progress we’ve made over the last year to keep San Francisco moving in the right direction. We’ve made our neighborhoods safer, brought new energy to our commercial corridors, advanced much-needed housing and pushed City Hall to be more responsive and accountable. There is still more work to do, but I believe deeply in this city and in what we can accomplish together,” Sherrill said in a statement Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lori Brooke, president of the Cow Hollow Association, carried 30%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooke strongly opposed the mayor’s housing plan, telling KQED it won’t solve the affordability crisis and “it’s just deregulating our zoning in San Francisco.” She characterized the statewide push for more housing as “a developer giveaway,” arguing that it ignores local voices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before building more housing, Brooke said she wanted to find ways to put vacant units and illegal units into use for rentals. 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In terms of power, there’s really nothing like it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Trump seeks to reverse long-term decline in U.S. coal\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The announcement is the latest step by Trump to try to reverse the years-long decline in the U.S. coal industry. 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Natural gas provides about 43% of U.S. electricity, with the remainder from nuclear energy and renewables such as wind, solar and hydropower.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Coal exports have dropped\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>U.S. coal exports dropped during the first year of Trump’s second term, largely due to less coal being shipped to China after it imposed reciprocal tariffs on American products last year in response to broad tariffs announced by Trump, according to the Energy Information Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Global coal demand rose to record levels in recent years but is expected to flatten or decline in coming years, according the International Energy Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s hard for U.S. companies to expand into new markets because there are plentiful reserves of coal around the globe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015107\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12015107 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/OaklandGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1123\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/OaklandGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/OaklandGetty-800x449.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/OaklandGetty-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/OaklandGetty-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/OaklandGetty-1536x862.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/OaklandGetty-1920x1078.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trump’s plan will also help restart a shuttered coal-fired power plant in Maryland and support construction of a long-delayed coal export terminal in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even so, Trump has pushed to revive coal exports on the West Coast. 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Gray Davis, a decidedly unflashy but steady technocrat, surprisingly won with the slogan, “Experience Money Can’t Buy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were echoes of that earlier campaign in this year’s topsy-turvy, chaotic and unpredictable race for governor, where former Health and Human Services Secretary and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra ignored calls for him to drop out lest Democrats split the vote and let Republicans take the top two spots in November. Timing, luck and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12079746/rep-eric-swalwell-says-he-is-resigning-from-congress-amid-sexual-assault-allegations\">sudden implosion of frontrunner Eric Swalwell’s campaign\u003c/a> gave Becerra the oxygen he needed to stay alive and ultimately battle for first place in the preliminary returns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At his victory celebration in Los Angeles on Tuesday night, Becerra, the son of working-class parents from Mexico, reveled in his underdog story, which he called worthy of a Hollywood movie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Almost immediately, he’s counted out. An afterthought. Overlooked by many. Outspent by a ton. Even called along the way to drop out and save us all the trouble,” Becerra said. “Well, guess what? The underdog stayed in the fight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It will be days before we know for sure that Becerra will make the runoff — there’s still a chance Steyer could sneak into the top two \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12085541/california-governor-race-becerra-hilton-lead-early-with-millions-of-votes-to-be-counted\">when all the ballots are counted\u003c/a>. But for those who said Becerra represents the status quo, play-it-safe, corporate-controlled leadership, remember this: It’s been 150 years since California had a Latino governor — a Republican named \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romualdo_Pacheco\">Romualdo Pacheco\u003c/a> — as voters have chosen one white man after another to lead the state.[aside label=\"Live 2026 Election Results\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/california/governor,Learn about the results of the California Governor Election' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2026/04/Aside-California-Governor-2026-Primary-Election-1200x1200@2x.png]Of course Becerra isn’t governor yet, but he’ll be the odds-on favorite if he faces Republican Hilton in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s building a really broad-based, multi-ethnic middle-class coalition,” said Mike Madrid, a Latino Republican political analyst who helped found the anti-Trump Lincoln Project. He noted that while Becerra attracted solid support from Latino voters, it was less than Antonio Villaraigosa did in 2018 when he ran a losing campaign for governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Madrid sees Becerra’s success as drawing from elements of the historic coalition that has been slipping away from Democrats recently — working-class, noncollege-educated whites, among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So there’s something very different happening in the redefinition of Democratic politics in California,” Madrid said. “It’s kind of a reemergence of this sort of FDR wing of the party. And it’s not just an ethnic identity thing; it’s really more of a middle-class identity thing. If there’s an identity, it’s no racial or ethnic anymore, it’s class, which is fascinating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Becerra wins, he’ll become a national figure — a Latino governor of a state often targeted by a president who has made demonizing, demoralizing and deporting immigrants a fundamental priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is bigger than Trump. Our values are undeniable and undeportable,” Becerra said to supporters on Tuesday night. “To the people and voters of California, this is your state: Este es tu estado. We will not be bought, we will not be bullied, and we are never backing down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, in a San Francisco congressional race with national implications, another candidate with an immigrant background had a successful night. Supervisor Connie Chan, with a major boost from Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s late endorsement and solid union support, vaulted into second place in the 11th Congressional District with 29% of the vote. She’ll face state Sen. 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Sala Burton. Now, Wiener is hoping to be the city’s first openly gay member of Congress. Pelosi’s endorsement came with praise for Chan’s immigrant background, being a mother and understanding budgets (Wiener also chaired the state Senate’s budget committee) as reasons for her support. But some saw her determination to derail the candidacy of Saikat Chakrabarti, another Democrat she clashed with when he briefly worked for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that she’s accomplished that with Chakrabarti’s distant third-place finish, it remains to be seen how much political capital she’ll spend on what could be an uphill battle to defeat Wiener in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ll wait for millions of remaining ballots to be counted before we know who will advance to November from the governor’s race to local congressional elections. The state’s top election official knows that can be frustrating, but she’s undaunted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I often hear, not only from the governor but from everyone else who (says) ‘we want you to count faster, Shirley,’” Secretary of State Shirley Weber told KQED this week. “Now what do you want? You want me to go fast, or do you want to be accurate? I choose accurate — (but) we’ll be accurate and fast at the same time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results\">\u003cstrong>Follow our election coverage as additional results come in\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Thurmond said \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/TonyThurmond/status/1682240216491520000\">on social media\u003c/a> that students had invited him to speak in opposition to a proposed policy that would force schools to inform parents if their child identified as transgender, mirroring failed statewide legislation, before the Chino Valley School Board heckled and forcibly removed him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw and Barrera were among 10 candidates in the race for the job of overseeing the state’s 10,000 public schools as they grapple with funding cuts, higher costs and the challenges of AI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw has built her campaign around the culture war issue of transgender rights in schools — particularly opposing transgender girls’ participation on athletic teams that match their gender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12086065\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12086065 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Sonja-Shaw-Getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Sonja-Shaw-Getty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Sonja-Shaw-Getty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Sonja-Shaw-Getty-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton, left, and California state superintendent candidate Sonja Shaw are seen during a news conference and protest against the participation of a transgender athlete in the 106th California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) State Track & Field Championships outside Veterans Memorial Stadium in Clovis, California, on May 29, 2026. \u003ccite>(Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Your daughters are in locker rooms with boys all across California,” she \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/realSonjaShaw/status/2060535081199174039\">said\u003c/a> at a press conference days before the election at the California Interscholastic Federation’s Track and Field championships, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12084083/california-quietly-brings-back-controversial-scoring-policy-for-trans-student-athletes\">transgender athlete AB Hernandez\u003c/a> won two state titles. CIF reinstituted a pilot policy launched ahead of the competition that allows an additional girl to compete and medal in any event that includes a transgender athlete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When are you going to stand up and say no? … Fix it at the ballot box,” Shaw continued, standing alongside Trump-endorsed gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw told KQED on Wednesday that her victory sends a clear message: “Parents and people all throughout California have had enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Barrera, who’s been endorsed by the California Teachers Association and Thurmond, is likely to pick up most of the votes from a slew of Democratic opponents. He currently sits comfortably ahead of the pack with 18.9% of the votes.[aside label=\"Live 2026 Election Results\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/california/governor,Learn about the results of the California Governor Election' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2026/04/Aside-California-Governor-2026-Primary-Election-1200x1200@2x.png]Barrera has been a school board member in San Diego since 2008 and served as board president during San Diego Unified’s rise as one of the\u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegounified.org/about/newscenter/all_news/2024NAEP\"> top-performing urban districts\u003c/a> in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barrett Snider, an education lobbyist with Capitol Advisors, said he expects the school board president to pick up supporters from educator Wendy Castaneda Leal, Los Angeles Community College District board member Nichelle Henderson and multiple statewide lawmakers, who garnered between 8% and 10% of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Shaw] got the most because she was really the only prominent conservative running in that race. And then you had just a large bench of sort of blue candidates,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Snider said that CTA has a long track record of successfully ushering candidates into the state superintendent’s seat. He expects that now that Barrera is presumed to advance to the general election, the union will ramp up opposition to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposal to move the Department of Education under his control — changing the nature of the superintendent role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Newsom’s 2026-27 budget, which suggested overhauling California’s education governance system, the state superintendent would mostly serve as an independent advocate for the state’s public education system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barrera called the plan to move the Department of Education under the governor’s office “undemocratic.” The state Senate rejected Newsom’s proposal in their version of the budget, and the Assembly has proposed handling the potential restructuring through different legislation. Newsom terms out this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12086202\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12086202 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Richard-Barerra-Getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Richard-Barerra-Getty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Richard-Barerra-Getty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Richard-Barerra-Getty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Diego Unified Board Member Richard Barrera speaks during a press conference to announce a bill that adds COVID-19 vaccines to California’s list of required inoculations for attending K-12 schools at Arleta High School on Jan. 24, 2022, in Los Angeles, California. \u003ccite>(Dania Maxwell/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Arne Johnson, an advocate with the Bay Area-based transgender rights group Rainbow Family Action, said he wasn’t surprised to see Shaw advance to the general election, but worries that she’ll continue to have a platform for “stunts” and “politically motivated heat” toward transgender children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’ll get trounced in the general election,” he said. “It’s just more funding and more time for her to cause damage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barrera said he respects that Shaw — as a school board president — brings a local perspective to the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I don’t respect is that she chooses to use her platform and influence to divide her community, and to single out groups of students,” he said. “It’s two very different visions of what California public schools can be. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two candidates for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a>’s second-highest job were virtually tied in the race for lieutenant governor as votes trickled in early Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Treasurer Fiona Ma, a Democrat, and former state legislator Republican Gloria Romero were leading a tight pack of mostly Democratic hopefuls with nearly 20% each. Newsom cabinet official Josh Fryday followed with about 14%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lieutenant governor is mostly a ceremonial position with a lukewarm reputation in Sacramento. But the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/04/california-lieutenant-governor-race/\">No. 2 job in the state\u003c/a> has been used as a slingshot to the governor’s office before, drawing in four major candidates eager to replace Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, who terms out this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ma, Fryday and former Stockton Mayor Tubbs are the leading Democratic candidates in a top-two primary that will send two candidates on to the November general election. Fryday, who heads volunteer programs for the state, has amassed the biggest treasure chest — nearly $4 million — and is backed by teachers unions and the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ma, a longtime politician with deep roots in San Francisco, is endorsed by influential labor unions and has raised about $2.8 million. But her run for the second-highest statewide office is shadowed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article253382258.html\">2021 sexual harassment allegations\u003c/a> that Tubbs supporters have latched onto. Ma has called the allegation “frivolous”, but the state paid $350,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by one of her former employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946514\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946514\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS43525_GettyImages-1208196864-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A profile picture of a man looking off-camera to his right.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS43525_GettyImages-1208196864-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS43525_GettyImages-1208196864-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS43525_GettyImages-1208196864-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS43525_GettyImages-1208196864-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS43525_GettyImages-1208196864-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Tubbs, former mayor of Stockton, implemented an 18-month trial of Universal Basic Income for 125 residents in the city. \u003ccite>(Nick Otto/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tubbs was among the first to announce his campaign in 2024. Once a progressive star, he rose to political stardom 10 years ago as a young big city mayor who piloted a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/04/california-guaranteed-income/\">guaranteed income program\u003c/a> in Stockton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ousted by a Republican newcomer, his political career seemed to fade and he went on to lead Mayors for a Guaranteed Income, an advocacy organization. It’s his first crack at public office since then, and he’s garnered support from progressive Democrats and the powerful union SEIU California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longtime state lawmaker Romero is the leading Republican. Romero spent 12 years representing East Los Angeles in the state Legislature as a Democrat. She switched parties in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Higher education at the forefront\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The major Democratic candidates have struggled to set themselves apart on policy. Because the lieutenant governor sits on all three college governing boards, each has claimed they would work to make universities build more housing and lower tuition costs. This has included practical solutions from directing Federal Student Aid applicants to food assistance program CalFresh, to more far-fetched ones, such as free tuition for in-demand programs, such as nursing.[aside label=\"Live 2026 Election Results\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/california/governor,Learn about the results of the California Governor Election' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2026/04/Aside-California-Governor-2026-Primary-Election-1200x1200@2x.png]The lieutenant governor also sits on the commission responsible for millions of acres of public land. Fryday thinks identifying more undeveloped land to build student housing on will help lower tuition costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ma wants Cal State universities, which rely heavily on state funding, to find other revenue sources through partnerships with private companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an April candidate debate in Los Angeles, Tubbs said he supports freezing tuition but did not elaborate on how he would make up the loss in revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Romero seeks greater transparency about faculty, salaries and housing allowances and would push for more student representation on the UC Board of Regents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To set themselves apart, the Democrats have leaned on their distinct backgrounds. Fryday has made clean energy a core part of his campaign as a former executive of a clean energy organization started by billionaire gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer. Ma has framed the job as another bulwark against the Trump administration. 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"content": "\u003cp>After months of campaigning, millions of dollars’ worth of advertisements and a 61-candidate ballot for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12085541/california-governor-race-becerra-hilton-lead-early-with-millions-of-votes-to-be-counted\">governor\u003c/a> that included names such as LivingForGod AndCountry DeMott and Barack D. Obama Shaw, California voters have arrived at the next phase of the election:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After counting late into election night, just 54% of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/california/governor\">vote for governor\u003c/a> has been tallied as of Wednesday afternoon, according to an estimate from the\u003cem> Associated Press\u003c/em>. Many of the state’s largest counties won’t issue another update until Thursday — or even Friday — meaning longer waits for hundreds of thousands of votes that could have an impact on the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once again, the crawling pace could draw false accusations, largely from national Republicans, that something nefarious is happening with the count in California. Gov. Gavin Newsom acknowledged that concern when he recently urged election officials to speed up their work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those registrars and experts argue that without more resources, California will continue to endure \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12081363/california-election-officials-face-false-choice-count-votes-quickly-or-count-them-right\">days or weeks of uncertainty\u003c/a> in the closest contests on the ballot as long as it relies so heavily on voting by mail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The two biggest variables of how long it takes a state actually to count ballots aren’t so much the policies. It is, one, the margin of victory, and two, the number of mail ballots that are cast at the last minute,” said David Becker, executive director and founder of the nonpartisan, nonprofit Center for Election Innovation & Research, which works to ensure elections are trustworthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said there’s an important distinction between how long it takes for election watchers like the \u003cem>AP\u003c/em> to call winners in a race and how long it takes for local officials to count all the ballots. Many races are called days or weeks before the votes are finished being tabulated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12085889\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12085889\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260602_PRIMARY2026CD4_GC-20-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260602_PRIMARY2026CD4_GC-20-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260602_PRIMARY2026CD4_GC-20-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260602_PRIMARY2026CD4_GC-20-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Voters cast their ballots at UC Davis in Davis on June 2, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The quicker the call is, the wider the margins are,” he said. “Californians know that on election night in a presidential election at 8:01 Pacific time, the media is going to call California already, right? That’s not because they’re counting ballots that fast. It’s because the margins were big. In different statewide races, particularly in primaries and in district races, margins can often be very, very narrow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s true this year in the top-two primaries for several \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12085513/california-primary-2026-key-congressional-races-to-watch-today\">congressional races\u003c/a> around the state, as well as the much-watched contests for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12086040/race-too-close-to-call-for-california-governor\">governor\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12086090/los-angeles-mayor-karen-bass-advances-to-november-runoff-as-she-seeks-second-term\">Los Angeles mayor\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who votes when also matters in those races, Political Data Inc. Vice President Paul Mitchell, whose firm crunches voter data, said. This election cycle, Republicans seemed more eager to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12084978/california-democrats-anxious-about-wasted-votes-are-clinging-to-their-ballots\">turn in their ballots early\u003c/a>, he said, while Democrats waited — meaning the early returns may overrepresent more conservative voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to providing more funding for county election offices, Becker said one thing California could do to speed up its count is “encourage those who are willing and able to go vote in person, to vote in person, particularly early.”[aside label=\"Live 2026 Election Results\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/california/governor,Learn about the results of the California Governor Election' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2026/04/Aside-California-Governor-2026-Primary-Election-1200x1200@2x.png]California began \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11890023/california-adopts-vote-by-mail-system-for-all-future-elections\">sending every registered voter a mail ballot\u003c/a> by default during the pandemic, in an effort to make voting as easy as possible. In California’s 2024 general election, more than 80% of voters cast a vote-by-mail ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trade-off: processing time. With traditional in-person voting, voters’ signatures are reviewed \u003cem>before \u003c/em>they cast a ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With vote-by-mail, the verification and processing happens after election officials receive a ballot. Every signature on every envelope is reviewed to match the voter’s signature on file, a check meant to prevent voter fraud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody wants efficient and fast counting, but let’s be clear, efficient and accurate is way more important than fast,” said Darius Kemp, executive director of California Common Cause, a nonpartisan political watchdog organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When voters wait until close to Election Day to return their ballots, as many Democrats did in this race, those ballots can pile up in election offices — only to be processed and added to the count days later, especially in large counties with millions of votes to tally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Johnson, the Republican speaker of the House, claimed earlier this year that Republican leads in California have “magically whittled away” during the vote-counting process. But that’s false, Kemp said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no mystery there; it’s simple to understand, and it’s simple to digest,” Kemp said. “It just takes someone who cares about honesty and truth to actually do the proper research and understand what’s going on, instead of — excuse me for this colloquialism, I’m originally from Alabama — just talking out the side of their necks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12084670\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12084670\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GavinNewsomAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GavinNewsomAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GavinNewsomAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GavinNewsomAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks about his state budget proposal on Thursday, May 14, 2026, in Sacramento, California. \u003ccite>(Jeff Chiu/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, even some Democrats acknowledge the slow count has frustrated members of the public and opened the door to disinformation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter last month calling on county election officials to speed up their counts, Newsom pointed to legislation he signed last year that requires counties to report results by the 13th day after the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We must acknowledge that the longer the voting count takes, the more mis- and disinformation spreads,” Newsom wrote. “That means we must do all that we can to tabulate votes quickly and accurately. Time is of the essence in preventing election lies from taking hold.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the new policies have not been paired with new money for counting the ballots.[aside postID=news_12085541 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GETTYIMAGES-2279541285-KQED.jpg']“If I had more space, if I had more staff and had more equipment to scan, I could pick up some of the speed,” said Jesse Salinas, registrar of voters in Yolo County and president of the California Association of Clerks and Election Officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salinas said only about 30% of ballots received by his office can be signature-verified by a machine; the rest require an election worker to visually validate the signatures. After verification, election workers open the envelopes and prepare the ballots to be scanned and read by the machine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While that process slowly plays out, Salinas acknowledged that he prefers to release the returns in large batches. As a result, Yolo County — like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/alameda\">Alameda\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/contracosta\">Contra Costa\u003c/a> counties in the Bay Area — will not have its next update until Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I do 1,000 a day or 2,000 a day, that’s not going to move as much of a needle as if I used a little longer window of two and a half days … almost three,” Salinas said. “Then I can have a 3,000 or 4,000, or maybe even a 5,000 [vote] needle swing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becker, the elections expert, said he’s not sure why county officials would wait that long, noting that some states, such as Florida, have laws dictating regular updates — whether or not there’s anything new to report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Becker said election officials are doing their best under difficult circumstances — and cautioned that no changes to the process will satisfy election conspiracy theorists, who he said, “very conveniently try to latch onto anything to delegitimize results that aren’t in their favor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is that we’ve seen those same conspiracy theorists who say it takes too long to count ballots in California say ballot counting was too fast when they didn’t like the results if those results were early on against them,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those registrars and experts argue that without more resources, California will continue to endure \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12081363/california-election-officials-face-false-choice-count-votes-quickly-or-count-them-right\">days or weeks of uncertainty\u003c/a> in the closest contests on the ballot as long as it relies so heavily on voting by mail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The two biggest variables of how long it takes a state actually to count ballots aren’t so much the policies. It is, one, the margin of victory, and two, the number of mail ballots that are cast at the last minute,” said David Becker, executive director and founder of the nonpartisan, nonprofit Center for Election Innovation & Research, which works to ensure elections are trustworthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said there’s an important distinction between how long it takes for election watchers like the \u003cem>AP\u003c/em> to call winners in a race and how long it takes for local officials to count all the ballots. Many races are called days or weeks before the votes are finished being tabulated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12085889\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12085889\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260602_PRIMARY2026CD4_GC-20-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260602_PRIMARY2026CD4_GC-20-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260602_PRIMARY2026CD4_GC-20-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260602_PRIMARY2026CD4_GC-20-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Voters cast their ballots at UC Davis in Davis on June 2, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The quicker the call is, the wider the margins are,” he said. “Californians know that on election night in a presidential election at 8:01 Pacific time, the media is going to call California already, right? That’s not because they’re counting ballots that fast. It’s because the margins were big. In different statewide races, particularly in primaries and in district races, margins can often be very, very narrow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s true this year in the top-two primaries for several \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12085513/california-primary-2026-key-congressional-races-to-watch-today\">congressional races\u003c/a> around the state, as well as the much-watched contests for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12086040/race-too-close-to-call-for-california-governor\">governor\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12086090/los-angeles-mayor-karen-bass-advances-to-november-runoff-as-she-seeks-second-term\">Los Angeles mayor\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who votes when also matters in those races, Political Data Inc. Vice President Paul Mitchell, whose firm crunches voter data, said. This election cycle, Republicans seemed more eager to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12084978/california-democrats-anxious-about-wasted-votes-are-clinging-to-their-ballots\">turn in their ballots early\u003c/a>, he said, while Democrats waited — meaning the early returns may overrepresent more conservative voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to providing more funding for county election offices, Becker said one thing California could do to speed up its count is “encourage those who are willing and able to go vote in person, to vote in person, particularly early.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>California began \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11890023/california-adopts-vote-by-mail-system-for-all-future-elections\">sending every registered voter a mail ballot\u003c/a> by default during the pandemic, in an effort to make voting as easy as possible. In California’s 2024 general election, more than 80% of voters cast a vote-by-mail ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trade-off: processing time. With traditional in-person voting, voters’ signatures are reviewed \u003cem>before \u003c/em>they cast a ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With vote-by-mail, the verification and processing happens after election officials receive a ballot. Every signature on every envelope is reviewed to match the voter’s signature on file, a check meant to prevent voter fraud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody wants efficient and fast counting, but let’s be clear, efficient and accurate is way more important than fast,” said Darius Kemp, executive director of California Common Cause, a nonpartisan political watchdog organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When voters wait until close to Election Day to return their ballots, as many Democrats did in this race, those ballots can pile up in election offices — only to be processed and added to the count days later, especially in large counties with millions of votes to tally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Johnson, the Republican speaker of the House, claimed earlier this year that Republican leads in California have “magically whittled away” during the vote-counting process. But that’s false, Kemp said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no mystery there; it’s simple to understand, and it’s simple to digest,” Kemp said. “It just takes someone who cares about honesty and truth to actually do the proper research and understand what’s going on, instead of — excuse me for this colloquialism, I’m originally from Alabama — just talking out the side of their necks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12084670\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12084670\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GavinNewsomAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GavinNewsomAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GavinNewsomAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GavinNewsomAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks about his state budget proposal on Thursday, May 14, 2026, in Sacramento, California. \u003ccite>(Jeff Chiu/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, even some Democrats acknowledge the slow count has frustrated members of the public and opened the door to disinformation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter last month calling on county election officials to speed up their counts, Newsom pointed to legislation he signed last year that requires counties to report results by the 13th day after the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We must acknowledge that the longer the voting count takes, the more mis- and disinformation spreads,” Newsom wrote. “That means we must do all that we can to tabulate votes quickly and accurately. Time is of the essence in preventing election lies from taking hold.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the new policies have not been paired with new money for counting the ballots.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“If I had more space, if I had more staff and had more equipment to scan, I could pick up some of the speed,” said Jesse Salinas, registrar of voters in Yolo County and president of the California Association of Clerks and Election Officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salinas said only about 30% of ballots received by his office can be signature-verified by a machine; the rest require an election worker to visually validate the signatures. After verification, election workers open the envelopes and prepare the ballots to be scanned and read by the machine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While that process slowly plays out, Salinas acknowledged that he prefers to release the returns in large batches. As a result, Yolo County — like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/alameda\">Alameda\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/contracosta\">Contra Costa\u003c/a> counties in the Bay Area — will not have its next update until Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I do 1,000 a day or 2,000 a day, that’s not going to move as much of a needle as if I used a little longer window of two and a half days … almost three,” Salinas said. “Then I can have a 3,000 or 4,000, or maybe even a 5,000 [vote] needle swing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becker, the elections expert, said he’s not sure why county officials would wait that long, noting that some states, such as Florida, have laws dictating regular updates — whether or not there’s anything new to report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Becker said election officials are doing their best under difficult circumstances — and cautioned that no changes to the process will satisfy election conspiracy theorists, who he said, “very conveniently try to latch onto anything to delegitimize results that aren’t in their favor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is that we’ve seen those same conspiracy theorists who say it takes too long to count ballots in California say ballot counting was too fast when they didn’t like the results if those results were early on against them,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The county has about 2 million residents, and the office sees about 40,000 cases a year, according to the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosen said Tuesday the next four years will bring financial uncertainty at all levels of government and vowed to be a strong voice for public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Public safety is foundational, fundamental and it’s nonnegotiable,” he said, promising to protect it “like a lioness guards her cubs.”[aside label=\"Live 2026 Election Results\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/santaclara,Santa Clara County: Stay informed with the latest results for elected leaders and measures passed' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2026/05/Aside-Results-2026-Local-Elections-Santa-Clara-County-1200x1200@2x.png]Chung was working as a prosecutor when disputes arose between him and Rosen over an op-ed Chung wrote in a local newspaper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosen initially fired Chung, but his job was restored in arbitration. 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That does not work,” he said, adding that young people are “losing hope” when it comes to climate change, housing, gun violence and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporter Elizabeth Joyce said she was “really delighted” that the pro-housing lawmaker “may get to replace Nancy Pelosi.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi, she said, was “an incredibly powerful operator,” but “San Francisco deserves a much more progressive candidate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12085913\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12085913\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/060226CHAKRABARTI_GH_007-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/060226CHAKRABARTI_GH_007-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/060226CHAKRABARTI_GH_007-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/060226CHAKRABARTI_GH_007-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Congressional candidate Saikat Chakrabarti addresses supporters during an election night event at The Chapel on June 3, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the party, supervisors Matt Dorsey and Myrna Melgar appeared, along with recalled former supervisor Joel Engardio, Assemblywoman Catherine Stephanie and Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener, a more moderate candidate than his two main challengers, held a commanding lead in the race as of Wednesday. Chan, a progressive Democrat who earned an endorsement from Pelosi, came in second with about 29% of the vote. Saikat Chakrabarti carried around 15% of the initial vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A wealthy former software engineer, Chakrabarti has a small political footprint in San Francisco compared to his opponents. Throughout his largely self-funded campaign, which Chakrabarti put nearly $10 million of his own money toward, the Houston-born candidate often referred to his political experience working as a co-founder of Justice Democrats and previous chief of staff to New York Rep. 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A gay man with deep ties to the city’s LGBTQ+ community, Wiener has also fought for legislation to protect trans youth, some of which he’s faced backlash for, particularly from MAGA Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chan, a later entrant to the race, touted her community-based work in the city and promised to fight against corporate interests. Her campaign raised only a fraction of what her opponents pulled in, but she received the coveted Pelosi endorsement, which may have given her a primary boost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to show you what working people’s power looks like,” Chan said during an upbeat election watch party at El Rio in the Mission District. “The work is not done yet. 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We don’t have sidewalks. We don’t have lights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m an Angeleno who said ‘Enough is enough,’” Pratt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bass has acknowledged that her time in office has been bumpy but pointed to reductions in homelessness and a historically low homicide rate in the nation’s second most populous city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Running behind Bass and Pratt was Nithya Raman, a former ally of the mayor and a progressive city council member elected with support from the Democratic Socialists of America. A Democrat, Raman campaigned on promises to reduce inequality, revive the slumping entertainment industry and build more housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political observers said a November runoff would be likely with 14 names on the ballot, including tech entrepreneur Adam Miller and community activist Rae Huang.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Bass defends her record\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Pratt’s candidacy drew national attention as a barometer for dissatisfaction with liberal urban governance and because of viral videos that supporters created with artificial intelligence.\u003cbr>\nBass lined up most of the Democratic establishment behind her, including former Vice President Kamala Harris, Gov. 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Bass made a swing through the heavily Hispanic Boyle Heights neighborhood, where she recalled federal immigration raids in which she said Pratt and Raman were “nowhere to be found.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In online posts before polls closed, Pratt said the contest had become a two-person race between him and Bass and said a vote for either Raman or Miller would be wasted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At this point, it’s me and Karen,” Pratt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voter Jose Rivera said he backed Bass because she deserves a second term to deliver on her promises: “She’s done a pretty good job in my opinion overall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another, Leo Blain, said he was drawn to Raman’s progressive agenda and believes she can be effective at building coalitions in the diverse city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think she has a really good understanding about how the city of LA works and would be a really effective mayor,” Blain said outside his polling place.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Los Angeles faces questions about its future\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The race unfolded at an unsettled time for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor is still trying to overcome fallout from her absence when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/eaton-fire\">the most destructive wildfire\u003c/a> in Los Angeles history ignited in a wealthy seaside neighborhood in January 2025. Bass was on a trip to Ghana as part of a presidential delegation. Pratt lost his home in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/palisades-fire\">the Palisades Fire\u003c/a>, which killed 12 people. And some say the recovery is happening too slowly.[aside label=\"From the 2026 Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/california/governor,Learn about the California Governor Election' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2026/04/Aside-California-Governor-2026-Primary-Election-1200x1200@2x.png]While statistics suggest that Bass has made headway on homelessness, makeshift encampments and rows of rusting RVs remain commonplace across the city. Complaints about the rising cost of living — whether for rent, taxes or groceries — are a constant refrain. Dirty, pocked streets and sidewalks abound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile Hollywood jobs have been decamping for years to more affordable filming locales. Trump administration immigration raids also shook the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Population in the once-booming region is falling — Los Angeles County lost about 54,000 people from July 2024 to July 2025, the largest numeric population drop in the nation, according to federal figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crime statistics are down, but public safety is still an issue. World Cup games begin in Southern California in June, and Los Angeles is readying to host the 2028 Olympics. The federal government spearheads security at the Olympics, but there are already concerns that the Los Angeles Police Department will not have adequate funding or personnel to hold up its end of the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bass has acknowledged making missteps but argued that a drop in homelessness and a historically low homicide rate show she is making progress. “I’ll keep fighting for LA,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pratt has focused his campaign on reducing homelessness and boosting police ranks, arguing that an outsider is needed to shake up city hall. 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