of the city.



Now that he is out of the race, polls indicate that Raman will be a challenge to Bass in the November runoff. Raman is part of a wave of progressive L.A. city leaders elected since 2020. She was the first candidate backed by the Democratic Socialists of America to win public office in Los Angeles - winning more votes than any other councilmember in the city's history and beating an incumbent councilmember for the first time in nearly two decades