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Mark.b2

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1. Some races need to stay local and don't need to be "nationalized"...
Sat May 30, 2026, 11:40 PM
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or idealogical. Sometimes, it needs to be about pot holes, sidewalk filth, bureaucratic friction, etc.

I don’t see him winning, though. It’ll be a low turnout election. And by the time you take city employees and their kith and kin voting in block for the status quo, they’ll far outnumber the newly engaged Pratt voters.

The majority doesnt want someone new on the political scene. See Donal J. Trump.

I expect the media to call the race pretty early.

The only unknown is whether Mayor Bass get enough votes to avoid the run off. And if she doesn’t, it wouldn’t surprise me to see Raman decline to push forward.

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