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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass advances to run-off in race to run California's biggest city

candidates advance. With nearly half the votes counted on Tuesday night, Bass had 36.5%, Pratt 29.5% and Raman 21%. If Bass wins the contest in November, it will be her second and final term

‘Our democracy is run by two private clubs’: can a pro-hunting Democrat lead a blue wave in Iowa?

gubernatorial election from “leans Republican” to “toss up”, a change Iowa’s Republican party chair, Jeff Kaufmann, blasted on social media as “lazy, naïve” and reliant on internal polling from the Sand campaign. For Democrats

A billionaire, a taco, reality TV: the top 4 attack lines in California’s elections

gubernatorial and mayoral races have taken a fiery turn as candidates undergo last-ditch efforts to convince voters of their governance chops. The governor’s race, which was thrown for a loop after Democratic frontrunner

Brad Raffensperger navigates his party’s MAGA reality

Gubernatorial candidates Rick Jackson, left, and Burt Jones interact at the Atlanta Press Club Loudermilk-Young Republican primary election debate in Atlanta, on April 27, 2026.](https://static.politico.com/ea/0e/101914364b20987451fbb8005e62/ap26117819010583-edit.jpg) Even if the secretary of state