Good morning, it’s Thursday, November 5. Expect sunny skies with highs just over 80.
1. Making sense of Raman’s surge, live on L.A. World.
Yesterday at 5 p.m., just after the latest L.A. County ballot drop, we went live from L.A. Material headquarters for a special election edition of our podcast L.A. World. We may not have a dynamic, interactive map a la Steve Kornacki or a shifting needle a la Nate Cohn. Still, we did spend some time fastening laminated maps of L.A.’s council districts to the walls behind us to add a visual element to our livestream interpreting the results of our city’s elections.
I was joined by editorial director Julia Wick and senior reporter Matt Hamilton, neither of whom had slept much, to make sense of this stunning moment in Los Angeles politics as Councilmember Nithya Raman continues to widen her lead over Mayor Karen Bass and looks poised to be Los Angeles’ next mayor.
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