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Nithya Raman wins LA mayoral race, becoming city’s first South Asian mayor

DSA-backed Raman will lead America's second largest city, promising action on homelessness and affordable housing.

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Urban planner and outsider who bested Karen Bass has close ties to Hollywood progressives – and a complicated relationship with the DSA Nithya Raman on Thursday unseated Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass after a neck-and-neck race for the leadership for the US’s second largest city. The young progressive’s victory means that the two largest cities in the US, as well the nation’s capital, Washington DC, have now all elect…

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Nithya Raman wins LA mayoral race, becoming city’s first South Asian mayor

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Who is Nithya Raman, the democratic socialist who will be Los Angeles’s next mayor?

Urban planner and outsider who bested Karen Bass has close ties to Hollywood progressives – and a complicated relationship with the DSA Nithya Raman on Thursday unseated Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass after a neck-and-neck race for the leadership for the US’s second largest city. The young progressive’s victory means that the two largest cities in the US, as well the nation’s capital, Washington DC, have now all elect…

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