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Posted on 02/09/2026 3:29:11 AM PST by DFG
Democratic Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman, an avowed socialist, announced Saturday she will challenge her longtime ally, Democratic Mayor Karen Bass, who seeks reelection in June.
Raman, an Indian immigrant, has served on the City Council since 2020 after — with backing from the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) — she defeated an incumbent councilmember in the Democratic primary. Bass, a former congresswoman, has served as Los Angeles’s mayor since 2022. She recently came under scrutiny for her response to both the riots against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in mid-2025 and the devastating wildfire which engulfed the city’s Pacific Palisades neighborhood in January of that year.
Raman entered the race just hours before Saturday’s 12:00 p.m. PST filing deadline.
She told the Los Angeles Times in an interview published Saturday she has “deep respect” for the incumbent left-wing mayor whom she called an “icon” and noted she has “significant alignment” with on some issues.
“But over the last few months in particular, I’ve really begun to feel like unless we have some big changes in how we do things in Los Angeles, that the things we count on are not going to function anymore,” Raman told the outlet.
The newly declared candidate also said the city she is running to lead is “at a breaking point,” and that “people feel it in the most basic ways,” The New York Times reported.
Both Raman’s and Bass’s offices did not immediately respond to requests for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Raman notably chairs the Housing and Homelessness Committee on the City Council, as Los Angeles grapples with a notorious homelessness crisis which has intensified during Bass’s term.
Los Angeles will hold its mayoral election June 2, and if no candidate receives a simple majority of the vote, a runoff election will take place in November — the same time as the 2026 general elections for Congress and California governor. The runoff would feature the two top finishers of the June election regardless of party affiliation.
With the filing deadline having passed, the mayoral field is set with the three most well-known candidates in the race being Bass, Raman, and Spencer Pratt, a former star of the reality TV show “The Hills” who lost his home in the Palisades Fire. Pratt, a registered Republican, faces an uphill climb to win election in the deep blue city.
While Raman is not the only socialist candidate in the race, she is the most well known. Rae Huang, a pastor and DSA member, is also mounting a longshot bid to unseat Bass.
Former Democratic Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Superintendent Austin Beutner was also running for mayor but dropped out of the race after his daughter tragically passed away at the age of 22.
Billionaire businessman Rick Caruso, a Democrat who lost in the 2022 runoff election to Bass, announced he would not seek a rematch against her just two days before the Saturday filing deadline.
In the past year, many socialists have run to lead major cities, mainly as registered Democrats. While some have been successful, such as Democratic New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Democratic Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson, others, such as Democratic Minnesota State Sen. Omar Fateh, have come up short.
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Democrats think they have achieved critical mass.
Forward the revolution.
What’s going on with all these Socialists (read: commies) crawling out of the woodwork and running (and sometimes winning) for public office?
There was a time in American history when we had the guts to put these vile traitors in jail.
What’s happening to us?
This is good. The far left commie wackos are in the process of trying to prove that Socialism/Commumnism has never worked ANYWHERE and it ISN’T GOING TO WORK HERE IN AMERICA EITHER. As soon as we can shut off the free money and free stuff the RATS are giving to the freeloading, POS illegal aliens already being funded with taxpayer dollars by the Party of Death DemonRATS, their dream of a Communist utopia funded by dollars stolen from U.S. taxpayers, will come to an end. The commie scum will learn that the DemonRAT Party is the party of death to America.
We-including conservatives-spent at least fifty years letting our public education system instill varying degrees of Marxism into our kids while whistling past the graveyard and telling ourselves they’d grow out of it.
When will American businesses wake up, and move out of US socialist cities and states?
It cannot end well for any business that remains in such places.
We allowed the young to be indoctrinated in schools, universities, by corporations and entertainment. Now their coming into their own.
Yet another foreign born Asian Indian wanting to turn the USA into Calcutta. And a smelly Dalit Thuggee at that. It’s what India (now run by Modi) has been doing for decades, exporting their undesirables to Western countries.
It is going to hit critical mass. There are way too many of them in the USA. A correction is coming.
Many churches are infiltrated as well. We’re in the time of the end of the church age. We are witnessing the rise of the antichrist spirit. Now is the time for all to make sure they’re right with God through Jesus Christ.
Is she any relation to Top Ramen? I can’t understand the obsession of dumbass voters in this country to elect low I.Q. third world turds to operate our country and our government. Must be a DEI hand job.
Corrected. I refuse to fall for their soft words anymore. These are hardcore communists getting elected into office courtesy of the domestic enemy party - formerly known as the democratic party
> As soon as we can shut off the free money and free stuff… <
That’s a key point. But I think it’s a long way off.
Democrat states will continue prop up these trash, Democrat cities. Federal funds can be cut off, but that would take bold Republicans in Congress. And there are not enough of those folks. So the can gets kicked down the road.
When the crash does come, I think it will less like the fall of the USSR, and more like the chaos of the French Revolution. Very messy.
“Socialist” of course actually means Marxist Communist in Woke-Speak.
Good luck with that LA. Think it’s bad now? Just wait.
If Angelenos would vote for this, then why did Deep State have to steal the last mayoral.
And steal it they did.
Trump is good, but we need Pinochet.
🤔 Isn’t it time to change some laws? Natural born citizens only. We have enough assclowns of our own willing to ruin this country. Imports need not apply.
Um, I think many of the leftscum know that -- and it is exactly what they want.
Nithya Raman, Karen Bass, Jacob Frey, Zohran Mamdani - D omestic ENEMIES.
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