Allie Beth Stuckey

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One of the things that's been going on in the last several days is the mayoral race in Los Angeles.

And the current mayor there, Karen Bass, and she had two main contenders, Stephen Pratt

and Neetha Raymond.

And the actual election day was a week or two ago, but it takes California seven, eight days to count votes, which is really crazy.

The latest and what they are calling the final says that Nithya Ramon has overtaken Spencer Pratt in the race for second place in the mayor race so that she'll be in the runoff along with Karen Bass.

Now, it's really interesting that this happened because on election night, because Pratt was so far ahead of her and about eight or nine points ahead of her, which is a lot in an election race,

Nathia Ramon broke down in tears addressing her supporters because she was in third place and wouldn't be in the runoff.

Here's what she said on election night.

So she realized that overcoming a deficit like that would be almost impossible.

As a matter of fact, I'll tell you a personal story.

The last political race that I ran, my district had kind of turned purple.

And it was a race when Beto O'Rourke, if you remember Beto, he ran for Senate against Ted Cruz.

Ted Cruz was the sitting senator, who still is.

And Beto generated a lot of excitement among young voters and Democrat voters and what we call general election voters, voters that didn't vote in the primary but vote in the general election.

And on election night, we thought we were in good shape.

In fact, the polling that we had done just before when the election process started, we were up seven or eight points.