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Karen Bass needs to make the case — before it’s too late

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The latest poll in the LA mayor’s race is brutal for incumbent Karen Bass. If she doesn’t start making her case now, she will lose — and the socialist “red wave” will come to LA.

The UC Berkeley/LA Times poll has socialist challenger Nithya Raman eleven points ahead of Bass, 39% to 28%.

Bass can take little comfort in the fact that 33% of the voters in the poll were undecided, or that other polls show a closer race.

She knows she is in trouble.

There has been a major shift in momentum since the “jungle primary” vote in June.

Raman came from behind to pass Spencer Pratt, surprising many people — especially since Pratt had been so dominant in social media and at the debate.

Then, at the end of July, the new numbers for LA’s homeless count were released.

That was the real game-changer.

Instead of declining, as they had done for the previous two years, the number of homeless people actually rose over the last year.

That was a massive blow to........

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