Nithya Raman to advance in L.A. mayoral runoff race, NBC News projects ^⁠82%

6/8/2026, 5:20:33 PM

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BS Summary: This video contains 24 faulty reasoning types, including Confirmation Bias, Ambiguity (Equivocation), and Overconfidence Bias, with Recency Bias as the most egregious example at 34.5% saturation with 142 hits. Analysis detected 1,337 faulty-reasoning hits from 411 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 73.2% and a BS Rank of ⁠82% (4,094 of 21,887 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 81.30% of the video peer group.

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We've just gotten a new amount of votes that have just come in.

I want to get over to Steve Kornacki.

He's at the big board right now.

And Steve, some big news.

We now have a first and second place in the mayor's race.

>> Yeah, there it is.

NBC's decision desk is now projecting that Nithya Raman will

finish in second place here in this Los Angeles mayoral primary.

That will advance her to the general election

where she will face incumbent Mayor Karen Bass in a one-on-one contest.

That means that Spencer Pratt will be eliminated here, will not make it to the to the runoff here.

Again, this continues time what we were talking about just a few minutes ago about this vote reporting pattern that we've seen in California and specifically in Los Angeles. How the late counted late arriving vote by mail has been so overwhelmingly democratic and particularly strong for Raman in this mayoral race.

So, if you noticed a

few minutes ago when we first when we showed you these numbers before this update, there were about 3,000 votes that were separating Pratt from Raman.

He was about 3,000 votes behind Raman.

Now you can see 207, 229. That margin is about 22,000 votes.

That last update that just came in, approximately 33,000 new votes for Nithya Raman and about 14,000 new votes for Spencer Pratt.

So, she beat him by nearly 20,000 votes in that new update.

She had a small advantage over Pratt in the vote count before that.

It's now expanded, really kind of exploded.

She leads him by almost three points here.

And again, every update we've been getting from Los Angeles since election night has been like this.

It's been overwhelmingly pro-Raman.

Pratt has sort of been left in the dust.

He did have a bit of a pad there cuz he had done well in that election day vote.

But over the last week, that pad eroded.

She passed him in the last couple days and now she is surging well ahead, far enough ahead again that our decision desk is now projecting it will be Raman, it will be Bass, that will be the runoff, no Pratt.

We thank you for watching.

And remember, stay updated on breaking news and top

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Confirmation Bias

32.6%

Anchoring Bias

10.9%

Availability Heuristic

18.7%

Representativeness Heuristic

13.6%

Hindsight Bias

1.9%

Overconfidence Bias

25.8%

Framing Effect

Loss Aversion

Status Quo Bias

6.1%

Sunk Cost Effect

Optimism Bias

1.7%

Pessimism Bias

Negativity Bias

9.2%

Self-Serving Bias

4.6%

Fundamental Attribution Error

Actor-Observer Bias

In-Group Bias

Out-Group Homogeneity Bias

Halo Effect

11.7%

Horn Effect

Dunning-Kruger Effect

Recency Bias

34.5%

Primacy Effect

Blind-Spot Bias

Ad Hominem

Straw Man

Appeal to Authority

20.9%

False Dilemma

17.5%

Slippery Slope

10%

Circular Reasoning

Hasty Generalization

17.8%

Red Herring

Bandwagon

1.7%

Appeal to Emotion

7.5%

Begging the Question

2.9%

Post Hoc (False Cause)

17.5%

Tu Quoque

Burden of Proof

6.1%

Appeal to Nature

Composition/Division

Anecdotal

12.7%

No True Scotsman

Ambiguity (Equivocation)

30.2%

Gambler’s Fallacy

Middle Ground

Personal Incredulity

Special Pleading

Genetic Fallacy

Unattributed Quote

Quote-first Misdirection

Biased Writer Voice

Indoctrination

Politically Left Leaning Bias

Politically Right Leaning Bias

Attempt to Sell a Product or Service

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Nithya Raman to advance in L.A. mayoral runoff race, NBC News projects ^⁠82%