As the Los Angeles mayoral results continue to trickle in, U.S. Rep. Karen Bass was closing in on businessman Rick Caruso’s thin lead in the bid to replace termed-out Eric Garcetti.
On the evening of Nov. 10, Caruso, 63, won 50.25 percent of the vote, while Bass held 49.75 percent, according to the county clerk’s office.
The race, which was already close prior to the Nov. 8 deadline to cast ballots, narrowed when Caruso’s lead fell from a 12,282 difference in votes to just 2,695.
“As predicted, this is a close race. There are hundreds of thousands of votes to count and as expected we are going to see different results each time. I continue to be cautiously optimistic about these numbers and look forward to the next series of results in the coming weeks,” Caruso wrote on Twitter on Nov. 10….