The top two candidates in this primary will advance to the general election in November, regardless of party affiliation. Most Californians vote by mail, and ballo

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CBS News projects that incumbent Mayor Karen Bass will advance to the November election, while her opponents, Councilmember Nithya Raman and political newcomer Spencer Pratt, compete for the final spot.

What was unusual was that Trump announced that his Department of Justice was investigating the count: “Why the vote counting DELAY???,” the president posted on his social media account. He suggested that the state’s Democrats were somehow cheating so two candidates he favors — Republican Steve Hilton in the governor’s race and Spencer Pratt in the nonpartisan mayor’s race — would be bumped from the top two slots and therefore ineligible for the November general election.

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Los Angeles County election officials on Sunday warned against election interference after several mail-in ballots were burned and a voting center was vandalized, two days before voters cast their ballots in the California primary.

Dean Logan, The Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, gave an afternoon Election Day update and said just before 2 p.m., more than 100,000 voters turned up to vote in person, and nearly 1 million vote-by-mail ballots had been returned through various methods.

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