Hard Pass

As ballots continued to be tallied in a right race to lead the nation's second most populous city, L.A. City Councilmember Nithya Raman pulled ahead of incumbent Mayor Karen Bass.

Bass had taken an early lead in her race for reelection when the first ballot drops were counted Tuesday night — but it was slight, just two percentage points against an opponent who'd finished second in the primary off strong late returns.

And that gap flipped over night as around-the-clock ballot counts were announced by L.A. County election officials.

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Last Updated 11/4/26 at 3:11AM

Votes

Percent

NITHYA RAMAN

377,458

51.12%

KAREN RUTH BASS

360,864

48.88%

Source: Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk

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That we Kentuckians are trying are best. Give us time. In the meantime feel free to bully our reps, because they don't truly represent us. Source: https://apnews.com/projects/elections-2026/kentucky-us-senate-results/

is a profound repudiation of Trumpism, helped along by Trump’s unerring ability to pick truly despicable candidates from Texas’s criminal Ken Paxton to Ohio’s creep Vivek Ramaswamy to South Carolina’s inane Darline Graham.

In that it’s the end of something, and when the celebration is over, it’ll be time to remember it’s the beginning of something, of rebuilding this country in all the ways it’s been broken and corrupted. So tonight there was a finish line, and tomorrow or the day after it’ll be our starting line.

- Rebecca Solnit, author and Guardian US columnist

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Arizona voters appear all but certain excluding trans students from girls sports teams and the school bathrooms and locker rooms that reflect their gender identity.

Dubbed the “Protect Girls Sports in Arizona Act,” Proposition 318 threatens schools and athletic associations with lawsuits if they allow trans girls to join the sports teams consistent with their gender identity or let someone use a locker room, shower facility or bathroom intended to be for a person of the opposite biological sex. It is already illegal under Arizona law to permit trans girls to play on school sports teams designated for girls, but the initiative would extend that prohibition to private athletic organizations, like Little League.

Votes for Prop. 318 raced to a likely insurmountable lead of more than 200,000 votes when initial election results were released shortly after 8 p.m. Tuesday. Those votes came from early ballots that were returned prior to Election Day.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20261104050210/https://azmirror.com/2026/11/03/arizona-voters-back-prop-318-banning-trans-students-from-bathrooms-matching-their-gender/

A measure that would ban transgender athletes from competing in gendered sports, from kindergarten through college, was too close to call Tuesday night.

At midnight, 52.2% of the votes tallied were in favor of Proposition 134 and 47.8% were opposed. That was with 73% of the votes counted in Colorado. The measure needs 50% of the vote to pass and changes state law, not the state constitution, which means the legislature could rewrite or even eliminate it.

Proposition 134 would affect transgender athletes playing sports from kindergarten through college at any school or sports association that receives state funding. It requires that students assigned male at birth play only on boys teams or co-ed teams and vice versa for females.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20261104131327/https://coloradosun.com/2026/11/04/proposition-134-election-results-transgender-athletes/