Overview
- The UCLA/FM3 poll released Friday shows Karen Bass at 25% support, Spencer Pratt at 11%, Nithya Raman at 9%, and 40% undecided, based on 813 likely voters with an estimated 4% margin of error.
- The survey reports a slide in Bass’s standing with voters as 49% now view her unfavorably, up from 32% a year earlier.
- Los Angeles uses a nonpartisan top-two primary on June 2, and if no one tops 50%, the leading pair advances to a November 3 runoff.
- Other recent surveys differ on the standings, with an LMU poll that omitted an undecided option showing Raman ahead, while UC Berkeley and Emerson polls found Bass leading with large pools of unsure voters.
- Campaigns are preparing ad pushes and neighborhood outreach to win over the unusually large undecided bloc in the eight weeks before the primary.