Mike Bowden,

you had some responses to that, please.

I agree with what Isaac says.

I also think that there's other coalitions at work here and changing, shifting political dynamics in Los Angeles.

One of them is generational.

If you see the polling, the mayor is polling favorably with voters 64 and older, and Rahman is polling favorably with everybody younger than that.

And she is polling higher in her demographics than the mayor is in hers.

My understanding is most of her time on the council, she spent trying to bolster renters' rights and has drawn the wrath of a lot of the developers and homeowners.

So how did each candidate make overtures to those voters last night?

Well, you know, both candidates did, I think, what their campaigns wanted and delivered the lines they wanted and made the hits they wanted.

Bass's campaign wanted to say you're not ready for primetime, and they wanted to say that Rahman is not trusted by her colleagues and is unreliable and is a risk.

Raman's campaign really wanted to raise the issue of are you better off than you were four years ago? And she wanted to sort of put a more aspirational spin on her campaign and what voters are considering.

And both of them did that, and that was their way of trying to get to those undecided voters.

But what that forgets, though, is that each candidate wants to make the campaign about the other candidate, a referendum on them.

But the voters want the campaign to be about them and make it a referendum on them.

And then Bass's answer is, well, that's because it's my program that you you took advantage of.

Do you think that's an ideological switch internally or do you think that's for politics and for votes?

I think it's a little bit of a reality check that most elected officials get when they campaign in poetry and then they govern in prose.

And the window of possibility of what you can do in office is smaller than you imagine from the outside.

And so you try to make compromises and you try to make deals to get things done.

What's interesting, though, is Mayor Bass is subject of the same critique, right? Both of them are progressives of different generations from different backgrounds with sort of different priorities.

But both of them have faced criticism for moving to the center once they've been in office.

Mayor Bass is actually, you know, she was trying to avoid having a reelection against her first campaign opponent, billionaire Rick Caruso.

How do you think these two candidates are going to differentiate between each other, given that they are similar?

I guess it's just one I haven't regularly looked at, but certainly they have become more and more influential in LA politics.

Yeah.

What's interesting is a couple of them actually changed after they published.

Right.

So the the knock voter guide was recommending Reverend Ray Wong for mayor.

And then over the weekend they switched to Reverend Ray or Nithya Raman.

L.A.

That's what you want right now.