One California race is headed to a runoff; another is still too close to call. Here are your key takeaways from Tuesday's primary elections.
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This morning, the picture is getting a bit clearer after Tuesday's primaries across the country
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starting in California, where Los Angeles appears headed for a high-profile mayoral runoff
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Incumbent Mayor Karen Bass is on track to advance to November after falling short of the 50% needed
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to win outright. And with ballots still being counted, former reality TV star Spencer Pratt
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appears to have the inside track for the second spot, holding a lead over city council member
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Nithya Raman. Bass is campaigning on experience and her efforts to rebuild Los Angeles after last
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year's wildfires. Pratt has positioned himself as a political outsider, promising change at City Hall
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Los Angeles is the creative capital of the world, where we dream and we make our dreams come true
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where our industry was leaving, but we're bringing it back. We're bringing it back
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But now I feel very confident that I'm going to continue to work hard, learn everything I need to learn, build my teams, show all the experience I'm going to surround myself with
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Because that's a concern. I'm going to build that experience around. We have five months to the best team the city could ever dream of around
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The California governor's race is still too close to call. Republican Steve Hilton holds a narrow lead in early returns
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with former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra close behind. If those standings hold, both men would advance to November
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under California's top two primary system. Billionaire Tom Steyer remains in contention as counting continues Change is coming to California Change is coming to California and it long overdue I want to just say something from my heart to every single person
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who's voted for me. We're not we're not there yet, but it's looking good
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And while I take nothing for granted, there are lots of ballots left to be counted
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It appears that we are on track to advance to November. One step closer, one step closer to the son of those hardworking immigrants
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Maria and Manuel Becerra, becoming the next governor of the great state of California
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We're going to wait till every ballot is counted. We're going to give democracy the time to work, and we know we finished really strong
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In Iowa, one of the biggest surprises of the night came in the Republican race for governor
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Trump-backed Congressman Randy Feenstra lost to farmer and businessman Zach Lon by about one percentage point
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a margin of roughly 2,000 votes. Feenstra has conceded, and Lon will now face Democratic State Auditor Rob Sand in November
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In Iowa's open U.S. Senate race, Republican Congresswoman Ashley Hinson won the GOP nomination
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and will face Democrat Josh Turek in November. And the U.S. Supreme Court is allowing Alabama to use its current congressional map
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while legal challenges continue. A lower court recently found the map discriminated against black voters
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The Supreme Court's order means it will remain in place for now
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