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Who Will Become California’s Next Governor? Candidate Antonio Villaraigosa Sits Down with Your News Channel | News Channel 3-12
Mayor Karen Bass will endorse Antonio Villaraigosa, emphasizing their 50-year partnership and his coalition-building with key voter groups, including Black voters in Los Angeles.
- On Tuesday, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass plans to endorse Antonio Villaraigosa outside the Los Angeles Sentinel, a Black-owned weekly newspaper.
- The longtime allies have repeatedly endorsed one another, with Bass and Villaraigosa knowing each other for more than 50 years and Villaraigosa endorsing Bass in 2021.
- Villaraigosa emphasized his record as a former mayor and Assembly speaker, building coalitions that included the Black voters of Los Angeles and campaigning in Crenshaw / South L.A.
- The endorsement lands in a crowded field vying to replace Governor Gavin Newsom, with an Emerson College poll showing Villaraigosa polling at 5%.
- With the June 2, 2026 primary approaching, Villaraigosa urged a broad coalition to confront state challenges, emphasizing the need for wide support ahead of the top two vote-getters advancing.
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Who Will Become California’s Next Governor? Candidate Antonio Villaraigosa Sits Down with Your News Channel | News Channel 3-12
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) — In his first television ad in the governor’s race, Antonio Villaragosa promises to tackle gas prices and groceries and to veto tax increases. “We've got to make housing affordable, provide health care and educate, keep our neighborhood safe. I don't know if that's a middle position, but it's my position,” said the former Los Angeles Mayor and Speaker of the California Assembly. The goal? To make CalIfornia more aff…
Karen Bass endorses a previous LA Mayor for governor of California
Karen Bass endorses former L.A. mayor for California governor
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass' choice to be the next governor of the Golden State was revealed Tuesday. Bass told the Los Angeles Times that she will endorse Antonio Villaraigosa, a former two-term mayor of Los Angeles. “Antonio and I have known and worked together our entire adult life,” Bass said in a statement to the Times. “I have seen up close the impact he has made not just for our city but for our entire state. Our country is at a crossroa…
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