Raman won by 43,000 votes
Nithya Raman's final margin of victory in the LA mayoral primary was approximately 43,000 votes, driven by a surge in post-election mail-in ballots.
Snapshot · All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Anthropic's Fable Backlash, Nationalizing AI, Inflation Heats Up & California's Broken Elections
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Jun 13, 2026
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California's loose election laws creating integrity doubts
At 1:23:35 · chapter starts 1:12:27
Jason wraps up, calling for DOJ investigation of the LA election results. The besties sign off with the traditional outro.
California: 23-24M ballots sent, 9.5M votes cast
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The statistical probability of the LA mayoral vote swing happening organically is one in a trillion. Not unlikely — one in a trillion. When the numbers are this impossible, the conversation isn't about whether something happened; it's about whether it was legal.
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