BREAKING: Eric Garcetti’s Ghost Polling 12% Ahead of Real Candidates in Latest LA Mayor Race Polls
A bizarre glitch in a new survey has sent shockwaves through Los Angeles politics: according to the most recent batch of *LA mayor race polls*, former mayor Eric Garcetti—who left office over a year ago—is inexplicably leading with 27% of the vote. City Hall insiders are scrambling to explain the phantom surge, with some blaming a mischievous AI chatbot that scraped old news articles and spat out “Garcetti” as the default answer. The fake candidate is now trending on X alongside actual contenders, forcing the city clerk to issue a statement insisting that “only living, registered, human candidates qualify.” Meanwhile, rival campaign teams are accusing each other of secretly programming the bots to skew the polls. Reality check: Garcetti is not running, and the real race remains a dead heat between Karen Bass, Rick Caruso, and a Write-in campaign for a rival pothole.