Jireh Deng, LA Public Press

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The video introducing Rae Huang’s candidacy for mayor of Los Angeles evokes arthouse cinema in dry tungsten hues. It opens with jump cuts between frustrated Angelenos honking their cars, caught in the gridlock of rush hour traffic. Huang, a bespectacled Asian-American woman, steps out of her car, onto the sidewalk and turns to the camera. “LA is stuck,” the 43-year-old declares. “I’m running to make Los Angeles affordable and healthy.”

The Hollywood-esque trailer is how Huang, a single mother of two and affordable

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