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Your Guide To The LA County District Attorney's Race
The candidates for L.A. County District Attorney: Former San Francisco DA George Gascon (L), incumbent DA Jackie Lacey (C) and former federal public defender Rachel Rossi. (Photo credits, L-R: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images; Damian Dovarganes/AP; Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Patrisse Cullors)
The presidential primary is not the only big race on your March 3 ballot.
The campaign for Los Angeles County District Attorney has huge implications for a nationwide criminal justice reform movement.
Incumbent DA Jackie Lacey is trying to fend off two challengers: former San Francisco DA George Gascón and former federal public defender Rachel Rossi.
Gascón and Rossi are running as reformers who will end what they characterize as Lacey's business-as-usual approach to the country's largest prosecutor's office.
Lacey says she's the only qualified candidate and that she's focused on a DA's most important constituency: the victims of crime.
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