LOS ANGELES — With less than a week until the Los Angeles mayoral primary, Rick Caruso's political evolution from Republican to Democrat still remains opaque to many voters in the overwhelmingly liberal city he hopes to lead.
It's widely known that Caruso, who was a Republican for much of his life, switched his party registration to decline to state in 2011 while mulling over a run in the city's 2013 mayoral election. It's also widely known that Caruso changed his party affiliation to Democratic in late January of this year, less than a month before filing to run in the 2022 mayoral election.
Less attention has been paid to the fact that Caruso re-registered as a Republican in March 2016, according to records from the Los Angeles County registrar-recorder/county clerk's office. Caruso kept his Republican Party affiliation until mid-November 2019, when he changed his registration back to "no party preference," according to county records.
