Candidates for LA mayor and California governor make final push ahead of crucial Election Day

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Election Day is almost here and some big-name candidates are spending their final hours in Southern California, attempting to resonate with undecided voters.

The candidates for Los Angeles mayor and California governor all have their own strategies in this final push, whether it be going on social media or sitting down with college students, or even asking a member of their own party to drop out at the last second.

"My final message to voters is, in the last few years, we brought down homeless for the first time, 2 years in a row -- 42,000 units of housing. Crime rate is down to a 60 year low," L.A. Mayor Karen Bass said.

Bass is still leading in the latest polls, followed closely by reality TV personality Spencer Pratt and L.A. City Councilmember Nithya Raman, who spent the weekend visiting small businesses downtown.

"I am very interested and excited to focus on lifting up small business and making sure restaurants like these, and neighborhoods like these, get the support they need from city hall -- both in homelessness response, but also in small business support to ensure restaurants can open and stay open," Raman said.

Pratt, whose unconventional campaign has surged with support, went live on the Citizen app asking the public to report issues like potholes and non-working street lights, through the app, so everyone can see who is responding to community problems.

"We need records of our city officials failing us, or, if a city official is incredible and they fix the street and they get the lights working, they clear out the homeless, naked, drug addict encampments away from schools, then they should be rewarded," Pratt said.

In the equally close governor's race, where the top two vote getters advance regardless of party, Republican Steve Hilton has publicly asked fellow Republican Sheriff Chad Bianco to drop out of the race in order to consolidate conservative support behind Hilton.

"We are done with the Democrats. We're going to wipe the floor with these people in November," Hilton said.

If Hilton finishes third, it will likely be the two other frontrunners, Democrats Xavier Becerra and Tom Steyer. Both are pushing affordability in their race to advance to a November runoff.

"I will march California toward universal coverage for healthcare for our families," Becerra said.

"There's someone who's trying to represent working people and families across California, and that's me. I'm the only person taking on the corporations, I'm the only person talking about improving our education system, I'm the only person who's talking about healthcare as a a right," Steyer said.

Typically, you don't see a huge turnout for a non-presidential election, but there's a lot of attention on both the mayoral and gubernatorial races. So it would not be a surprise if there's a big or even record turnout for this primary.

Eyewitness News found out from the California Secretary of State that as of this last weekend, 23.15 million Californians are registered to vote -- that's the highest in state history.