Morning Digest: Los Angeles could create one of America's most powerful offices

_{The Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, and Stephen Wolf, with additional contributions from the Daily Kos Elections team.}

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● Los Angeles, CA County Ballot: The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 on Tuesday to advance a proposed ballot measure to create what would likely be one of the most impactful elected positions in the country. Under this plan, voters would elect an executive by 2028 to lead America's most populous county, a heavily Democratic community that is larger than 40 different states.

However, plenty of obstacles remain ahead for this proposal, which would also expand the Board of Supervisors from five members to nine by 2032 and make other changes to county government. The supervisors must still vote once more next month to get the plan on the general election ballot. Supervisor Lindsey Horvath, a Democrat who co-authored the proposal, previously said this final vote would take place on Aug. 6, three days before the deadline.