Spencer Pratt, best known for "starring" in a crappy "reality" TV show called The Hills, has been eliminated from the Los Angeles mayoral primary. He was running as a Republican and endorsed by Trump. He initially started out in second place when the votes started being counted. Republicans have demonized mail-in voting (which is the predominant voting system in most Western states), and tend to vote the same day; mail-in ballots tend to heavily favor Democrats. As a result, the "red mirage" kicked in and he got passed up by Nithya Raman, who will now advance to the general election in November against incumbent Karen Bass.
Predictably, there have been cries of election fraud from Trump and from people in the South, as always happens when a Republican loses an election. Pratt himself has also cried election fraud, following Trump's playbook downo to the letter.
I am no fan of Karen Bass, but Spencer Pratt has done absolutely nothing with his life other than starring in absolute bottom-of-the-barrel TV sewage. He did make $10 million from that, only for him and his wife, Heidi Montag, to blow it all on crystals (he's into all the crystal BS), Birkin bags (very expensive; some Birkin bags cost more than my house did), and $4000 bottles of wine, and he and Heidi ended up having to live rent-free in one of his parents' beach houses. They've mostly continued the reality TV/social media influencer grift since then (I think Heidi is the breadwinner in that situation), along with selling crystals (lol). He lost his home in the Palisades fire last year (uninsured).
Personally, I am sick of these idiotic TV talking heads thinking they can run cities, states, the country. The leading Republican candidate in the gubernatorial election is a former Fox News commentator, Steve Hilton, who originally came from the U.K. He was actually leading for awhile until the red mirage effect kicked in and pushed Becerra ahead of Hilton. Unfortunately, he's still too far ahead of the third-place candidate, Democrat Tom Steyer, so he will advance to the general election against Becerra (where he will lose, as the total votes favor Democrats heavily). If people like Hilton and Pratt are the best the Republicans can come up with, it's no wonder they're struggling in California.
California has a "jungle" primary system where all candidates are on the ballot regardless of party. The top two candidates advance to the general election, unless one candidate gets 50 percent of the vote, in which case it's a done deal. Since the primaries are non-partisan, this can potentially lead to a situation of two Democrats or two Republicans facing each other in the general election. The L.A. general election in November will be two Democrats. Bass and Raman. And I'm pretty sure that Bass, who is deeply unpopular due to the handling of the Palisades fire, would rather have faced off against Pratt than Raman in November.
So the DOJ is going to get involved, because God forbid, Los Angeles doesn't want some reality TV idiot for a mayor, and again, I am no fan of Bass.
Last edited by SanAndreasX - on 08 June 2026
