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Posted on 06/10/2026 4:47:29 AM PDT by Lizavetta
Spencer Pratt’s LA mayoral bid surged on Election Day, only to be reversed as California’s entrenched political machine reshaped the final count after the vote.
Bill de Blasio appeared on NewsNation on June 2 and was asked to comment on Spencer Pratt’s campaign. De Blasio smugly described Pratt’s ads as “inappropriate” and wondered, “Who is behind them?”
If de Blasio hadn’t actively participated in the decline of New York City during his disastrous eight years as its mayor, his arrogance might just be dismissed as unwarranted and clueless. But de Blasio is part of a machine that profits from urban decline. Behind his arrogance is a grasping, cynical hypocrite delighted that the machine on the West Coast is as potent as the one that elevated his own mayoral tenure and now supports Zohran Mamdani.
And so way out west, the machine has struck again. In the run-up to California’s June 2 primary, Spencer Pratt, running for mayor of Los Angeles, gave us a moment of hope. But as it turns out, he will not appear on the November ballot. Angelenos will choose between a democratic socialist extremist in the form of Nithya Raman and the “moderate” option, the ex-communist, incompetent incumbent, Karen Bass.
Calling Spencer Pratt’s ads “inappropriate” is a grotesque inversion of truth. Policy failures in Los Angeles have been so intellectualized and contextualized that only crude descriptions of reality on the streets of that beleaguered city had any chance to wake voters up from their brainwashed acquiescence.
Moreover, Pratt’s ads have heralded a new era in campaign messaging. His campaign was pitch-perfect and inspired. It wasn’t merely the use of AI to produce videos at negligible cost, videos that altogether would have cost millions only a few years ago. It was the extraordinary creativity of these videos and their uncanny ability to cut to the heart of issues that by now should have every resident of Los Angeles marching on City Hall with torches and pitchforks.
A few examples should suffice. Have a look at these:
“Entering the illusion,” where two parents confront a child, telling him that “Pratt is MAGA,” wherein the child asks why getting homeless drug addicts help and rebuilding homes is MAGA.
“Catching the Pratt,” where a mother wheels her young adult daughter into the emergency room because she is “thinking for herself,” wanting to “stop addicts from injecting drugs around kids,” etc.
“You are not alone,” where a group of women in a yoga studio realize, to their astonishment, that all of them secretly support Pratt’s candidacy.
“What Spencer Pratt Has in Mind for LA,” a satirical anti-Pratt ad where, for example, a father and daughter chastise Pratt for wanting change “when everything is fine,” while speaking against a backdrop of homes in flames.
And the classic “LA is worth saving,” depicting, among other things, Karen Bass and assorted prominent Democrats dressed in Louis XIV’s Baroque attire, swigging champagne and eating cake, while laughing derisively at a mother trying to protect her children from LA’s dangerous streets.
This was a brilliant campaign. It gave Pratt, who lost his own home in the January 2025 wildfires, instant momentum. So much so, in fact, that his opponents were worried enough to see to it that a second mayoral debate was canceled. And on the day after the election, Pratt had reason for optimism. Early returns reported, “With 63 percent of the votes counted by early Wednesday morning, Bass had 35 percent, Pratt 30 percent, and Raman 22 percent.” Pratt had an 8 percent advantage over Raman. So far, so good.
That was before what members of the machine dismiss as the “red mirage” began to dissipate. It didn’t take long. By Thursday afternoon, Pratt’s lead over third-place Raman had shrunk to 33,076, i.e., from an 8.0 percent advantage to 6.0 percent.
By Friday, the trend was unmistakable. Pratt’s lead was down to 20,672, only a 3.3 percent edge. After the Saturday update, the Los Angeles Times, whose veteran reporters knew better, published an article, “Pratt holds off Raman for now,” as if his lead over Raman, by then down to 7,494 votes or 1.1 percent, left any possibility he would stay in front.
Sunday’s update made it official. Pratt was behind Raman by 4,381 votes. With weeks of counting still ahead, the chances that Pratt will recover his lead are zero. Why? What is the nature of this machine that delivers a red mirage on election night, invariably blown away by a blue wind? How is this possible?
And here it is that accusations of fraud are almost irrelevant. Yes, California’s election laws make voter fraud possible, even easy. With poorly maintained voter rolls, 29 days of “early voting,” provisional ballots, same-day voter registration, automatic motor-voter registration, universal mail-in ballots, a seven-day post-election grace period for mailed ballots to still be counted, ballot harvesting, and county elections offices under oversight by Democrat politicians and staffed by Democrat-leaning bureaucrats, there are means, motives, and opportunities for fraud.
But these laws governing elections in California are tools—all of them completely legal—that turbocharge California’s ruling political machine. To rig an election in California, fraud isn’t necessary. To focus on fraud, without also critiquing the system itself, is a fruitless distraction.
There is a reason that ballot counts in the days after the election skewed two-to-one in favor of Raman, when Pratt led Raman by 8 percent in the early returns, and it doesn’t require fraud. What happens in elections in California today, as noted political observer Chris Rufo stated in a recent interview, is “no less nefarious but much more sophisticated.”
Rufo goes on to describe how California’s system works. “Institutions that have large ground games: unions, DSA, activist groups, homeless shelters—all of these people within the liberal NGO Borg—to go chase ballots, harvest ballots, solicit, and grab all of these ballots, which are technically legal in a way that the opposition cannot do.”
This is what happened to Pratt. This is what dissolved his red mirage. A political machine of extraordinary reach dispatched its operatives to every precinct in the City of Los Angeles wherever voters could be found who were low-information, dependent on government assistance, innately conditioned to oppose a Republican, inclined to have a Pavlovian aversion to any candidate tagged with a “MAGA” affiliation, or unlikely to vote without active assistance, or some combination of all of the above. These votes for Raman were the result of selective vote harvesting from precisely targeted groups.
This is why GOP candidates lose in California. If a race is close, it isn’t enough to wage a brilliant campaign. The endgame is rigged in favor of the party that can field a permanent army to exploit California’s current election laws. That army is populated by operatives from public sector unions that are overwhelmingly partisan Democrats, along with thousands of workers at partisan NGOs. This perennial political machine is fed by taxpayers and tax deductions; the election work they do is often technically “nonpartisan,” and the public programs they provide when they are not harvesting votes are “social welfare” programs that get more funding from failure than from success.
This is California’s self-reinforcing cycle of political dysfunction. Spencer Pratt tried to disrupt the system, and his surge in the polls surprised a lot of people.
But the machine won. Again.
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Wont do.
Question of the day: Why does LA/CA need illegals to vote when they can just manufacture votes as needed? /s
It’s funny how this great nation has the most fraudulent elections on earth. If our elections are a lie; then, isn’t it all a lie?
All that matters is that they buried him. The how-they-did-it part is meaningless because nothing will change.
Is anyone here truly surprised by this, the dims will not go quietly into that good night.
There is no limit to “the ends justify the means” for the left and the deep state.
“Calling Spencer PrattâÂÂs ads âÂÂinappropriateâ is a grotesque inversion of truth. Policy failures in Los Angeles have been so intellectualized and contextualized that only crude descriptions of reality on the streets of that beleaguered city had any chance to wake voters up from their brainwashed acquiescence.”
I like this part.
> There is no limit to “the ends justify the means” for the left and the deep state. <
That’s an important observation. It’s not 1950 anymore. The mainstream media has united with the Democrat Party to demonize Republicans.
Republicans are now more than just wrong. Republicans are now evil. And evil can be combated by any means necessary.
Too many Republican leaders are blind to this. So they do nothing.
There have been many regimes throughout history that have passed laws that make the regimes actions “legal.”
Let’s stop pretending what California is doing is legal. It isn’t. Fraud can’t be legalized away as pertains to voting and elections. That type of “election” is called a plebiscite.
“Pratt was a victim of the machine and OH BY THE WAY, the machine used all these “legal” tools that are ripe for fraud.” Oh, ok, so the article complains about the “machine” but sweeps fraud under the rug by calling it legal?!?
Why wouldn’t “the machine” use all the lubricant (fraud) that it can to keep functioning? Why even bother voting? Why even bother running a candidate?
The result of all this is the death spiral for all of our cities.
Right. Legal Cheating. Or California Cheating. Or Newscum Cheating.
Somebody help me understand why they let Pratt have lead at any time in the process. Why didn’t they just get all these Nithya “votes” in at the outset?
California elections are clown shows. However, there was no way he was going to win even if it was 100% accurate voting. He may have made it to the run off, but would have been crushed in November.
I have to go to LA fairly often. The Democrat party is their state religion. Most independent and conservative voters left the city of LA and LA County long ago.
It’s only going to get more and more lopsided as people vote with their feet by leaving. Eventually it is only Democrats competing with other Democrats.
Marking….
It’s your funeral, LA.
A new standard was set when Democrats got away with stealing the 2020 presidential election without repercussions.
It is now the expected norm that democrats will freely steal any election they please while the republican elites pretend it isn't happening.
The Democratic Party defines “fair election” as “everybody voting”. The more votes, the better, the more just, the election.
The voting laws in NY, MD, IL, NJ, and CA reflect those beliefs.
If you believe that people with no ideas about the issues at stake, who have no opinions about policy, and who don’t know or care who the candidates are should have the same voice as you do, you will think this is a bad system. Maybe even immoral.
But it’s not illegal.
I said the same the other day and was told that Californians were going to fight back after Pratt was cheated. That was after I posted that I figured nothing would be done about it and life would return to the same old same old.
And so it has.
The GOP there does not have the cards as Trump would say.
I give kudos to Pratt for some great effort and ads.
I don’t know why this article is being written. “The machine buried Spencer Pratt. The Dem machine won again.” Of course it did. Are we supposed to be surprised? Are we supposed to be outraged? The people of LA want to live in this filth, chaos, crime and corruption. Let them. Are there good people who live in LA who voted against it? Yes. They need to get the Hell out.
I had an aunt who lived in Detroit her entire life. She lived there from the 1920s until the 1990s. Everyone told her to leave in the 1980s but she refused to do so. Until she got mugged several times in her 70s. At one point, she was tied up and her house was robbed. She was lucky she wasn’t killed. She finally left Detroit. I don’t care how long you lived in LA. Its time to leave and let it rot.
Yep.
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