President Donald Trump offered some advice — from his own experience — to former MTV reality TV star Spencer Pratt in the wake of his loss in the Los Angeles mayoral primary election.
Trump mentioned Pratt while speaking to the Faith & Freedom Coalition on Friday, jabbing at California’s long, drawn-out ballot-counting process, which he and numerous others argue opens the doors wide for anyone with the desire to commit election fraud.
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“It’s happening in California, where the ballots still aren’t in,” Trump began. “They’re still not — can you believe it? You know what’s happened? They’re cheating. The kid won. Or he was certainly in the top two. I don’t know him, I never met him. Spencer Pratt.”
The president then advised Pratt to keep pushing back, adding, “And he went away quietly. We didn’t go away quietly. He shouldn’t go away quietly; he should protest, because it was, in my very strong opinion, a rigged election. That kid should be in the runoffs.”
Trump went on to describe how Pratt — solidly in second place when the polls closed on Election Day — had seen his lead chipped away and then eventually obliterated as mail-in ballots overwhelmingly favored Democratic Socialist City Councilwoman Nithya Raman.
“The woman who edged him out after like a long time,” Trump referenced Raman with a chuckle. “Days. Days and days. And then you’d hear reports: ‘Spencer Pratt is not doing so well’ even though he was strongly in the lead.”
Despite his loss, Pratt has promised to continue his efforts to expose the failures in the city’s leadership — beginning with incumbent Democrat Mayor Karen Bass, whom Pratt and many others blame for the disastrous response to the deadly Palisades Fire. He has also promised to continue his efforts to help clean up Los Angeles.
While Trump did not officially endorse Pratt, he spoke positively about him when asked — and Pratt, who is a registered Republican, made it clear from the beginning that his campaign was interested in results over partisanship.
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