Spencer Pratt is showing receipts after Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass repeatedly dismissed him as a “former reality TV star.”
Pratt fired back by posting a decades-old Los Angeles Times article that referenced Bass traveling to Cuba in the 1970s with the Venceremos Brigade, a communist-linked activist group that intelligence documents accused of teaching “terrorist tactics and guerrilla warfare.”
“When I was in my 20s I was on a TV show,” Pratt wrote on X. “When Karen Bass was in her 20s, she was training in terrorist tactics and guerrilla warfare with communists in Cuba. Back when the L.A. Times was still in L.A., and used to tell the truth…”
The resurfaced Los Angeles Times article from 1983 stated Bass traveled to Cuba with the “6th Contingent of the Venceremos Brigade.”
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When I was in my 20’s I was on a TV show. When Karen Bass was in her 20’s, she was training in terrorist tactics and guerrilla warfare with communists in Cuba. Back when the LA Times was still in LA, and used to tell the truth… <a href="https://t.co/ISrTcfVRv9">pic.twitter.com/ISrTcfVRv9</a>
— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) <a href="https://x.com/spencerpratt/status/2059832576739869072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 28, 2026</a></blockquote>
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According to the report, a 1973 intelligence document described the brigade as a group that “trains revolutionary-prone Americans in terrorist tactics and guerrilla warfare while claiming to harvest sugar cane.”
The article also stated Bass, who was described as a brigade leader, “returned from Cuba to the U.S.A. bringing back propaganda literature,” though the report noted the document did not cite the source of that information.
Bass denied wrongdoing at the time and reportedly said her trips to Cuba were educational and “had nothing to do with terrorism.”
Pratt’s post quickly spread across social media, especially in conservative circles where critics accused Bass and her allies of trying to reduce Pratt to a punchline while treating Bass’ own political history with far more caution.
Pratt’s attacks on Bass have escalated since California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom endorsed her. During an appearance on Fox News’ “Saturday in America,” Pratt accused Bass and Newsom of failing Californians while billions were spent on homelessness programs.
“It’s not shocking because they’re alleged criminal partners,” Pratt said. “They’re both complicit in laundering $24 billion to actually increase homelessness.”
Pratt also argued that Los Angeles residents can clearly see conditions worsening despite years of spending and promises from state leaders.
“Anybody with eyeballs in the state of California or Los Angeles knows that there has not been a reduction in one homeless person,” Pratt said. “Actually there’s been an increase of naked drug addict zombies in front of every kid’s playground, every kid’s school, every coffee shop.”
The exchange marks the latest escalation in the increasingly personal political fight between Bass and Pratt as the Los Angeles mayoral race continues heating up.

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A now-deleted two-word social media post from Heidi Montag gained attention over the weekend as her husband Spencer Pratt’s upstart Los Angeles mayoral campaign picks up momentum. 
Montag, a reality TV star, posted the words “wake up” on Saturday before later deleting the post for an unknown reason. The post was viewed over 188,000 times and was liked over 9,500 times, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/05/17/us-news/heidi-montags-simple-tweet-explodes-as-husband-spencer-pratt-continues-campaign-for-mayor/">reported</a>. 
On Monday, Montag shared another two-word message, this time <a href="https://x.com/heidimontag/status/2056550442826629549">writing</a> “last call.” Pratt is set to face off against L.A. Mayor Karen Bass and far-Left Councilwoman Nithya Raman in the June 2 mayoral primary.
After one commenter wrote “God bless you and Spencer!” and that he was praying for their “victory,” Montag replied with a praying emoji. 
Pratt’s campaign has built a massive presence online and his campaign videos repeatedly excoriating the city’s leadership receive millions of views. 
A video posted by his campaign on Monday <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/spencer-pratt-ad-channels-90s-sitcom-royalty">channeled</a> the popular 1990s sitcom &#8220;The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air&#8221; and blamed Mayor Bass’ leadership for his house burning down in the Pacific Palisades wildfires last year. That video was viewed over 3.6 million times and had 78,000 likes. 
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Now this is a story all about how my life got flipped, turned upside down <a href="https://t.co/Zes4VRdZxX">pic.twitter.com/Zes4VRdZxX</a>
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The video also appeared to be a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hit-piece-against-spencer-pratt-backfires-miserably?author=Amanda+Harding&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Hit+Piece+Against+Spencer+Pratt+Backfires+Miserably">response</a> to a hit piece by TMZ criticizing Pratt for staying at the “swanky Hotel Bel-Air” instead of the Airstream trailer parked on his burned-out property. 
“I don’t live at the Hotel Bel-Air. I don’t live in the Airstream. I don’t live in Santa Barbara. I don’t have a house. They burned it down,” Pratt said in response to the TMZ article. 
On Monday, Pratt repeated his accusations that Bass’s incompetence led to the destruction of his home. 
“Karen Bass is the worst leader I’ve ever seen. Nobody knew she was out of the country during the Palisades Fire. Nobody could order air tankers because her deputy mayor was under house arrest. Her LADWP chief didn’t know our reservoir was empty,” Pratt <a href="https://x.com/spencerpratt/status/2056469553690099737">posted</a> on Monday. “Karen Bass is running an absolute CLOWN SHOW. Vote like your life depends on it! Cuz it does!”

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Los Angeles mayoral candidate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-spencer-pratt-went-from-villain-to-hero">Spencer Pratt</a> has essentially run his entire campaign by saying the things that everyone is thinking but has been too afraid to say out loud — and his recent interviews are a fair indication that he plans to keep that up.
Pratt, during an interview on &#8220;The Joe Rogan Experience&#8221; last month, explained that some parents in Los Angeles often encourage their children not to look out the window as they drove to and from school, sports practices, or grocery stores. The reason? &#8220;Naked zombies&#8221; — drug addicts — wandering the streets and sometimes engaging in behaviors that parents would rather their children not see.
His comments on the issue have gone viral this week.
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&#8220;There&#8217;s parents that — when they drive to school — all across the city, this is not just one unique area, they have to have their kids in the back seat staring at an iPad and not to look out the window because meth addicts will just be having sex on the side of the street,&#8221; Pratt explained to host Joe Rogan.
&#8220;There&#8217;s just naked people everywhere now,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Naked zombies. And the DEA will tell you, 90% of these homeless people have a drug problem. We have a drug addict problem. These aren&#8217;t people that just, like, missed a paycheck and we need to get them help and get back — this is a drug problem that needs mandatory treatment, not handing people needles and pipes and saying, &#8216;Oh, here&#8217;s a million-dollar bed.&#8217; If you&#8217;re a fentanyl zombie hanging upside down, you don&#8217;t care about a million-dollar empty bed because you&#8217;re just high, you sober up, and you go get high again.&#8221;
Pratt made a similar point during a televised debate with two of his opponents — incumbent Democratic Mayor Karen Bass and Democratic socialist City Councilwoman Nithya Raman — who have argued in favor of providing more beds and voluntary treatment for the homeless.
Pointing out that the vast majority of L.A.&#8217;s homeless had drug problems, Pratt <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/reality-tv-star-spencer-pratt-obliterates-leftist-policies-in-heated-l-a-mayoral-debate">challenged Raman</a> directly and said he&#8217;d even go with her to offer aid to the homeless — but warned her that they were far more likely to attack her than to accept her help.

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Spencer Pratt Just Said What Parents Have Been Thinking About 'Naked Zombies'

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As Spencer Pratt continues on his viral campaign to become mayor of Los Angeles, he made a bold, unexpected move and created an ad for his opponent, incumbent Mayor Karen Bass.
The former reality star’s latest release depicts an “AI attack ad” that he described as “crazy desperate.” 
“Karen Bass got FOMO,” Pratt quipped in an <a href="https://x.com/spencerpratt/status/2054421241076072591">X post</a>, referring to the popular acronym that stands for “fear of missing out.”
In the AI-generated ad, people representing citizens of Los Angeles complain that “dangerous Spencer Pratt” will “destroy their way of life.”
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“I make a living giving drug needles to unhoused individuals and Spencer wants to put me out of the job,” a man in a truck complains.
“Spencer wants to force me to get treatment and turn my life around instead of dying on the streets. What kind of bully forces people to do things?” says another man as he injects himself on the street.
A mom jogging with a crying toddler while being chased by two men says, “As a busy mom, running away from crazy drug addicts in our park is the only exercise I get. Spencer wants to get rid of them. Does he want me to be fat?”
“A vote for Spencer is a vote for change,” a man with a crying girl standing in front of the burning city insists. “Why would you vote for change when everything is fine? Stay the course with Karen Bass,” he adds before turning to the crying child and saying, “Smile, dammit!”
It ends with a photo of Bass and Fidel Castro in an intimate embrace and the caption, &#8220;Don&#8217;t take the bait &#8230; stay the course with Bass!&#8221;
Just like all the others, the ad is gaining major traction on social media, with viewers encouraging Pratt to keep it up.
“These are so great; I could watch them all day,” one person <a href="https://x.com/JackTAdams45/status/2054564308420292879">said</a>. 
“I wish I lived in LA so I could vote for you,” another commenter <a href="https://x.com/MMSewSew/status/2054549224046592027">agreed</a>.
Even real ads put out by Pratt’s leftist opponents <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/see-it-leftist-ad-tries-to-make-spencer-pratt-look-bad-fails-miserably">have backfired</a>. One ad sponsored by L.A. Unions Opposed to Spencer Pratt for Mayor 2026 and the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor AFL-CIO laid out a number of things that Pratt has either supported or opposed. But this attack ad accidentally painted him as an entirely reasonable person.
“Republican Spencer Pratt is the last thing Los Angeles needs for mayor,” the voiceover began. “Pratt opposes using taxpayer money to build brand new houses for our unhoused neighbors, saying it’s time for the homeless to get help or get out. Pratt thinks L.A. needs thousands more police officers rather than more social workers.”
“And Republican Spencer Pratt thinks public employee unions should have less power, not more,” the ad continued. “L.A. is on the right track and needs to stay the course. Vote no on Republican Spencer Pratt.”
Pratt responded to the ad, saying, “Wait. Unions are mad that I want firefighters and city workers to get better pay and safer working conditions? What are they actually … for?”
Pratt is set to face incumbent Mayor Karen Bass and far-Left Councilwoman Nithya Raman in the June 2 mayoral primary.

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It feels like every day there’s a new <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/spencer-pratt-shares-raw-mothers-day-tribute-to-wife-that-hits-all-moms-right-in-the-heart">viral campaign video</a> from Los Angeles mayoral hopeful Spencer Pratt. And every day it’s hard to reconcile that this is the same slime-ball we used to despise on “The Hills.”
For just over four years — from 2006-2010 — we watched Pratt live out his mid-20s in front of an MTV camera, and the angle was typically less than flattering. Engaged at the time to his now wife Heidi Montag, Pratt appeared to manipulate and charm his way through most situations — often coming off like a used-car salesman.
In more recent interviews, Pratt has said that the &#8220;villain&#8221; persona was just that: a persona, put on almost in its entirety to drive ratings. During a Sirius XM interview with host Julia Cunningham in 2025, Pratt explained that he&#8217;d received a simple piece of advice from record producer David Foster on the set of &#8220;The Princes of Malibu.&#8221;
&#8220;He was like, ‘You need to be the Simon Cowell of reality TV,&#8217; and I didn’t even watch ‘American Idol.’ I didn’t even know who Simon Cowell was. I was like, ‘What does that mean?’ … He’s like, ‘Be the bad guy. Be the villain,'&#8221; Pratt explained.
“What [David] didn’t explain to me, though, why Simon Cowell was able to get away with what he did, is [that] it was grounded in, ‘I’m trying to tell you you’re not talented because it’s just the truth,’” Pratt continued. “The problem with me just being blunt and doing whatever producers wanted and making the game is [that] the audience doesn’t see any — there’s no, ‘He’s just telling it how it is.’ It was just like, ‘Oh, he’s a monster.&#8217;”
Still, he leaned into the persona and even marketed it, emblazoning his personal website with the tagline, &#8220;Feel free to hate on me &#8230; daily!&#8221;
And we did.
But these days, Pratt says the only people who really hate him are the socialists and the communists — most of whom are currently rallying to keep him from becoming the next mayor of Los Angeles. And the more he talks, the harder it is for even those of us who grew up seeing him as the &#8220;villain&#8221; to keep seeing him that way.
But in a way, it makes sense — we&#8217;re far from the same person we were 20 years ago, too. Fans of the show remember Spencer as being incredibly full of himself. That’s still true, but when it comes to running for office, his overinflated ego really comes in handy. Plus, he’s now a husband and a father watching his beloved town suffer the worst aspects of leftist policies. It’s far easier to be sympathetic now than when &#8220;The Hills&#8221; was first broadcast.
But then came the real wrinkle: Pratt lost his home in the deadly Palisades fire in early 2025. His mother lost the house he&#8217;d grown up in. Neighbors and friends burned to death in their beds.
Prior to the fires, Pratt hadn’t publicly expressed interest in politics — despite having earned his political science degree from USC in 2013 — and had the disaster never happened, he probably would have been content to sell crystals online forever. But the fire forced Pratt to step out of his blissful post-reality star haze, look around, and finally say what city dwellers have been thinking for years: “What the hell are we doing here?”
The Trump/Pratt comparisons are reasonable. While the former MTV drama series player doesn’t quite have the same charisma as Trump, he does have that everyman quality, a penchant for showmanship, and a willingness to say what everyone is thinking without sugarcoating it in politically correct euphemisms. 
Pratt’s ads, even the AI-generated ones that he has shared, work because they reflect the real conversations people are having about the state of the country. They tap into people’s worst fears about the future, giving a voice to what feels like common sense. It’s easy to nod along, a sense of righteous anger growing, wondering why homeless addicts are permitted to run the cities while law-abiding citizens cower in their homes. 
Instead of using polished talking points, Pratt speaks off the cuff and just says the thing out loud that no one expects him to say. You know, like Trump does.
When leftist City Council member Nithya Raman trotted out tired lines about solving homelessness, Pratt went in for the kill. 
“I will go below the Harbor Freeway tomorrow with her, and we can find some of these people she’s going to offer treatment for. She’s going to get stabbed in the neck,” he said during the debate that <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/05/07/us-news/spencer-pratts-resounding-win-at-la-mayoral-debate-revealed-in-dramatic-new-poll/">89% of viewers</a> said he won in a landslide. “These people do not want a bed. They want fentanyl or super meth.”
These ads paint Pratt as a literal superhero and far-Left politicians like Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass as the supervillains. Everyone’s favorite failed presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, even pops up because she helped make California awful, too. Pratt isn’t pretending to be some political genius, but is rather a stand-in for what would happen if you, or I, or some other regular person were suddenly dropped into office and given the chance to fix things. 
Among a crowded field of hardcore leftists, Pratt isn’t leaning into politics to make his case. Instead, he’s counting on people ignoring party lines in favor of common sense. This is the double-edged sword of living in a city that’s so far gone — he sounds a bit radical when he makes statements that, in any other city, would sound sane. 
What’s even funnier is how ads made to oppose Pratt wind up <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/see-it-leftist-ad-tries-to-make-spencer-pratt-look-bad-fails-miserably">making him look better</a>. One ad sponsored by L.A. Unions Opposed to Spencer Pratt for Mayor accused him of “[opposing] using taxpayer money to build brand new houses for our unhoused neighbors, saying it’s time for the homeless to get help or get out. Pratt thinks L.A. needs thousands more police officers rather than more social workers.”
Well, yes. And that’s why his campaign is working. Pratt responded to the ad by saying, “Wait. Unions are mad that I want firefighters and city workers to get better pay and safer working conditions? What are they actually … for?”
It’s a question being asked by Angelenos and beyond, and while the polls show that Pratt is still a long shot rather than a foregone conclusion, it’s tempting to believe that the polls are wrong.

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Pennsylvania Democratic Senator John Fetterman praised Los Angeles mayoral hopeful Spencer Pratt’s playbook on Monday and urged Democrats to move on from their barrage of anti-Trump ads.
Fetterman, who is known for his regular criticisms of the Democratic Party, told comedian Bill Maher that Pratt is running circles around Democrats when it comes to getting his message out to voters.
“He has this AI commercial as Batman. It puts Mayor Bass as the Joker, and they put Newsom as Louis XIV eating cake,” Fetterman said, praising the ad’s ability to get a convincing message across. 
“The Democratic side’s commercials are literally ‘f*ck Trump,” he said, arguing those types of ads won’t “win a national argument” in a purple state. Instead, Fetterman pointed to what he sees as a more effective approach. 
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WOW! Even Sen. John Fetterman says Spencer Pratt’s campaign ads are smarter and more relatable than Democrat messaging, blasting the left for relying on “f*ck Trump” messaging instead of actual policy. 🔥
“Democrat&#8217; campaign ads? Literally &#8216;f*ck Trump.&#8217; It just keeps cutting to… <a href="https://t.co/eyVpPGE30p">pic.twitter.com/eyVpPGE30p</a>
— Brandon Tatum (@TheOfficerTatum) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheOfficerTatum/status/2053862099538030728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2026</a></blockquote>
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AI-generated ads backing Pratt have targeted issues that concern many Los Angeles residents, such as affordability, homelessness, and safety. In one video created by filmmaker Charles Curran and shared by Pratt, the mayoral candidate is depicted as Batman, who saves the city from villains like the Joker, who was made to resemble Mayor Karen Bass. 
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LA is worth saving. Vote Spencer Pratt. <a href="https://t.co/GpQpnfsuJe">pic.twitter.com/GpQpnfsuJe</a>
— Charles Curran (@charliebcurran) <a href="https://twitter.com/charliebcurran/status/2051647381981290697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 5, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Republicans in California have gained some traction in the state’s gubernatorial race as Democrats continue to focus on anti-Trump messaging, much to Fetterman’s dismay. According to the prediction market Kalshi, Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton has a 79% chance of advancing to the runoff after the California primary in early June. Like Pratt, Hilton’s campaign focuses on safety and affordability in California. 
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Katie Porter’s latest ad features protesters holding signs reading “Dump Trump,” despite Trump not being in the race or up for re-election. There is less emphasis on Trump in the mayoral race.
Pratt’s political rival, Nithya Raman, ran an ad focused on Hollywood’s declining film industry, but it fell flat when she attempted to draw sympathy by featuring her husband, a Hollywood producer who has written for &#8220;30 Rock&#8221; and &#8220;Modern Family.&#8221; In the ad, Raman stands in a vacant studio lot discussing the city’s loss of movie production, saying, “This issue is personal to me because my husband works in the industry too.”
Mayor Bass frequently posts Instagram videos featuring members of her community. In one video, a supporter energizes a crowd by saying, “They say homelessness is up, but the numbers have gone down every year with Bass as mayor.”
Both Bass and Raman dropped out of the second Los Angeles mayoral debate. An online viewer poll from NBC4 L.A. showed 89% of respondents picked Pratt as the winner of the first debate. Bass’s team said the incumbent mayor is dropping out of the second debate to travel to Sacramento to lobby state officials for funding for the Palisades fire recovery. The L.A. Times reports that Raman dropped out because “her main reason to attend the forum was to debate Bass.”

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Under pressure, CBS News reversed course and released the full interview with Los Angeles mayoral candidate and former MTV reality star Spencer Pratt.
&#8220;FULL INTERVIEW: Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt spoke exclusively to CBS News this week about his campaign, his vision for the city, and why it&#8217;s resonating so strongly with voters on social media,&#8221; CBS shared the video on X Saturday afternoon.
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FULL INTERVIEW: Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt spoke exclusively to CBS News this week about his campaign, his vision for the city, and why it&#8217;s resonating so strongly with voters on social media. <a href="https://t.co/DjXU4SwNVk">pic.twitter.com/DjXU4SwNVk</a>
— CBS News (@CBSNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/2053190035097162171?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 9, 2026</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;A new era of responsible journalism! Thank you to CBS for posting our full interview so the voters can hear from their next Mayor!&#8221; Pratt <a href="https://x.com/spencerpratt/status/2053205613208027359">praised the move</a>.
After initially releasing only a short clip of the interview, the network came under fired as Pratt claimed that incumbent Mayor Karen Bass, a Democrat, was being allowed to place her thumb on the scales. The full interview, he said, painted a very different picture — and he challenged CBS to release it without editing.
Noting that he had filmed with CBS for &#8220;over an hour&#8221; at the site where his home once stood in the Pacific Palisades, Pratt said that he had discussed everything from affordability to crime — &#8220;things that voters care about&#8221; — but that the network had &#8220;turned it over to Karen Bass&#8217;s PR team,&#8221; and what they&#8217;d ultimately aired was a &#8220;comical&#8221; representation that included only a few minutes of the interview spliced with scenes from MTV&#8217;s &#8220;The Hills.&#8221;
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🚨 HOLY CRAP! LA mayor candidate Spencer Pratt just caught CBS engaging in ELECTION INTERFERENCE
He says they condensed a 1 hour interview into a “5 minute hit piece” after he WALLOPED Karen Bass
“They need to air the full, unedited interview.”
They KNOW Pratt is surging in LA <a href="https://t.co/saBXaIJaMw">pic.twitter.com/saBXaIJaMw</a>
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) <a href="https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/2053102283299135749?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 9, 2026</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;They can’t beat my ideas, they can’t beat me in the debates, so they gotta try to turn my campaign into a sideshow,&#8221; Pratt said, calling on CBS to release the full interview.
During the interview, Pratt was asked about the fact that he&#8217;d been compared to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani because of the way both had managed to harness social media to effectively reach people.
&#8220;He promised voters the subway will be free,&#8221; Pratt said of Mamdani. &#8220;I&#8217;m promise my voters the Metro buses, the Metro trains, they will be free from urine, feces, stabbing, attacks — so that&#8217;s kind of similar.&#8221;
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🚨 Spencer Pratt DROPS THE MIC when asked about people comparing him to Zohran Mamdani 🫳🏻🎤
“He promised voters the subway will be free.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m promise my voters the Metro buses, the Metro trains, they will be free from URINE, FECES, stabbing attacks!” 🔥 <a href="https://t.co/IxXmWKoYRQ">pic.twitter.com/IxXmWKoYRQ</a>
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) <a href="https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/2053503283847700986?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 10, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Democratic Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is withdrawing from a May 13 candidate forum — with just over two weeks to go before the primary election that could decide her fate.
Bass, who sparred with former reality TV star Spencer Pratt (MTV&#8217;s &#8220;The Hills&#8221;) and Democratic socialist city councilwoman Nithya Raman on the debate stage last week, pulled out of the forum despite previously confirming her attendance.
League of Women Voters of Greater Los Angeles and the Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs issued a <a href="https://ktla.com/news/local-news/karen-bass-cancels-appearance-at-televised-l-a-mayoral-forum/">statement</a> on Bass&#8217;s apparent reversal, saying, &#8220;Mayor Bass’s withdrawal is disappointing. Public forums such as this are a cornerstone of democratic accountability. These forums provide voters with the opportunity to hear candidates share their perspectives, respond to questions, and engage with one another on issues facing Los Angeles.&#8221;
The organizations touted their joint history of sponsoring candidate events that were presented in a fair and balance fashion, and allowed candidates across all parties to address the issues that mattered most.
&#8220;We remain committed to providing voters with meaningful opportunities to engage with those seeking public office,&#8221; the statement concluded.
Campaign spokesperson Alex Stack explained that Bass had decided to forgo the candidate forum because she&#8217;d already debated her &#8220;top two&#8221; opponents — referring to Raman and Pratt — and would instead be &#8220;in Sacramento that day fighting for funding for housing, homelessness, and Palisades Fire recovery, and will also discuss the city and state partnership on the Olympics and World Cup.&#8221;
Several of those topics — particularly homelessness, housing, and the Palisades Fire — were topics of heated exchanges during the previous debate. Pratt, who lost his home in the Palisades Fire, challenged both Bass and Raman directly over their actions (or lack thereof) that he claims exacerbated the deadly blaze.
Three candidates are still expected to participate in the Wednesday forum: Raman, Adam Miller and Rae Huang. Pratt was initially invited to participate but had declined due to a prior scheduling conflict.

LOS ANGELES, CA – AUGUST 17: L.A. Mayor Karen Bass announces establishing a task force to investigate, apprehend and prosecute suspects who have committed retail theft as businesses grapple with an uptick of smash-and-grabs in recent weeks a press conference held at City Hall in Los Angeles, CA.

Karen Bass Makes Surprising Move After Spencer Pratt Debate Clash

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is getting roasted online after an obscene verbal slip-up during a live mayoral debate became one of the night’s most viral moments.
The awkward exchange happened while Bass was defending her administration’s handling of the catastrophic Palisades fires that devastated parts of Los Angeles earlier this year.
“Was that a mistake?” the moderator immediately asked as Bass stumbled through the response. Attempting to explain problems with the city’s emergency response, Bass appeared to accidentally say “fire f*cks” instead of “fire trucks” before quickly correcting herself.
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Clips of the moment spread rapidly across social media, where critics mocked the mayor for looking flustered and unprepared during one of the most high-profile debates of the race so far.
The gaffe came during an especially rough night for Bass, who repeatedly found herself on defense over Los Angeles’ homelessness crisis, public safety concerns, and the city’s wildfire response. Several moments during the debate saw Bass interrupted or forced into lengthy explanations as challengers pressed her on the city’s ongoing problems.
Much of the criticism centered on Bass attempting to blame former Fire Chief Kristin Crowley for staffing issues during the deadly fires. Bass argued that firefighters had been sent home before conditions spiraled out of control — a claim that immediately sparked backlash online from critics accusing the mayor of trying to shift responsibility.
The debate quickly turned combative as frustration over the condition of Los Angeles dominated the discussion. Questions about rising crime, drug addiction, homelessness encampments, and taxpayer spending repeatedly put Bass on the defensive throughout the night.
Political observers noted that Bass often appeared tense and struggled to regain control during several exchanges as the audience reacted loudly to attacks over the city’s decline.
The viral debate performance now adds even more pressure to Bass as anger continues to build over the direction of Los Angeles ahead of the June 2 mayoral election.

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Karen Bass Obscene Debate Gaffe Goes Viral For All The Wrong Reasons

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Spencer Pratt ripped into his far-Left opponents during the Los Angeles mayoral debate on Wednesday, hammering their policies on everything from homelessness to firefighting. 
Pratt faced off against Mayor Karen Bass and socialist Councilwoman Nithya Raman on a stage where they clashed on how to best lead the city of 3.8 million. The former reality TV star said during the debate that he would crack down on crime, improve the city’s fire response readiness, and move away from the city’s ineffective efforts to combat homelessness. 
“The good news is when I enforce the law and clear the streets of the drug addicts that have taken over 40 blocks of downtown L.A., abandoned buildings that have drug addicts just lighting them on fire every other day, I will have potentially 20,000 units available to build,” Pratt said. 
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Spencer Pratt DESTROYS Los Angeles’s Communist mayoral candidates Karen Bass and Nithya Raman:
“The good news is, when I enforce the law and clear the street of the drug addicts that have taken over 40 blocks of downtown LA, abandoned buildings that have drug addicts just… <a href="https://t.co/FsXKD22lMC">pic.twitter.com/FsXKD22lMC</a>
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Pratt, whose home was burned down in the Pacific Palisades fire, accused Bass of denying money requested for fire engines just weeks before the blaze. He also accused her of using water reserves for fire fighting for drinking water. Bass claimed that Pratt was spreading &#8220;inaccurate&#8221; details of her response to the L.A. fires and said the reservoirs in question &#8220;have been for drinking water&#8221; for decades. The mayor also accused Pratt of spreading false information on the wind speeds during the fire outbreak, which L.A. authorities said were too high for firefighting aircraft to respond to the fires.
&#8220;She&#8217;s an incredible liar,&#8221; Pratt responded, urging the audience to research what weather stations reported on the wind speeds in the early days of the blaze. The debate moderators cut him off and told him he could not engage in &#8220;name-calling.&#8221;
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Pratt: &#8220;[Karen Bass] an incredible liar&#8230;&#8221;
Moderator: &#8220;I have to interrupt you for a minute. I have to interrupt you. No name-calling.&#8221;
Pratt: &#8220;She just… <a href="https://t.co/Z3L5gFPfmi">pic.twitter.com/Z3L5gFPfmi</a>
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During a different exchange, Pratt criticized Raman over her approach to homelessness and said she would get stabbed if she tried to implement her drug treatment plan for the homeless. 
“Councilwoman Raman acts like she doesn&#8217;t have any authority with this homelessness. She was the third most powerful person in city council,” he said. “She runs the homeless housing thing. She acts like this is just Mayor Bass.”
“The reality is, no matter how many beds you give these people, they are on super-meth. They are on fentanyl. The DEA statistics says 93% of this is a drug addiction problem,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Councilwoman Raman’s plan for treatment first — I will go below the Harbor Freeway tomorrow with her, and we can find some of these people she&#8217;s going to offer treatment for.  She&#8217;s going to get stabbed in the neck. These people do not want a bed. They want fentanyl or super-meth. These ideas cost us over $400 million.”
Pratt also accused Raman of favoring squatters over tenants, saying she would sue landlords who try to get squatters out of their properties. 
Moderators also asked the candidates if they would support letting noncitizens vote in elections. 
Pratt said no, while both Bass and Raman said it “depends.” 
“They could have green cards, they could be here perfectly legal, and there&#8217;s a lot of states and cities that do that on very, very local elections,” Bass said. 
Raman accused Pratt of having a “MAGA” vision for Los Angeles and said he was working with Bass to attack her campaign. 
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“Mayor Bass and I are definitely not working together. I blame this person for burning down my house and my parents&#8217; house and my town, and all my neighbors down,” Pratt responded. “You think it&#8217;s easier to run against the incumbent mayor with all the unions or a random city council member who&#8217;s been a failure for six years? I would much rather run against Councilwoman Raman.” 
The Los Angeles mayoral race is slated for June 2, 2026. If no candidate gets a majority of the vote, the top two candidates will move on to a runoff in November.

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Reality TV Star Spencer Pratt Obliterates Leftist Policies In Heated L.A. Mayoral Debate

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Spencer Pratt is going all in on his effort to unseat Democratic Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, delivering a series of viral campaign ads that have been lighting up social media.
His most recent efforts include a response video to Bass’s accusations that Pratt, a former reality star, is “exploiting the grief” of people affected by the Palisades fires for his own purposes. The “Hills” star clapped back with a video campaign of the clip juxtaposed with footage of him comforting his mother, Janet Pratt, when she gets emotional during a visit to the spot where Pratt’s home once stood. 
The loss of his own home in the deadly blaze is what inspired Pratt to get into politics in the first place.
“Change the channel,” Pratt wrote in the video caption shared on X, which included footage of Bass insinuating he was just in it to get famous.
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The comments were flooded with support for Pratt’s campaign. “You’re gaining a lot fans man by going after this evil force that’s taken over the west. Keep it up! You have a ton of folks rooting for you,” one person wrote, echoing what many others were saying. 
He followed that up by reposting a new AI-generated superhero-themed ad, made by filmmaker Charles Curran, which features California governor Gavin Newsom and failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris as aristocratic villains alongside Bass as the Joker. Pratt is shown as a Batman-like figure who arrives to save the city of Los Angeles. 
He and other citizens threw tomatoes at the lawmakers who were laughing at them for asking for permission to rebuild their homes and rid the streets of “homeless drug addicts in front of the schools.”
“LA is worth saving,” the video says.
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This follows Pratt’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/reality-star-rips-karen-bass-in-fiery-campaign-video">viral ad</a> from a week earlier, which included the former MTV reality star filming outside mansions belonging to Bass and Councilmember Nithya Raman, who is currently the frontrunner in the mayoral race. The scene then cuts to a homeless encampment as Pratt narrates, “They don’t have to live in the mess they created. Where YOU live.” 
Pratt recently appeared on an episode of &#8220;The Joe Rogan Experience&#8221; podcast and secured Rogan’s endorsement. Still, it’s an uphill battle in the crowded mayoral race. The competition is heating up with less than a month to go until election day on June 2, with many voters still being reported as undecided. 
Bass, Pratt, and Raman all <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-05-05/bass-pratt-raman-make-cut-for-tv-debate-as-la-mayors-race-kicks-into-high-gear">qualified to participate</a> in a televised debate Wednesday night.

Spencer Pratt Hits Back After Leftist Mayor Claims He’s ‘Exploiting’ Palisades Fire Victims

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Embattled Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass accused her reelection opponent, Spencer Pratt, of &#8220;exploiting the grief&#8221; of the LA wildfire victims. 
In an interview with left-wing podcast host Katie Phang, Bass criticized Pratt&#8217;s outspoken advocacy, claiming that he was capitalizing on the tragedy even though he was among those who lost a home in the Palisades wildfire. 
&#8220;Well, honestly, before this, I had never heard of Spencer Pratt. But the thing I am concerned about is that I feel like he’s exploiting the grief of people in the Palisades. And I think that’s reprehensible,&#8221; Bass said. &#8220;I think he&#8217;s about his own celebrity; he&#8217;s famous now again.&#8221;
&#8220;I think he could benefit by a basic civics course, because I don&#8217;t think he understands the basics of how any government works,&#8221; she added.
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The attacks come after Pratt, a former reality TV star, posted a<a href="https://x.com/spencerpratt/status/2049497051793412557?s=20"> viral advertisement</a> blasting Bass and other city leaders.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/reality-star-rips-karen-bass-in-fiery-campaign-video">In the campaign video</a>, Pratt films himself outside the mansions belonging to Bass and City Council member Nithya Raman. The scene then cuts to a homeless encampment as Pratt narrates, “They don’t have to live in the mess they created. Where you live,” he says.
&#8220;This is where I live,” Pratt adds while posing outside a trailer at the site of his burned-down home.
“They let my home burn down. I know what the consequences of failed leadership are. That’s why I’m running for mayor. For my sons, and the rest of us Angelenos that want to stop these corrupt politicians from destroying our city. We are gonna get the golden age of Los Angeles back,” he concludes.
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In January 2025, wind-whipped flames tore through homes and devastated entire neighborhoods in Altadena and the Pacific Palisades, an upscale community near the Los Angeles County coastline. Firefighters and emergency crews worked for weeks to fully contain the fires, which burned 50,000 acres and destroyed nearly 16,000 homes.
The fires, among the deadliest in California&#8217;s history, directly resulted in at least 31 deaths, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner. A more in-depth analysis by the<a href="https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2025/death-count-for-2025-la-county-wildfires-likely-hundreds-higher-than-official-records-show/#:~:text=An%20estimated%20440%20deaths%20are,excess%20mortality%20during%20that%20period."> Boston University School of Public Health</a>, however, estimated that the fires were responsible for 409 excess deaths.
&#8220;The additional 409 deaths that were excluded from official death records likely resulted from partially attributable factors such as lung or heart conditions due to increased exposure to air pollution from smoke and burning objects, as well as indirect factors such as disruptions in other critical healthcare or mental health emergencies,&#8221; the researchers said.
Mayor Bass, who was representing the Biden Administration in Africa as Los Angeles communities were reduced to rubble, came under scorching criticism for her handling of the fires.
Returning from her overseas trip, Bass was caught flat-footed and literally speechless at Los Angeles International Airport.
&#8220;Do you owe citizens an apology for being absent while their homes were burning, and do you regret cutting the fire department budget by millions of dollars, Madam Mayor?&#8221;<a href="https://x.com/SkyNews/status/1877115173443400065?s=20"> Sky News reporter David Blevins asked Bass at the airport</a>.
&#8220;Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today?&#8221; he added.
Pratt is a first-time candidate facing more than a dozen other contenders in the nonpartisan mayoral primary in June, including Bass, who is seeking re-election. <a href="blank">Prediction market</a>s currently favor leftist Nithya Raman.
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&#8216;Do you owe citizens an apology for being absent whilst their homes were burning? Do you regret cutting the fire department&#8217;s budget? 
<a href="https://twitter.com/skydavidblevins?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@skydavidblevins</a> questions the mayor of LA, Karen Bass, as she faces backlash regarding the California wildfires.<a href="https://t.co/Nkz8onjC7V">https://t.co/Nkz8onjC7V</a> <a href="https://t.co/WwRwp6Imqz">pic.twitter.com/WwRwp6Imqz</a>
— Sky News (@SkyNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1877115173443400065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2025</a></blockquote>

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