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>
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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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Leftist special interest groups ran an ad that was supposed to make former MTV reality TV star-turned-Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt look bad, and they appear to have stepped in it.
The ad, sponsored by L.A. Unions Opposed to Spencer Pratt for Mayor 2026 and the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor AFL-CIO, lays out a number of things that Pratt has either supported or opposed — and accidentally paints him as an entirely reasonable person with an agenda that veers dangerously close to the dictionary definition of &#8220;common sense.&#8221;
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The LA County Federation of Labor has a new committee lined up to go after Spencer Pratt, and they are dropping an initial $221k on this video &amp; an additional digital ad. <a href="https://t.co/vJnHCDunPb">pic.twitter.com/vJnHCDunPb</a>
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&#8220;Republican Spencer Pratt is the last thing Los Angeles needs for mayor,&#8221; the voiceover began. &#8220;Pratt opposes using taxpayer money to build brand new houses for our unhoused neighbors, saying it&#8217;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.&#8221;
&#8220;And Republican Spencer Pratt thinks public employee unions should have less power, not more,&#8221; the ad continued. &#8220;L.A. is on the right track and needs to stay the course. Vote no on Republican Spencer Pratt.&#8221;
Pratt <a href="https://x.com/spencerpratt/status/2053535640277709257">responded</a> to the ad, saying, &#8220;Wait. Unions are mad that I want firefighters and city workers to get better pay and safer working conditions? What are they actually … for?&#8221;
The majority of those responding commented on the fact that the unions, in attempting to paint Pratt as an extreme Republican, had only helped him to outline his positions in ways that would sound entirely reasonable — even good — to the average person.
RedState&#8217;s Jennifer Van Laar had a <a href="https://x.com/jenvanlaar/status/2053492048922296546">similar reaction</a>, saying of the ad, &#8220;Do these people know nothing of branding and sales? I get that the point of it is to make sure everyone knows that Spencer is Republican (since it&#8217;s a nonpartisan race that isn&#8217;t on the ballot) but damn. Saying his name so many times can really backfire. And they&#8217;re associating him with getting rid of homeless encampments and adding cops. Oh, the horror!&#8221;

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Los Ángeles Mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt vowed to bring in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) if elected, saying it would be necessary to rid the streets of &#8220;medieval diseases.&#8221;
Pratt, speaking with David Friedberg on &#8220;The All In&#8221; podcast, said that he&#8217;d give the lawless in L.A.&#8217;s streets &#8220;three weeks, or maybe we&#8217;ll even do two weeks, maybe people will want it faster&#8221; before he set to work cleaning things up.
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🚨 JUST IN: LA mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt announces Los Angeles criminals and homeless degenerates will have 2-3 WEEKS after he gets into office before MASS ARRESTS ensue
&#8220;First 3 weeks: signups, no nakedness, no drug use, no robbing, no dog abuse.&#8221;
Love this guy MORE AND… <a href="https://t.co/exoqW3j28e">pic.twitter.com/exoqW3j28e</a>
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&#8220;First three weeks, signs up across the city: &#8216;No more nakedness, no more drug use, no more robbing, no more —'&#8221; Pratt began.
&#8220;No more burning dogs in the street,&#8221; Friedberg interjected, referencing reports that dogs had been abused in the streets.
&#8220;— No more dog abuse,&#8221; Pratt agreed. &#8220;Very — on every sign, everywhere, so that — and we&#8217;re going to go around, we&#8217;re going to warn everybody, &#8216;you got three more weeks of this, clock&#8217;s ticking,&#8217; just keep telling — so that people are aware that, oh wow, there&#8217;s a new mayor in town.&#8221;
&#8220;They may start leaving,&#8221; he added with a shrug. &#8220;And then when the three weeks, or maybe we&#8217;ll even do two weeks, maybe people will want it faster. And then once we start enforcing the laws, BOOM! Streets will be back.&#8221;
&#8220;You know how else I&#8217;m going to bring in? The CDC, because there&#8217;s medieval diseases in these encampments. They&#8217;re not swabbing these encampments, they&#8217;re not swabbing the streets! People are just living in feces and drug use and dogs burning, and body — we need these streets cleaned!&#8221;
Pratt sparred with current Democratic Mayor Karen Bass and Democratic socialist city council-member Nithya Raman over how to deal with the issue of homelessness, and both of them argued in favor of offering treatment and beds at city expense. Pratt <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/reality-tv-star-spencer-pratt-obliterates-leftist-policies-in-heated-l-a-mayoral-debate">pushed back</a>, citing statistics indicating that many of L.A.&#8217;s homeless were abusing drugs.
Speaking specifically to Raman, he volunteered to go with her to offer treatment to homeless people in the city, and warned they were likely to attack her rather than accept her help.

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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.

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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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Former reality TV star Spencer Pratt says the only people standing against his surging Los Angeles mayoral campaign are “socialists and communists” — while insisting Democrats across the city are actually rallying behind him.
Pratt’s latest viral comments come just days after he dominated a televised debate against Democratic opponents Karen Bass and Councilmember Nithya Raman, where clips of the former “Hills” star torching city leadership over crime, homelessness, and public safety exploded online.
During a new interview circulating across social media, Pratt pushed back on the idea that he can’t win in deep-blue Los Angeles because he identifies as a Republican.
“It’s just the socialists and the communists that don’t back me,” Pratt said. “My supporters in L.A. are Democrats. Everyone I know, my family, are all Democrats. I grew up in L.A.!”
Pratt went on to claim that many of the people congratulating him after the debate were lifelong Democrats impressed by his message.
“Everybody that texted me last night, amazing, congratulations, are all Democrats,” he said. “So what people are confused on, the Democrats all are behind me.”
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&#8220;Reality TV villain&#8221; turned potential mayor of Los Angeles, Spencer Pratt, told CBS News&#8217; Adam Yamaguchi he is confident he is &#8220;probably going to win with 51% on June 2nd because I don&#8217;t do a political message.&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/adamyamaguchi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@adamyamaguchi</a> <a href="https://t.co/YgIxnmGEGg">pic.twitter.com/YgIxnmGEGg</a>
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The reality star-turned-political firebrand has increasingly positioned himself less as a traditional Republican candidate and more as an anti-establishment outsider focused on hyper-local issues impacting everyday Angelenos.
“I don’t do a political message. I don’t do national politics,” Pratt explained. “I don’t do tribal politics. I don’t talk about other states. I’m localized.”
Instead, Pratt says his campaign is centered around cleaning up Los Angeles streets, restoring public safety, and stopping taxpayer money from flowing to organizations he claims are profiting off the homelessness crisis.
“I just want to fix our streets, get the lights on. I want people to feel safe,” Pratt said. “I want to get our tax money to not be robbed by these literal criminal NGOs stealing from our tax to increase the homelessness!”
Pratt has become one of the internet’s most unexpected political stars in recent weeks thanks to a string of viral campaign videos, including ads attacking Bass and Raman over homelessness, drug addiction, and the city’s response to the devastating Palisades fires that destroyed Pratt’s home earlier this year.
Primary election day in Los Angeles is June 2.

Spencer Pratt Says There’s Only One Group Standing In His Way

Spencer Pratt, fresh off a combative performance at this week&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/reality-tv-star-spencer-pratt-obliterates-leftist-policies-in-heated-l-a-mayoral-debate">Los Angeles mayoral debate,</a> is heading into the weekend with another banger of a campaign ad.
In the AI-generated spot, Pratt presents a version of Los Angeles depicting clean streets, busy restaurants, and smiling residents. It&#8217;s an idealized vision that Pratt says could be possible under his leadership.
He has compared L.A. to the post-apocalyptic &#8220;Mad Max&#8221; movies, where &#8220;zombies&#8221; roam the streets. His new ad takes swipes at L.A.&#8217;s current condition, with actors portraying police officers and firefighters in a utopian setting as they deliver piercing lines.
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&#8220;We&#8217;re even allowed to arrest criminals now with handcuffs and everything,&#8221; a police officer says, while a firefighter adds, &#8220;Turns out it&#8217;s a lot easier to fight fires when there&#8217;s water in the reservoirs,&#8221; taking a shot at Democrat leadership during last year&#8217;s wildfires.
Pratt has been vocal on the issue after losing his home in the Pacific Palisades fires.
&#8220;A key reservoir, Santa Ynez, sat drained and offline for a year, leaving its helispots offline and hydrants dry in elevated Palisades neighborhoods during the blaze,&#8221; Pratt <a href="https://spencerpratt.substack.com/p/karen-strokes-la-chokes">said</a> last month.
The ad leans into Pratt&#8217;s campaign message focusing on public safety and quality-of-life. He has argued that stricter enforcement would improve the city and pushed a plan &#8220;to restore a camera-ready Los Angeles,&#8221; which includes sidewalk repairs, restored street lighting, pothole fixes, and rapid graffiti removal.
Pratt has taken a hard stance on homelessness, calling some &#8220;zombies&#8221; who are being enabled by bad policies.
&#8220;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,&#8221; Pratt said during Wednesday night&#8217;s debate.
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The spot closes with residents enjoying parks and public spaces, reinforcing Pratt&#8217;s pitch that families would be safer in his version of L.A.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t have to wonder anymore whether I just stepped in human sh*t or dog sh*t, so that&#8217;s nice,&#8221; a woman walking her dog says in the ad.
&#8220;I love going to the park now that it&#8217;s not an open drug market,&#8221; a young boy adds.
Pratt ended his video by declaring summer 2026 a &#8220;Pratt Summer,&#8221; a nod to Charlie XCX&#8217;s album from summer of 2024.
The ad was produced by Charlie Curran, who has created multiple AI-driven spots for Pratt&#8217;s campaign.
Pratt is set to face incumbent Democratic Mayor Karen Bass and far-Left Councilwoman Nithya Raman in the June 2, 2026, mayoral primary.

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Spencer Pratt Turns ‘Mad Max’ Los Angeles Into Paradise Overnight In First Post-Debate Ad

The Hills

Los Angeles used to mean something. It was the city where dreamers landed, where the sun never stopped shining on ambition, and where the American promise felt most tangible. You went to California to build something. Now you go to California to lose everything.
The homeless encampments stretch for miles. The fires of January 2025 burned unchecked because the water reservoirs sat empty. Parents can&#8217;t take their kids bike riding for fear of encountering a coke zombie. LAPD isn&#8217;t allowed to pull someone over for a cracked windshield because, apparently, traffic enforcement is racist. And Wednesday night, Mayor Karen Bass, communist mayor of Los Angeles, stood before cameras and had the nerve to say her priorities were &#8220;reducing homelessness, building more housing, and funding public safety.&#8221;
Laughable.
To be fair, she did deliver one Freudian slip for the ages — her only honest moment of the night — when she called the devastation under her watch &#8220;Fire F*cks.&#8221; Well, Karen &#8220;Basura,&#8221; whatever you call it, the city is indeed f*cked.
Here&#8217;s how you end up needing Batman. The city is wrecked, the Jokers are running the place, and nobody in power takes the law-abiding taxpayers seriously anymore. You used to come to California to chase dreams. Now you&#8217;re living in a nightmare. Someone has to fix this, and increasingly, it looks like that someone is a guy who used to be famous for making mountains out of celebrity gossip on reality television. This story sounds familiar, and that&#8217;s exactly why people are excited.
Spencer Pratt might be precisely what Los Angeles needs, and he&#8217;s answering the Pratt-signal.
Let&#8217;s not mince words about what Democrat governance has produced, because it starts and ends with Karen Bass.
Her flagship homelessness program, Inside Safe (aptly named, given that stepping outside in downtown L.A. often means taking your life in your hands), has spent $322 million of taxpayer money and placed just 1,243 people in permanent housing. Meanwhile, 44,000 still sleep and rot on L.A. streets, despite leadership throwing a total of $2.3 billion at homelessness. Couple the homeless hellscape with sky-high taxes, crushing regulations, and soft-on-crime insanity, and you end up with a California in worse shape than Gavin Newsom’s first marriage.
Then came the fires — allegedly ignited by an anti-capitalist <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/05/04/us-news/palisades-arsonist-became-fixated-with-luigi-mangione-before-deadly-blaze-prosecutors/">leftist</a> and fueled by negligent liberal leadership. Before the burning began, Bass had denied Fire Chief Crowley&#8217;s request for $17 million in fire engine funding, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s leadership drained both reservoirs firefighters needed to extinguish the flames, and Bass had sacrificed the fire operations’ budgets in favor of union wages. This wasn&#8217;t a natural disaster. It was a policy disaster, wearing the clothing of a natural disaster.
Somewhere in that smoke and ruin, Pratt lost his home. His family lost everything.
This is where Pratt diverges from everything the modern Left has tried to normalize.
The Left has built an entire political infrastructure around victimhood. It&#8217;s their currency, their recruitment tool, and their governing philosophy. Get knocked down, stay down, point fingers, demand funding, repeat. It&#8217;s a cycle designed not to solve problems but to perpetuate them — because a constituency that&#8217;s been healed is a constituency you no longer control.
Pratt was hit hard; his home, his neighborhood, his livelihood — gone. That&#8217;s a loss that would paralyze most people, but instead of signing up for the grievance=industrial complex, he got angry in the right direction. Not at an abstract villain, not at a demographic, but at the people who made the policy decisions. And then he decided to run for mayor.
That&#8217;s not victimhood. That&#8217;s leadership.
He&#8217;s got the &#8220;it factor&#8221; — that undeniable star power, social media savvy, and blunt communication style that cuts through the crap. He is Trump-like in his willingness to break things, step on toes, and say the quiet part out loud. His videos hammer the hypocrisy: rich <a href="https://x.com/DefiyantlyFree/status/2052414245124366422">communist</a> mayors and councilwomen living lavishly in their protected bubbles, completely unaffected by the fires, the homelessness, and the crime they created for the rest of us. <a href="https://x.com/WillCainShow/status/2051412886514204679">&#8220;They don&#8217;t have to live in the mess they created.&#8221;</a> He&#8217;s not looking for apologies. He&#8217;s looking for results.
Pratt is an actual victim but inoculated against the victimhood mindset disease that has infected modern politics. He didn&#8217;t turn his loss into a lifetime grift or a sob story for government handouts. He dusted off the ashes and decided to do something, and that is precisely what Los Angeles needs right now.
L.A. isn&#8217;t an anomaly; it&#8217;s a preview.
Every time top-down, government-knows-best governance has been tried, it has produced the same result: concentrated power, diluted accountability, and suffering for the very people it claimed to serve, be it the Soviet Union, Venezuela, Cuba, or Detroit, Baltimore, or Chicago. The pattern is consistent because the philosophy is consistent. And the excuses are always consistent: more money, more time, more compassion. Just one more chance and a bigger budget.
The only things that have ever actually fixed these disasters are accountability, market forces, and leaders willing to break the institutional inertia that protects failure. As Secretary of State Marco Rubio put it, there&#8217;s nothing worse than a communist, except an incompetent one. In Los Angeles, you&#8217;ve got both.
Republicans have a habit of playing defense. They conserve. They explain why the other side&#8217;s ideas won&#8217;t work, and they’re correct, but being right isn&#8217;t enough when the other side controls the narrative, the institutions, and the loudest microphones.
Pratt represents the offensive play. Blunt honesty without meanness or cruelty. The kind of honesty that Democrats can&#8217;t afford, because their entire coalition is built on promising outcomes they cannot deliver to constituencies they cannot afford to lose. Kind lies are the foundation of the modern Left. They sound like compassion. They end in chaos every time.
Los Angeles did not burn because of the wind. It did not collapse into an open-air drug market because of bad luck and orange bad man. It collapsed because the people in charge prioritized ideology over function, optics over operations, and loyalty to a failed playbook over loyalty to the residents who trusted them.
Spencer Pratt lost his home, and he knows the costs, but he&#8217;s not asking Los Angeles to feel sorry for him. He&#8217;s asking it to do something about it.
The city that once symbolized the American Dream is fighting for its life. It can choose the candidate who will perform empathy until the next disaster, or it can choose the one who has already lived through the disaster and decided enough is enough.
Los Angeles can be fabulous again, but first it has to be honest about how far it&#8217;s fallen.

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Los Angeles mayor

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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NEW: Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt fires back after the debate moderator accused him of &#8220;name-calling.&#8221;
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;
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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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