Former reality TV star turned Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt dropped another viral video on Friday, declaring &#8220;war&#8221; on what he called &#8220;the machine&#8221; that left voters with &#8220;two corrupt communists&#8221; in the general election.
&#8220;I got in this to expose this corrupt machine,&#8221; Pratt says at the beginning of the video. &#8220;I don&#8217;t have the campaign laws hamstringing me now. It&#8217;s war.&#8221;
The three-minute video, called &#8220;Saving LA &#8211; Phase III,&#8221; targets incumbent Mayor Karen Bass and far-left Councilmember Nithya Raman, two Democrats who advanced to the November runoff after Pratt finished third in the primary.
Pratt said he is now &#8220;moving on to the next, more interesting phase&#8221; of his mission, which includes a secret recording he claims implicates &#8220;one of your exalted candidates.&#8221; He threatened to make the recording public and said it would &#8220;make her resign in shame.&#8221;
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&#8220;Go ahead and pick your demon, certify your choice, and then you get to see it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So Karen and Nithya, ask yourself, is it possible that one of your employees may have a recording of you doing or saying something that would force you to resign in disgrace? I hope you sleep well over the next five months.&#8221;
Pratt painted a bleak picture of L.A. through images of rampant graffiti, garbage-strewn streets, drug activity, public defecation, burned-out structures, and shuttered businesses.
&#8220;Angelenos are now stuck with two morons responsible for all of their problems, and they have to choose between dumb and dumber,&#8221; Pratt said. &#8220;That&#8217;s not a choice. That&#8217;s the machine protecting the machine.&#8221;
&#8220;And now every problem that plagues Los Angeles because of these two corrupt communists is going to accelerate, and the city will tumble headlong into the abyss,&#8221; he added.
With roughly 98% of the vote counted, Bass finished first in the primary with 34.3% of the vote, while Raman overtook Pratt earlier this week to finish second with 28.9%. Pratt received 25.5%. The top two finishers advance to the general election unless one candidate receives more than 50% of the vote.
Pratt, a Republican, vowed to continue attacking both Democrats through the runoff campaign.
&#8220;I&#8217;m going to be lighting you up every single day,&#8221; Pratt promised.
&#8220;My goal hasn&#8217;t changed. I&#8217;ve been laser-focused on stopping these commie animals, and I will stop them.&#8221;

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WATCH: Spencer Pratt Goes Scorched Earth On ‘Two Corrupt Communists,’ Declares ‘War’

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Spencer Pratt responded with skepticism Sunday night as his socialist opponent overtook him in the Los Angeles mayoral race after days of vote counting that has led to Republicans calling for major election reforms in California.
Leftist councilwoman Nithya Raman officially jumped out in front of Pratt on Sunday after mail-in ballot dumps throughout the week consistently shifted the race in her favor. Pratt led Raman by around nine percentage points on election night. After the big swing in Raman&#8217;s favor, Pratt raised questions about where all the ballots came from to support her. 
&#8220;&#8216;A net swing of more than 43,000 votes since Tuesday..&#8217; 43,000, huh? Where have I seen that number before&#8230;? Probably nothing,” Pratt posted on X, highlighting an article which reported that Los Angeles had over 43,000 homeless people out on the average night. 
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&#8220;A net swing of more than 43,000 votes since Tuesday..&#8221;
43,000, huh? Where have I seen that number before&#8230;?
Probably nothing. 🤷 <a href="https://t.co/W2E3k6PHyR">https://t.co/W2E3k6PHyR</a> <a href="https://t.co/ZfzHCy9enb">pic.twitter.com/ZfzHCy9enb</a>
— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) <a href="https://x.com/spencerpratt/status/2063784193688056310?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2026</a></blockquote>
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After the Sunday ballot count update, Decision Desk HQ projected that Raman would advance to the general election against incumbent Mayor Karen Bass, leaving Pratt locked out of the race. 
President Donald Trump, who supported Pratt’s campaign, claimed that Pratt and Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton were being cheated in their elections. Hilton, who started in first place, has seen his Democrat opponents rapidly gain ground as mail-in ballot counting continues. 
“Has anybody been watching the CROOKED Election going on in California. Two great Republican Candidates are being cheated, and so is America, which if the Dumocrats are able to fulfill their mission, great trouble and consternation will follow,” Trump posted on Truth Social on Sunday night. “Watch this ‘Election’ closely!!!”
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Federal officials are seeking to audit California’s election system, which has been criticized for its agonizingly long vote-counting process. 
First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said Sunday that California was blocking an audit of its voter rolls and noted that the state <a href="https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/hava-id-standards">allows</a> first-time voters to use &#8220;surprising&#8221; forms of ID to register to vote, including a gym membership card, employer ID card, credit or debit card, prescription drug label, and insurance card. 
“This is permitted when a voter fails to provide a Social Security number or driver’s license at registration. Our office believes this policy deserves a closer look,” he said. “We also have serious concerns about how California maintains its voter rolls. There are open questions about whether the state is promptly removing deceased voters, people who have moved, and individuals convicted of disqualifying felonies.”
“On top of that, California allows third parties to collect and turn in ballots on voters’ behalf (a practice known as ballot harvesting) with few restrictions. This makes it difficult to track who actually received, completed, and submitted each ballot,” he added. 
The Trump administration sued California after the state failed to provide information on its voter rolls as it attempts to ensure that only American citizens are registered to vote.

Celebrity Sightings In Los Angeles – June 02, 2026

Spencer Pratt Connects Raman’s Vote Surge To A Statistic LA Can’t Escape

California Elections

The man accused of killing &#8220;Top Gun: Maverick&#8221; actor James Handy made a chilling 911 call after allegedly stabbing the 81-year-old actor outside of a Los Angeles home.
Michael Gledhill, who is the son of Handy’s girlfriend, Wendy, allegedly stabbed Handy in the chest in the front yard of the home of Handy’s girlfriend, where her son also lived. After the stabbing, Gledhill told 911 dispatchers, &#8220;I am the son of man, I just killed the man of sin,&#8221; according to <a href="https://ktla.com/news/local-news/i-just-killed-the-man-of-sin-tarzana-man-arrested-in-fatal-stabbing/">KTLA</a>.
The stabbing that has shocked avid movie fans who knew Handy’s work most recently in &#8220;Top Gun: Maverick,&#8221; happened around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday in the 19200 block of Erwin Street in the Tarzana neighborhood of Los Angeles.
“I’m just trying to make it through one day at a time, a minute at a time,” 76-year-old Wendy Gledhill <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/06/05/us-news/james-handys-girlfriend-breaks-silence-after-her-son-allegedly-killed-top-gun-maverick-actor/">told</a> The California Post.
“I loved James and my son. I still can’t believe it. &#8230; I can’t believe my son did it. I’m just trying to,&#8221; she added.
When officers arrived after the phone call from Gledhill, they found the veteran actor unconscious, per KTLA. Handy was taken to a local hospital by Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics and was later pronounced dead.
In video obtained by <a href="https://www.foxla.com/video/fmc-qaaks9n29mquwcyp">Fox 11 Los Angeles</a>, Gledhill is seen on a neighbor’s doorbell camera walking away from the gruesome scene before returning and turning himself in to police. The video also shows a blue shirt on the ground covered in blood.
The motive for the killing is still under investigation, but according to KTLA detectives believe the stabbing was an isolated incident and there isn’t a threat to the public. Gledhill’s bond is set at $2 million, <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/06/05/us-news/james-handy-girlfriends-son-seen-calmly-walking-away-from-where-top-gun-maverick-actor-was-stabbed-to-death/">the New York Post</a> reported.
Handy had a long career in Hollywood starting back in the 1970s. He had a role in &#8220;Arachnophobia,&#8221; as well as playing the exterminator in the blockbuster hit, &#8220;Jumanji,&#8221; alongside Robin Williams. He had several TV roles as well, including &#8220;Melrose Place,&#8221; &#8220;Alias,&#8221; &#8220;The West Wing,&#8221; and &#8220;NYPD Blue.&#8221;
Handy lived a reclusive life in his later years and made his last public appearance nearly 10 years ago in September 2017, per the Post.

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Nearly 48 hours after the polls closed in California, the results of the gubernatorial primary and the Los Angeles mayor’s race remain unresolved as President Donald Trump has accused Democrats in the state of attempting to &#8220;steal&#8221; the elections.
With just 58% of the vote reported Thursday evening, Republican Steve Hilton still leads the gubernatorial primary with 27.2% support, ahead of Democrat Xavier Becerra at 25.9%. Both were ahead of billionaire Democrat Tom Steyer, who was at 20.1%. On Wednesday evening, 55% of the vote had been counted.
Despite Hilton’s lead, millions of ballots are still uncounted, making it too early to determine the final order of finish. Under California’s top-two primary system, candidates from the same party can advance to a runoff in November’s general election if they finish in the top two.
In the Los Angeles mayoral race, just 66% of the vote had been counted by Thursday evening, up from 62% from Wednesday evening. Incumbent Democrat Mayor Karen Bass still leads with 35.1% support, followed by Republican Spencer Pratt at 29.4%. Far-left Councilmember Nithya Raman was third with 23.4%.
The top two votegetters in the mayoral primary, regardless of party, secure a place in the November runoff if neither receives more than 50% of the vote. Bass has already secured a spot in the runoff, according to projections.
Trump took to Truth Social late Wednesday night and again on Thursday to accuse Democrats of election fraud, asking, &#8220;Why the vote counting DELAY???&#8221;
&#8220;Look what&#8217;s happening in California, the Dumocrats, right before our very eyes, are stealing the vote,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116693025089379568">posted</a> on Thursday.
Mayor Bass responded on X Thursday evening.
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Trump only says this when MAGA candidates, like Spencer Pratt, start losing.
LA will count every vote. <a href="https://t.co/gNi5m13uq7">pic.twitter.com/gNi5m13uq7</a>
— Karen Bass (@KarenBassLA) <a href="https://x.com/KarenBassLA/status/2062644938710581401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 4, 2026</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Trump only says this when MAGA candidates, like Spencer Pratt, start losing,&#8221; she posted. &#8220;LA will count every vote.&#8221;
Delayed results are routine in California because of the state’s extensive vote-by-mail system, signature verification, and procedures for resolving ballot errors.
The final tally of California’s races could take as long as three weeks. Unlike many states that require mail ballots to arrive by Election Day, California accepts ballots that arrive up to 7 days later if postmarked on time. Then, those ballots have up to 7 days to reach a processing center. Counties must verify signatures, count provisional ballots, and allow voters to cure certain ballot defects before results are certified.

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California Still Counting Votes As Trump Says Democrats Are ‘Stealing’ Elections

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The votes have not yet been fully counted in Los Angeles, but that has not stopped mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt from dropping a serious challenge on incumbent Mayor Karen Bass.
Pratt, who holds a seven-point lead over democratic socialist city councilwoman Nithya Raman, appears poised to hold onto second place and face Bass in a runoff in November&#8217;s general election, and he wants to debate her — weekly, if possible — until then.
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Reporter: “Are you going to debate Karen Bass again?”
Spencer Pratt: “I love debating her on NBC. I look forward to a couple more on NBC and Fox. We can do debates every Friday if she would like. Because this actually became my most favorite thing to do.”
“So yes, as many… <a href="https://t.co/qkf7HiTSTh">pic.twitter.com/qkf7HiTSTh</a>
— RedWave Press (@RedWavePress) <a href="https://x.com/RedWavePress/status/2062134855001903575?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 3, 2026</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Are you going to debate Karen Bass again?&#8221; a reporter asked Pratt on Tuesday evening outside his primary election night party. &#8220;And what do you want to tell her if she sees this?&#8221;
“I loved debating her on NBC. I look forward to a couple more on NBC, and Fox,&#8221; Pratt replied. &#8220;We can do debates every Friday if she would like, because it’s actually become my favorite thing to do. So, yes, as many debates as Mayor Bass would like.&#8221;
&#8220;What would you like to tell her now that it&#8217;s on?&#8221; the reporter asked.
“She knows it’s on. I hope she’s ready, you know, because I am — I literally could not be more excited,&#8221; the former MTV reality star added.
As the evening went on, Pratt voiced confidence that he would ultimately be the one to face Bass in November — and he declared that he was more than ready to do so: &#8220;I am ready for whatever God puts in front of me &#8230; I was going to be happy if I wasn’t moving forward, but now I feel very confident.&#8221;
As of Thursday morning, with <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-primary-elections/los-angeles-mayor-results">62% of the vote counted</a>, Bass was leading the field with 35% of the vote and had already been projected to move on to the runoff in the general election. Pratt followed with 29.9% of the vote, holding just over a seven-point lead on Raman, who had 22.8%.
The mail-in ballots, which are likely to favor Bass and Raman over Pratt, are what remain to be counted — and could take days, as signatures must be verified prior to the ballots being counted. If Bass succeeds in earning more than 50% of the vote, she could avoid a November runoff altogether. If she doesn&#8217;t, she will be the first incumbent Los Angeles mayor to be forced into a runoff in 21 years.

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The Votes Aren’t Even All Counted Yet, But Spencer Pratt Just Dropped A Challenge On Karen Bass

The Votes Aren't Even Counted Yet, But Spencer Pratt Just Dropped A Challenge On Karen Bass

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Almost 24 hours after the polls closed in California, the results of the gubernatorial primary and the Los Angeles mayor&#8217;s race remain unresolved.
With just 55% of the vote reported on Wednesday evening, Republican Steve Hilton still leads the field of more than 60 candidates with 27.6% support, ahead of Democrat Xavier Becerra, who had 25.5%. Both were solidly ahead of billionaire Democrat Tom Steyer, who was at 19.7%.
Despite Hilton&#8217;s lead, millions of ballots remain uncounted, making it too early to determine the final order of finish. Under California&#8217;s top-two primary system, candidates from the same party can advance to a runoff in November&#8217;s general election if they finish in the top two.
In the Los Angeles mayoral race, 62% of the vote has been counted. Incumbent Democrat Mayor Karen Bass leads with 35% support, while Republican Spencer Pratt has received 29.9%. Far-left Councilmember Nithya Raman trailed with 22.8%. The top two votegetters in the mayoral primary, regardless of party, secure a place in the November 3 runoff if neither receives more than 50% of the vote. Bass has already secured a spot in the runoff, according to projections.
Bass would normally have a major advantage over other candidates, but discontent with her handling of the Palisades fire and the homeless crisis led Pratt to join the race, and he then resonated with many of the same sentiments felt by other Angelenos.
Delayed results are routine in California because of the state&#8217;s extensive vote-by-mail system, signature verification, and procedures for resolving ballot errors.
The final tally of California&#8217;s races could take as long as three weeks. Unlike many states that require mail ballots to arrive by Election Day, California accepts ballots that arrive up to 7 days later if postmarked on time. Then, those ballots have up to 7 days to reach a processing center. Counties must verify signatures, count provisional ballots, and allow voters to cure certain ballot defects before results are certified.
On Wednesday evening, CNN broadcast live shots from the Los Angeles County Registrar&#8217;s office, which handles 25% of the state&#8217;s votes. The large room appeared sparsely staffed at the time of the broadcast. A CNN reporter on the scene said they were on break.
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Nearly 24 Hours After The Polls Closed, California Is Still Counting Votes

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Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman broke down in tears Tuesday night as early vote returns showed the far-Left city councilmember in third place.  
Incumbent Mayor Karen Bass officially secured a spot in November’s runoff election, while reality television star Spencer Pratt and Raman battle for the second spot. If no one receives a majority of the vote, the top two vote-getters advance to the November election. 
With roughly 63% of the vote counted, Bass led the field with 34.8% support, according to Associated Press results. Pratt is holding the second-place spot with 30.4%, while Raman trails in third at 22.3%.
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Raman, who is aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America, launched a last-minute challenge to Bass and campaigned to peel away support from the mayor’s Left flank. On Tuesday night, she fought back tears as she addressed supporters in downtown Los Angeles.
“I hope you know that everything every person in this room is fighting for in this campaign has been about building a city that&#8217;s worthy of you and every child in this city,” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3Fiw800JNM">Raman said.</a> 
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Nithya Raman walked out to her campaign funeral in literal tears last night
She can&#8217;t hide her disappointment at the red wave that showed out in LA Mayoral race
Angelenos are taking their city back from the grip of incompetence. <a href="https://t.co/8q1ybdgQmG">pic.twitter.com/8q1ybdgQmG</a>
— Danny De Urbina (@dannydeurbina) <a href="https://x.com/dannydeurbina/status/2062156851945332910?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 3, 2026</a></blockquote>
Raman, who represents Los Angeles City Council District 4 and serves as chair of the council’s Housing and Homelessness Committee, has made homelessness a central issue of her campaign. 
Her campaign <a href="https://www.nithyaforthecity.com/homelessness">promised</a> to halve the number of people living in encampments by the 2028 Olympic Games. 
“The most painful crisis facing Los Angeles right now is homelessness,” Raman <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DX9n9POuYyy/">said</a> in a campaign ad. “It’s the reason I first decided to run for office. My young children were seeing the crisis on the streets every day. It’s not okay for anyone to be sleeping on the sidewalk in the world’s richest country.”
Raman’s detractors argue her record on homelessness paints a different picture. She has touted efforts to remove 500 people off the streets and into interim housing, which is only 0.7% of Los Angeles’s homeless population, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/far-left-dem-trolled-with-mock-homeless-encampment-outside-her-2m-home">The Daily Wire previously reported</a>.
At a 2024 event, <a href="https://x.com/WellsJorda89710/status/2054540425445216447?s=20">attendees booed Raman</a> after she argued that a 500-foot buffer between homeless encampments and schools would not make children safer.  
Pratt, whose savvy social media-centered campaign has captivated much of the country, struck a more defiant tone. 
“She knows it’s on. I hope she’s ready,” Pratt said Tuesday night when asked about a potential runoff against the incumbent mayor. “I literally could not be more excited.”
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“She knows it’s on. I hope she’s ready.” Let’s go Spencer Pratt! <a href="https://x.com/hashtag/PrattSummer?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PrattSummer</a> <a href="https://t.co/STygzD86QZ">pic.twitter.com/STygzD86QZ</a>
— Jackie Terribile for SC Statehouse (@JackieforSC) <a href="https://x.com/JackieforSC/status/2062140879012302856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 3, 2026</a></blockquote>
The leftist city councilmember is not out of the race yet. The remaining ballots to be counted include a substantial number of vote-by-mail ballots, which traditionally lean Democratic.

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WATCH: Far-Left L.A. Mayoral Candidate Breaks Down In Tears

Election

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass officially secured a spot in November&#8217;s runoff election, while reality television star Spencer Pratt and far-Left Councilmember Nithya Raman continued battling for the second slot.
With roughly 63% of the vote counted as of Wednesday morning, Bass led the field with 34.8% support, according to Associated Press results. Pratt was running second with 30.4%, while Raman trailed in third at 22.3%.
The Associated Press projected Bass would advance to the runoff. As of Wednesday morning, however, the race between Pratt and Raman had not yet been called.
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Pratt, however, was already talking like the runoff matchup had been set: Spencer Pratt versus Karen Bass.
&#8220;She knows it&#8217;s on. I hope she&#8217;s ready,&#8221; Pratt said Tuesday night when asked about a potential runoff against the incumbent mayor. &#8220;I literally could not be more excited.&#8221;
A few months ago, Pratt was viewed as a long-shot candidate. Now he appears within striking distance of becoming Bass&#8217; challenger in November.
&#8220;I was going to be happy if I wasn&#8217;t moving forward, but now I feel very confident,&#8221; he said.
The reality television star turned political outsider has built his campaign around voter frustration with homelessness, crime, and Bass&#8217; handling of the wildfire disaster that destroyed thousands of homes. Pratt lost both his own home and his childhood home in the fire.
And while election officials were still counting ballots, Pratt was already talking about what comes next.
&#8220;We have five months to put the best team the city could ever dream of,&#8221; he said.
Pratt argued that voters have rallied behind his campaign because they are tired of politicians and want someone willing to tell them the truth.
&#8220;At the end of the day, what&#8217;s been resonating is that people just want the truth and they want to know somebody&#8217;s heart,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I try to be as true to my authentic self and I just believe a lot of Los Angeles is so excited to hear from a non-politician.&#8221;
Pratt said voters are looking for a fighter.
&#8220;They want somebody to speak the truth for their communities and fight for them,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They want a fighter that&#8217;s going to step up when the city fails them or their elected leaders fail them and I&#8217;m ready to be that person for Los Angeles.&#8221;
He also couldn&#8217;t resist taking a shot at Raman, who spent much of the campaign fighting him for second place.
&#8220;The communist already lost,&#8221; Pratt said.
Thousands of ballots remain uncounted, and election officials will continue processing votes in the coming days.
If the current results hold, Los Angeles could be headed toward one of the most unexpected mayoral runoffs in recent memory: Karen Bass versus Spencer Pratt.
Pratt made it clear he&#8217;s ready for that possibility.
&#8220;We can do debates every Friday if she&#8217;d like,&#8221; he said. &#8220;As many debates as Mayor Bass would like.&#8221;

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One Candidate Advances In Heated L.A. Mayor’s Race — Second Spot Still Up For Grabs

Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt says he has a plan that could &#8220;eliminate&#8221; Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) from contention in the 2028 presidential election — he just has to get elected first.
Pratt, running to unseat Democratic incumbent Mayor Karen Bass, said during a recent podcast interview that he planned to investigate Newsom — bringing in the IRS if necessary — and find any fraudulent uses of Angelenos&#8217; tax dollars.
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Pratt laid out his plan on the &#8220;No Jumper&#8221; podcast, noting that Newsom was termed out at the end of the year and saying that, as mayor, he would absolutely investigate the outgoing administration for fraud.
&#8220;As mayor, I&#8217;ll be exposing his fraud with our tax money,&#8221; Pratt promised. &#8220;So I&#8217;ll probably actually eliminate him from being the president because I&#8217;m going to bring in the criminal investigation team of the IRS to go back in time and get all the documents, so that all the people have jacked all of our tax money, we&#8217;re going to find their Bentleys, we&#8217;re going to find their houses, we&#8217;re going to put them up to sale and we&#8217;re going to figure out how to put that money back into neighborhoods, the parks and the kids, the boys and girls club after school.&#8221;
&#8220;Because these people are stealing our money and it&#8217;s not going to the kids in the communities,&#8221; Pratt concluded.
The podcast host argued that Newsom, using the current state of California as his platform, should have a hard time winning a national election — but Pratt wasn&#8217;t so sure.
&#8220;I wish that was true, but my experience being deep in this battle: people just believe lies,&#8221; he said.

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How Spencer Pratt Would ‘Eliminate’ Gavin Newsom As A Presidential Candidate

How Spencer Pratt Would 'Eliminate' Gavin Newsom As A Presidential Candidate

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The creator of the popular HBO drama series “Entourage” says he supports Spencer Pratt for mayor of Los Angeles because it makes logical sense.
Doug Ellin said he was radicalized after having his Beverly Hills home burglarized by masked intruders, as he shared on Instagram last week. The 58-year-old screenwriter and director mentioned that five years ago he didn&#8217;t even lock his door, but now says he has 15 cameras, two German Shepherds, and guns. He said “two animals” invaded his house. 
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&#8220;I know they were animals because they invaded my house. I know I don&#8217;t care what their excuses are, like a lot of you f*cking care. I know invaders of homes should get 20 years,” Ellin said in the video, which was shared across multiple social media platforms. 
He continued, “Everyone in my neighborhood has got the same problem: they&#8217;re f*cking all putting cameras and high-end security guards because we&#8217;re all getting broken into. It&#8217;s not made up, it&#8217;s not false, and this city has collapsed in the last five years. There is no f*cking denying it unless you have an agenda, and I don&#8217;t know what that is.”
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The “Entourage” creator went on to shoot down some of the criticisms that have been voiced against Pratt, a former reality star with no political experience, running for mayor.
&#8220;But, you say, &#8216;Oh, Spencer Pratt has no experience!&#8217; &#8230; What experience did Karen Bass have? &#8230;We want to fix this place because we don&#8217;t want to be forced out. I&#8217;m one of the people who made this city look great! I did it for years. I glorified it. I meet people all the time that moved here because of the show that I f*cking created, and they hate it here now. HATE!&#8221;
Ellin’s video is suspected to be a response to a recently published Los Angeles Times article titled, “L.A. is safer than it&#8217;s been in decades, but crime is an issue dominating the mayor&#8217;s race.&#8221; He addressed the Instagram rant to “LA Times gaslighters.” 
Pratt also shared the video last week to social media. The former “Hills” star is polling second behind Bass ahead of the June 2 primary. While Pratt’s odds of winning have increased dramatically in recent months, he still faces an uphill battle in the Democrat stronghold. The last time a Republican won a mayoral race in Los Angeles was in 1997.

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‘This City Has Collapsed’: ‘Entourage’ Creator Endorses Spencer Pratt For Mayor

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Former MTV reality star Spencer Pratt informed comedian Bill Maher that, if elected mayor of Los Angeles, he would enforce laws against smoking marijuana around children and in public spaces.
Pratt joined Maher for the latest episode of his &#8220;Club Random&#8221; podcast, where the two discussed Pratt&#8217;s dramatic surge leading into Tuesday&#8217;s jungle primary — and Pratt said he was absolutely ready to enforce laws already on the books regarding cannabis smoking and drug use when children are present.
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Pratt explained that he&#8217;d never really talked about politics when he was on MTV, saying that at the time he&#8217;d been trying to be famous, and did not see an advantage in angering one half of the audience or the other.
Maher asked then whether he cared about &#8220;all the issues&#8221; now that he was running to be mayor of Los Angeles, and Pratt said no.
&#8220;I care about safety, the lights being on, potholes. I don’t want you smoking in front of kids at the park. You know, I’ll be enforcing if you’re smoking that in front of a kid at a swing. I’ll be getting you as mayor,&#8221; he jabbed at Maher, who is well known for his love of marijuana.
&#8220;No more drugs around kids at parks, in schools, in front of daycares,&#8221; Pratt said. &#8220;We need to have a society of consequences again &#8230; I never thought growing up I could smoke a blunt in front of a kid at the park. Now that happens. Moms do not want their kids that are like 5 years old &#8230;&#8221;
Maher continued to press Pratt on specific issues — namely the regulatory red tape surrounding solar panels, despite the fact that California has been pushing more people toward green energy sources — and Pratt insisted that crime and drug use needed to be handled first: &#8220;We’re about three years from worrying about solar panels. We need to get all the naked drug addicts off of the sidewalks, and then I can worry about solar panels.&#8221;
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Spencer Pratt drags Bill Maher out of his liberal bubble and brought him back down to earth.
Maher was annoyed that Pratt didn’t know the specifics about taxes on solar powered energy, but Pratt humbled him with the REAL problems Angelenos care about.
MAHER: “This is a state… <a href="https://t.co/OvfHVkVzCh">pic.twitter.com/OvfHVkVzCh</a>
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Pratt and Maher appeared to be on the same wavelength for much of the conversation, but the former MTV star shocked the comedian with one assertion: the number of homeless people in Los Angeles who, he says, are not even from California.
&#8220;Ready for the best part?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;60% of the people in Los Angeles that are &#8216;experiencing homelessness&#8217; are NOT from California! They&#8217;ve been brought here by NGOs that profit off of this homeless industrial complex.&#8221;
&#8220;Wait, wait, they&#8217;ve been brought here?&#8221; Maher asked.
&#8220;They&#8217;ve been brought here,&#8221; Pratt replied. &#8220;Body brokers bring these people here from all across the country. If you&#8217;re an addict you can come to LA and get these rehabs and because you can use Medicaid, Social Security.&#8221;
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&#8220;Ready for the best part? 60% of the people in Los Angeles that are &#8216;experiencing homelessness&#8217; are NOT from California! They&#8217;ve been brought here by… <a href="https://t.co/Iq7R41gxdt">pic.twitter.com/Iq7R41gxdt</a>
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Spencer Pratt Drops A Reality Check On Bill Maher’s Pot Around Kids

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Fifteen cameras. Two German Shepherds. Three legal guns.
That’s not a man preparing for the apocalypse. That’s a Tuesday afternoon in Los Angeles.
Doug Ellin, the creator of Entourage — the show that made L.A. look like the greatest party on Earth, that made a generation of young men throw their belongings in a truck and chase the dream West — had his home invaded by masked intruders. His response wasn&#8217;t a therapy session or a sternly worded letter to his city councilman. It was a small arsenal, a <a href="https://x.com/Jules31415/status/2061337093247283455">viral</a> meltdown, and the kind of raw honesty that makes comfortable people deeply uncomfortable.
&#8220;I meet people all the time that moved here because of the show that I f*cking created,&#8221; Ellin said, &#8220;and they hate it here now. HATE.&#8221;
He&#8217;s not talking about traffic. He&#8217;s not talking about high rent. He&#8217;s talking about the specific, suffocating dread of a city that has turned on its own people.
Picture the L.A. Ellin once sold to the world: rooftop pools, warm nights, the electric possibility that the next party could change your life. Now picture the Los Angeles his neighbors actually inhabit: floodlights burning at 3 AM, Ring cameras covering every blind spot, security guards on rotating shifts because the police — defunded, demoralized, and politically neutered — aren&#8217;t coming fast enough. Or at all.
&#8220;Everyone in my neighborhood has got the same problem: they&#8217;re f*cking all putting cameras and high-end security guards because we&#8217;re all getting broken into,&#8221; Ellin said. &#8220;This city has collapsed in the last 5 years. There is no f*cking denying it unless you have an agenda.”
Unfortunately, they all do. This is the agenda: remain as politically braindead as the heroin addicts terrorizing the city, vote blue until they&#8217;re bluer in the face than the zombie coke heads sleeping next to the ballot boxes, and endure the deteriorating quality of life in the name of social justice and pro-socialist &#8220;lesser evil&#8221; voting.
To discover where that agenda leads to, try walking down streets that once hosted Oscar parties. The tent cities stretch for blocks. Fentanyl zombies sway at intersections while dashcam footage of daylight smash-and-grabs floods social media. Film production, the oxygen of L.A.’s economy, the industry that built the dream, has ditched the city of angels and moved to Georgia and New Zealand. The lots are quieter. The crews are gone.
<a href="https://x.com/i/status/2052981973409513626">Six to seven people overdose and die</a> in Los Angeles <a href="https://x.com/i/status/2057564330158387374">every single day.</a> This isn’t a war zone. This isn’t a developing nation. This is the city with the most expensive real estate on the continent. A city whose mayor just spent billions to solve homelessness and produced nothing but a $1 billion deficit and a <a href="https://x.com/i/status/2060469288474210420">metastasizing crisis</a>.
Karen Bass, the incumbent mayor, promised to end those very street encampments. She failed. Then, she <a href="https://x.com/FilmThePoliceLA/status/2061108205636522046">presided</a> over the most destructive wildfire in the city&#8217;s history. She <a href="https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/sb-79-housing-bill-newsom-los-angeles-oppose-karen-bass/3789876/">opposed</a> housing bills. She oversaw an exodus of film production that gutted the middle class of her own creative economy. She claims crime is down. It&#8217;s not. The <a href="https://x.com/zarathustra5150/status/2057807103834591247">reporting</a> of crime is down because victims don&#8217;t bother calling a defunded police force, and because officers are quietly pressured to reclassify felonies into misdemeanors.
The LA Times recently ran the <a href="https://x.com/latimes/status/2058565710159216840">headline</a>: &#8220;L.A. is safer than it&#8217;s been in decades.&#8221; Doug Ellin read that from behind his 16th security camera.
The paper of record and the people on the ground are living in different cities. Only one of them is real.
But journalists, politicians, and their eager ballot beavers can&#8217;t run on ideas and empty promises forever. Eventually reality catches up, far later than it does for the citizens they&#8217;ve already hurt, but eventually nonetheless.
Take Nithya Raman, the socialist third-wheel of this race. She spent years cheerfully <a href="https://x.com/i/status/2048915656385744911">telling</a> other people, smaller people, less connected people, that homeless encampments within 10 feet of their child&#8217;s school were perfectly acceptable. The progressive vanguard demands sacrifice, and she was very comfortable demanding it from everyone but herself. Until the encampments moved near her two-million-dollar gated home and her children. Then, suddenly, she found the concept of proximity unacceptable.
The word for this is cowardice. The political word for it is Democrat.
Doug Ellin was perfectly willing to bypass President Donald Trump and vote for the soft-on-crime candidate until his home was robbed. Now he has two frightening watchdogs, security cameras out the wazoo, and a shotgun at the ready.
Apparently, all it takes is a masked intruder, a drug zombie in the front yard, a slap in the face by reality, and one good dose of common sense to wake people up to the horrors of progressive policy. Otherwise, they sit idly behind the fences of their compounds, quite content to let the city rot around them.
Unfortunately, Spencer Pratt still has an uphill battle ahead of him. Though he’s simply promising cleaner streets, safer neighborhoods, and a better quality of life, L.A. progressives aren’t smart enough to see through the fog of woke war. When asked simple questions about Bass’s basura (trash) policies, they go mute, but she is black! So … #blackpride, according to <a href="https://x.com/i/status/2060385677485744469">this</a> young woman.
The same way people are ardent supporters of Graham Platner, the Nazi tattoo guy, Zohran Mamdani, the terror-sympathizer, and Bernie Sanders, the useless leech on the (B)ass of society, they will show up for Karen Bass, a Marxist-style leader who will undoubtedly Make LA Worse Forevermore.
The Left isn&#8217;t voting for a person or a policy. They&#8217;re voting for whoever imbibes from the grievance well, ignorantly abides by collectivist ideology, and cozies up to the soft Marxism that has made every city it touches worse. And they can do so while living behind gates and op-ed pages.
But for most Angelenos, the Entourage reality no longer exists in the City of Demons.
Tuesday will be telling. Los Angeles will discover whether it wants to change that or is content to watch the dream it once sold to the world collapse, one camera at a time.

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