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California’s Tuesday primary election races captured the attention of the country, and as vote-counting continues in the Golden State, the battle for the Los Angeles mayorship appears teed up for quite the November showdown.
As of Wednesday morning, incumbent Mayor Karen Bass, who is endorsed by California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom, had secured enough votes to place her on the November ballot, with a new and exciting candidate close behind: Spencer Pratt. With neither candidate so far exceeding a 50 percent vote threshold, Pratt is likely positioned to advance to a November runoff against Bass.
Pratt told reporters as the results rolled in, “Obviously, God wanted five more months of me exposing all the failures of our mayor, so it’s gonna be a fun ride – I hope she’s ready.”
Pratt, once known primarily as the star antagonist of the hit 2000s reality television series, “The Hills,” threw his hat into the proverbial ring, vowing to run against Bass – a mayor who was reportedly traveling in Ghana when the catastrophic Palisades Fires in California erupted. Consequently, the Palisades blaze also destroyed Spencer Pratt’s home.
According to Realtor.com, Pratt and his wife, Heidi Montag, along with their two young children, have been unable to afford to rebuild, and still do not have a permanent place to live.
“Unfortunately for rebuilding, we just don’t have the finances. We barely could pay the mortgage on that house,” Montag told Gold Derby. “We spent our whole careers to put a down payment on it.”
This tragedy and ongoing struggle sparked Pratt’s decision to run for LA mayor. Fed up with a city that is largely unkempt, unclean, and unaffordable, Pratt has waged a social media guerrilla warfare information campaign, pushing viral AI-generated commercials and talking directly to potential Angeleno voters online.
The strategy has worked. Pratt is not politically aligned with either major party. “I’m not a political person — I’m somebody with basic expectations of our tax money and our quality of living,” Pratt told celebrity blogger Perez Hilton recently, via MS News.
He added of Angelenos, “They just want to go on TikTok, have their Wi-Fi working, and be able to not step in human poop or a fentanyl needle on the walk to get their matcha. That’s who I represent.”