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Can Spencer Pratt Pull Off the Upset in L.A. Mayor Primary?

Can Spencer Pratt Pull Off the Upset in L.A. Mayor Primary?

As she was winding up the crowd at a union campaign event this weekend, two-time Los Angeles mayoral hopeful Karen Bass went for a very specific analogy. “Do we choose a TV reality star villain?” she asked rhetorically. “We don’t need villains in this city.” The reference of course was to Spencer Pratt’s career on The Hills, but it already showed she was playing the election on his terms: Pratt had gone viral with an AI ad he popularized showing him as Batman fighting off assorted Democratic figures ruled by a Joker-painted Bass. The Charlie Curran piece was one of several that cast Pratt as a Hollywood hero; in another, he wields a lightsaber as a Jedi fighting Bass, an instrument of the Empire.  Bass was trying to flip the tables on her opponent as the villain he claimed to be fighting. But casting the race in such stark Hollywood terms played into his narrative of cinematic good vs. evil in the first place, reminding voters of the silver-screen legend around him (and distracting from his total lack …

Scooter Braun Talks Spencer Pratt, Taylor Swift, Sydney Sweeney

Scooter Braun Talks Spencer Pratt, Taylor Swift, Sydney Sweeney

Scooter Braun gave a rare interview in a sit down with The Free Press’ Second Thought podcast published on Thursday, where the music executive weighed in on a wide range of topics from the strength of Spencer Pratt’s mayoral run, to the monopoly allegations against Live Nation and Ticketmaster to the controversy from his now-infamous decision to purchase Taylor Swift’s masters when he bought Big Machine Records back in 2019. The Free Press’s Suzy Weiss started the interview by immediately asking if he’d be voting for Pratt, to which Braun said he doesn’t tell people who he votes for but called himself a moderate who votes both ways. He said it is “very possible” he could win the election. “What I really do appreciate about what Spencer’s doing is he is bringing a lot of things to light that no one’s brought to light,” Braun said. “I think he’s speaking for a lot of people who are very frustrated and want common sense and want people to speak plainly and address certain things. It’s very …

2026 Midterms: Races to Watch Featuring Jon Ossoff, Spencer Pratt, Abdul El-Sayed, James Talarico, Ken Paxton

2026 Midterms: Races to Watch Featuring Jon Ossoff, Spencer Pratt, Abdul El-Sayed, James Talarico, Ken Paxton

Talarico, meanwhile, is a 36-year-old seminarian with the bedside manner of a Sunday school teacher. Republicans have sought to cast him as an effete extremist. Trump keeps saying “he wants six genders” and that he’s a vegan, a crime punishable by political death in the Lone Star state. Talarico, who is not a vegan, has cooked up a pithy riposte to this attack: “I’m an eighth-generation Texan. I’ve been eating barbecue since before Ken Paxton’s first indictment.” The midterm elections are upon us. Democrats are looking to win back the House and just maybe the Senate, promising to use that power to stop Trump. For Republicans, despite victories in a bare-knuckle redistricting war, the House already looks lost. They’re just hoping to hold on to the upper chamber of Congress. A year ago it would have been unthinkable for Republicans to lose the Senate, but as Trump wages an unpopular war with Iran while gas prices climb (“peanuts,” Trump says) and economic anxieties mount (“hoax,” Trump explains), his polls keep sinking. Republicans are panicking. Trump …

The Hills star Spencer Pratt claims Leonardo DiCaprio and Jamie Foxx have privately supported his campaign for mayor of LA

The Hills star Spencer Pratt claims Leonardo DiCaprio and Jamie Foxx have privately supported his campaign for mayor of LA

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Spencer Pratt has named two major celebrities he claims backed his Los Angeles mayoral campaign just days before voters head to the polls in the city’s primary election. As Pratt, 42, looks to build momentum ahead of the June 2 vote, the former Hills star has hit the campaign trail with fundraisers, rallies and a flurry of media appearances. Speaking to US Weekly, Pratt revealed some of the Hollywood heavyweights whose support he claims to have received. “Usually I don’t name-drop, but I had two of my favorite people ever support me,” he said. “Leonardo DiCaprio and Jamie Foxx both said, ‘Please, Mr. Mayor, we want these streets safe again.’ If their reps try to deny this happened, I have multiple witnesses. It was an out-of-body experience.” The Independent understands that DiCaprio has not publicly or privately endorsed any candidate, and …

Jimmy Kimmel Targets Spencer Pratt, Yet Admits “This City is a Mess”

Jimmy Kimmel Targets Spencer Pratt, Yet Admits “This City is a Mess”

Spencer Pratt will probably be thrilled: The would-be L.A. mayor has finally drawn the ire of Jimmy Kimmel. The ABC late-night host targeted the former reality TV star turned political candidate in his Wednesday night Jimmy Kimmel Live! monologue. Kimmel laid into Pratt for his lack of leadership experience amid his face-off against incumbent Karen Bass and City Council member Nithya Raman. Yet Kimmel started off, surprisingly enough, by fully agreeing with several of Pratt’s criticisms of Los Angeles and the city’s current leadership. “Let’s be honest, this city is a mess,” Kimmel said. “That became obvious during the [Pacific Palisades] fires. But the people running this city, when you say, ‘This city is a mess,’ they go, ‘No, actually, it isn’t and we’re doing a lot.’ And we look around and go, ‘I’m not seeing it.’ Then they go, ‘Oh, it’s there, things are looking up.’ And this makes people who live here upset, especially people whose homes and neighborhoods burned down, who are trying to run businesses with people who need help sleeping …

MTV star Spencer Pratt gaining in Los Angeles mayoral race against Karen Bass

MTV star Spencer Pratt gaining in Los Angeles mayoral race against Karen Bass

Spencer Pratt’s campaign for Los Angeles mayor began as a celebrity long shot. Days before Tuesday’s primary, the former MTV reality star is threatening to force incumbent Mayor Karen Bass into a November runoff. Pratt, best known for “The Hills,” is polling at 22% among likely voters in a new UC Berkeley-Los Angeles Times poll, just behind Bass at 26% and City Councilmember Nithya Raman at 25%. Pratt and Raman each gained eight percentage points since March, according to the poll. Los Angeles mayoral elections are nonpartisan. If no candidate wins more than 50% in Tuesday’s primary, the top two finishers advance to a November runoff. In a crowded field, that means Pratt does not need to win outright to upend the race — he only needs to finish ahead of Raman. Although the race is nonpartisan, Pratt is a registered Republican and has drawn attention from conservative media and Trump-aligned figures. He has rejected the “MAGA Republican” label and framed his campaign as a referendum on City Hall competence after the Pacific Palisades fire …

Poll shows Bass, Raman and Pratt in tight race for mayor

Poll shows Bass, Raman and Pratt in tight race for mayor

Karen Bass, Nithya Raman and Spencer Pratt are locked in a tight battle for Los Angeles mayor, according to a poll released Thursday, with incumbent Bass holding what pollsters called a statistically insignificant lead ahead of Tuesday’s primary. Bass had 26% support from likely voters, followed by City Councilmember Raman with 25% support, according to the poll by the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies, which was co-sponsored by The Times. Pratt, the former reality TV personality making his first bid for elected office, had support from 22% of the likely voters surveyed. Up until this latest poll, Bass had enjoyed a substantial lead over her challengers, with analysts predicting she would garner enough votes to make a Nov. 3 runoff with either Raman or Pratt. The latest survey suggests any of the three could advance. “You’ve got three very different candidates, each with very different constituencies, all within the margin of error. It’s going to boil down to turnout,” said Mark DiCamillo, the director of Berkeley IGS polls. The poll also showed that in …

Spencer Pratt Really Thinks He Can Be the Next Mayor of Los Angeles

Spencer Pratt Really Thinks He Can Be the Next Mayor of Los Angeles

Councilmember Nithya Raman initially looked poised to capitalize on that anger. The progressive candidate, who in previous elections received endorsements from the Democratic Socialists of America, entered the race with considerable momentum. Pundits began asking: Is Raman Los Angeles’ Zohran Mamdani? But Raman has struggled to consolidate support from the city’s progressive electorate while also expanding beyond it. Her uneven debate performance left an opening for Pratt, and a recent appearance with left-wing streamer Hasan Piker didn’t do much to move the needle in her direction. “If I’m not gonna get elected mayor because I never apologized to LC, I’ll take that. So you can put that in bold… people can die on the streets because LC got paid millions because I boosted our show and I took the fall as the full villain, and she got to be the poor damsel in distress.” Pratt, meanwhile, has proven surprisingly adept at converting frustration toward the status quo into a political coalition. His biggest base of support is on the Westside and in the Hollywood Hills, …

Can Spencer Pratt Win? | ZeroHedge

Can Spencer Pratt Win? | ZeroHedge

Authored by Mike McDaniel Via AmericanThinker.com, The Los Angeles mayoral race provides illuminates Democrat party thinking. There is non-politician, normal American Spencer Pratt running against Communist, Castro-admiring, current Mayor and black woman, Karen Bass, and Indian – the country – woman, and LA Council member, Nithya Raman. Graphic: X Post The only debate thus far was a self-inflicted disaster for Bass and Raman, and Bass is refusing to debate again. Asked–yes or no—whether illegal aliens should vote, Pratt answered “no,” and Bass and Raman, looking like cockroaches caught in the open when the kitchen lights came on, sputtered versions of: “well, it depends…” Pratt is the law and order, clean out the insanely violent homeless, no disease-infested discarded needles, no human feces everywhere, sane, fiscally responsible candidate. Bass and Raman are California democrats, which is to say the opposite of Pratt and sane Californians, many of whom have already fled to red states, leaving only people likely to vote for Bass, the woman who can’t imagine any need for rational anti-wildfire policies, like keeping reservoirs filled …