{"id":351830,"date":"2026-06-08T17:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/351830\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T17:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:36:08","slug":"republicans-blame-fraud-for-spencer-pratt-losing-l-a-mayoral-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/351830\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Blame Fraud for Spencer Pratt Losing L.A. Mayoral Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFox News viewers and right-wing social media addicts are positively shocked that Spencer Pratt<\/a> \u2014 the MAGA aligned former reality TV star attempting \u2014 is on his way to being eliminated from the Los Angeles<\/a> mayoral primary, despite the city\u2019s overwhelmingly Democratic electorate. Pratt currently trails incumbent Mayor Karen Bass and LA City Council member Nithya Raman in a primary out of which only two candidates will advance..\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tConservative news outlets and talking heads have spent the past few weeks trying to convince people that Pratt, a former star on The Hills and tabloid staple<\/a>, was a shoe-in for the Los Angeles mayoral general election by an unbeatable margin. This is not the case. In Calirfornia\u2019s open primary system, which sees candidates of all parties run in a single pool with the top two advancing to the general, polling consistently showed Pratt was locked in a tight race for second with Raman, with late surveys giving Raman the edge. Raman surged in front of Pratt over the weekend as ballots continue to be counted.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd if you can\u2019t beat them, accuse them of cheating.<\/p>\n

\n\tCalifornia is notorious for its slow ballot tabulation process. While it does take most states weeks to produce official, certified tallies of their results, most can declare winners on Election Night. In California, a state which allows voters to mail their ballots or drop them off on Election Day, even declaring a winner can take an inordinate amount of time. In an already blue state, California\u2019s last minute mail-in and drop-off voters tend to skew heavily blue, but to Republicans \u2014 and Pratt himself \u2014 the Republican candidate\u2019s drop to third is a sign of shenanigans.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe election denier in chief, President Donald Trump, wrote Monday on Truth Social<\/a> that there was \u201cno way this could have happened. Rigged Election!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNot possible for Spencer Pratt to have lost the L.A. runoffs after the big lead he had. 3rd World Nation. Rigged Elections! Now they\u2019ll be working on great guy Steve Hilton. Won\u2019t have results for, possibly, TWO WEEKS, according to officials,\u201d Trump wrote in another post, referencing Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton, who is currently polling in second<\/a> behind Democrat Xavier Becerra in the state primary.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tOver the weekend, Trump stormed out<\/a> of an interview with NBC\u2019s Meet The Press after anchor Kristen Welker pressed him to provide evidence for his claims that the 2020 election was rigged against him. His years-long, and false, insistence that he actually defeated Joe Biden in a landslide has led Republicans to regularly allege fraud in their own failed election efforts, Pratt included.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cA net swing of more than 43,000 votes since Tuesday,\u201d Pratt wrote Sunday night on X<\/a>. \u201c43,000, huh? Where have I seen that number before,\u201d he added, including a screenshot of a news article that there are approximately 43,000 homeless people in Los Angeles on any given night. It\u2019s unclear what Pratt is suggesting, and in any case, the homeless would still have a right to vote if they satisfy the requirements set out by the law.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tElon Musk, who poured millions into Trump\u2019s 2024 campaign, has issued a barrage of posts questioning the validity of the election, which has not even been officially called for Raman. \u201cThe reason ID is banned in California (and New York) elections is to enable large-scale fraud. When you combine no ID and mail-in voting, fraud is de facto legalized,\u201d he wrote. Voter ID is not \u201cbanned\u201d in California. First-time voters are asked to verify their identity via an array of official state identification cards or proof of residency. There is no widespread evidence of systemic voter fraud in any state of federal election.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tRight-wing content creator Benny Johnson, who lives in Florida, wrote<\/a> that \u201cafter 5 days of statistically impossible ballot drops, Nithya Raman has pulled ahead of Spencer Pratt. The DOJ needs to keep investigating. This can\u2019t be allowed to keep happening in America. California\u2019s third world \u2018election systems\u2019 need to be banned.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAndrew Kolvet, spokesman for Turning Point USA, described Raman<\/a> as a \u201cwoman with absolutely zero following, no groundswell of support, and no name ID [who] absolutely killed it in mail-in voting in Los Angeles.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFree PSA: If you don\u2019t want us to assume cheating, maybe make it a little less obvious,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tRaman has been a figure in Los Angeles politics since 2019, and is a well-known campaigner within her city. Outraged right wingers, many of whom do not live or vote in Los Angeles, seemed to have confused Pratt\u2019s viral AI-slop ads<\/a> and Fox News appearances with an actual tidal wave of support for their preferred candidate.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe story of the Los Angeles mayoral race should be that instead of incumbent Mayor Karen Bass winning a clean sweep of the field, two potential challengers managed to pull large swaths of the electorate away from her. She is now likely to face a formidable challenge from a more left-leaning city councilmember, instead of a virtually guaranteed reelection should Pratt have advanced to the general.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBut wherever the Democratic Party is hiding their \u201cwin this election immediately\u201d vote-rigging ray gun, one would think they\u2019d be more inclined to use it in toss up elections and not deep-blue California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fox News viewers and right-wing social media addicts are positively shocked that Spencer Pratt \u2014 the MAGA aligned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[62854,5795,28492,48,52,51,47,50,49,43125],"class_list":["post-351830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-2026-midterms","tag-controversy","tag-election-fraud","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-spencer-pratt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}