Los Angeles Establishment Doesn't Know What to Do With Spencer Pratt

But he has a shot. In the last election, Karen Bass only won by 9 points. That's a big margin of victory, but it shows that the appetite for something different is great, even when the Democrats hold all the cards. 

Karen Bass is a master of what she does best: running a political machine and using it to grift off of taxpayers, but like many politicians in deep Blue areas, she really doesn't understand ordinary voters or how to appeal to them. She runs a machine. She's an insider. Her entire way of thinking appeals only to insiders. 

After years of open air drug markets and homeless addicts terrorizing the MacArthur Park area, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is working overtime to make sure the area is safe and clean for the community.

Kidding, she removed a bench, patted herself on the back, and forced a… https://t.co/1J9uoOnt1C pic.twitter.com/Wt0ttD6nwQ

— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) May 18, 2026

As Pratt has gained steam, she has been flailing around, trying to convince people that she shares their concerns and is working to address them. When confronted by the dangerous drug-filled sewer that MacArthur Park has become, she manages to address it by removing a bus stop. This is her proof that she is on the job, and for the political machine, it is. 

Because the job is to keep the problem going, which keeps the $$$ flowing to NGOs. That is Bass' shtick. 

OMG. Karen Bass is now trying to say that Spencer Pratt's brilliant AI commercials are "Dangerous" and "Violent" 😂

Of course there's no pushback from the legacy reporter and the brain-dead Los Angeles voters will fall for this hook line and sinker! pic.twitter.com/VX92Nxbcla

— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) May 13, 2026

Bass is using the old "dangerous" Republican accusations, as Nithya Raman, the DSA socialist in the race, is dragging out the tired MAGA accusations. 

It's what they have. For campaigning, it is the ONLY thing they have. And, perhaps, that is enough, since Bass has a political machine that can deliver massive numbers of votes without ever having to address voters' concerns. 

Donald Trump is about to endorse Spencer.

Tonight is the fundraising deadline, and we need to raise more to prove that LA doesn't want a MAGA Republican mayor who lives in the Bel Air hotel.

Donate NOW https://t.co/ONhw6wg7On https://t.co/aWhKYtDttH

— Nithya Raman (@nithyavraman) May 17, 2026

Ironically, while Raman and Bass are running against each other, they are all part of the same machine. It's just that Raman wants to be the new mafia boss, displacing the old, tired one. And she had a shot—she was the frontrunner until Spencer Pratt blew everything up by winning the sole mayoral debate. 

Sole, because after Pratt ran circles around them, Raman and Bass pulled out of subsequent debates. 

Karen Bass and Nithya Raman are conspiring to subvert the LA Mayor election. They are a threat to democracy. pic.twitter.com/1W16rtj0RL

— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) May 18, 2026

As with other mafia organizations, whatever internal strife gets put aside when there is a threat to the organization as a whole, and we are seeing that happen in Los Angeles. Spencer Pratt is a danger not just to Bass or Raman but to the entire grift machine. He must be stopped, no matter the cost. 

If the campaign were the main determinant of who would win the election, Pratt would win in a walk, even in Los Angeles. 

But it isn't. Bass will start out with at least 40% of the vote, because the machine will deliver the votes regardless of ordinary citizens' preferences. City, State, and federal workers will turn out for her; the homeless will magically turn out for her; and the NGOs, who live off government largess, will turn out. 

Pratt will have to win the overwhelming majority of ordinary citizens, and that is a tall order.