Los Angeles City Council member Nitya Raman has overtaken former reality TV star Spencer Pratt in the Los Angeles mayoral race, putting her in a runoff with Mayor Karen Bass.
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Brody Jenner was joined by his former “The Hills” co-star, Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt.
Spencer Pratt, the creator of MTV’s legendary reality show “The Hills” in the early 2000s, has fallen to third place in the Los Angeles mayoral race after a new drop in votes on June 7th.
Once branded as a reality TV villain, Pratt rebuilt his public image as a conservative outsider in the race to unseat Mayor Karen Bass, only to be unseated by progressive City Council member Nitya Raman.
According to election results released by the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk on June 7, Raman currently has 27.12% of the vote and 196,198 votes, while Pratt has 26.69% of the vote and 193,085 votes. Incumbent Basu received 34.68% of the total votes, or 250,871 votes, giving him a significant advantage.
When votes were counted on June 6, Raman had a lead of 26.21% to Pratt’s 27.32%.
The latest information was announced on the same day that President Donald Trump walked out of an interview with “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker about the tense debate over the security of California’s elections, which aired on June 7.
Mr. Pratt has also sought to cast doubt on the security of Los Angeles elections by promoting a theory linking the vote count to a March web article by the California Housing Partnership about the city’s homelessness rate.
After Welker first said, “Republicans are doing well in California,” President Trump accused California of a “rigged” election in the state’s June 2 primary. Pratt is a conservative, but Trump-backed gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton is in second place, ahead of billionaire Tom Steyer.
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Raman, who was first elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 2020, used “Unwritten,” the famous theme song from the movie “The Hills” popularized by singer Natasha Bedingfield, in his closing campaign ad. Her victory in 2020 was the first time in 17 years that a challenger defeated an incumbent.
The former Bass ally won re-election in 2024. Earlier this year, he made headlines when he entered the race on the last possible day, February 7th.
She said Mr. Bass had “failed to lead this city” and called Mr. Pratt a “MAGA-driven right-wing extremist who channeled people’s dissatisfaction with this city into fear, anger, and hatred.”
Mr. Pratt, a political novice, is using his campaign to unseat the former congressman as a trigger for his continued disappointment with Mr. Bass’s response to last year’s Los Angeles wildfires, which left him homeless. Pratt also took a sharp look at the city’s homeless problem in her plea to local mothers.
The Los Angeles mayoral race and the race to replace California Governor Gavin Newsom, who is expected to run for president in 2028, have given the country a closer look at the “jungle primary.” That means the top two candidates advance in the nation’s most populous state, regardless of party.
National Republicans have been trumpeting days of vote counting in Los Angeles, the nation’s second-most populous city after New York City, where the city’s chaotic mayoral election on November 4 last year led to victory for Democratic Socialist Zoran Mamdani.
Contributor: Paris Barazza
