The Los Angeles mayoral race has been solidified for November, with incumbent Mayor Karen Bass facing off against city councilwoman Nithya Raman — and MAGA-aligned reality TV star Spencer Pratt being eliminated.The race was called on Monday evening by CNN and the Associated Press.While the race is nonpartisan, both candidates in the general election will be aligned with the Democratic Party, with Raman being the candidate representing the more progressive wing.Pratt's campaign took off on social media as he swept up a number of right-wing celebrity endorsements and captured the rage Republicans felt at the management of Los Angeles.He held second place in the initial returns on the first few nights, but his apparent lead evaporated as later-collected mail ballots, many of which came from younger voters who held off on deciding until the last minute, broke heavily for Raman.Pratt's elimination from the mayoral race has sparked a wave of MAGA conspiracy theories, with baseless claims from Trump-allied influencers that the late-arriving ballots breaking more pro-Democratic than the earlier-arriving ballots indicates some sort of massive election fraud scheme.
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Ana Navarro, a senior political commentator on CNN, snapped at a former Trump campaign official on Monday night after the official defended the president's attacks against NBC News's Kristen Welker during an interview over the weekend. Welker traveled to Wisconsin to interview President Donald Trump for her Sunday show, "Meet the Press." The interview became combative after Welker challenged Trump to provide evidence for his claim that the 2020 general election was stolen from him. Trump abruptly ended the interview after that, and made some disturbing comments about Welker as he stormed off set. Trump called Welker stupid and crooked, and questioned her integrity, attacks he's levied against other female journalists like CNN's Kaitlan Collins who have asked him tough questions. "You’re a one-sided crooked network,” Trump said to Welker as he stormed off. “Let’s call it quits because I’ve had enough. Thank you, darling. Have a good time."Navarro argued on CNN's "NewsNight" with host Abby Phillip that Trump's comments were part of a "horrible" pattern of behavior toward women. Caroline Sunshine, former deputy communications director for Trump's 2024 campaign, attempted to rebut those claims by arguing that she never witnessed Trump mistreat women while she worked with him.Sunshine also told Navarro to "give [her] a break," which sent Navarro over the edge. "Have you no shame as a woman that we hear him call [women] ugly and piggy and crooked and liars and stupid and bad journalists?" Navarro seethed. "Have you absolutely no solidarity with women? Oh my god, I can't believe you sit here and tell me to give you a break. When in this network, we hear him tell our journalist that she's not fit to be a journalist because she doesn't smile. How dare you tell me to give you a break? Have some shame."
President Donald Trump's supporters are spreading a flurry of conspiracy theories about mail ballots after MAGA-aligned reality star Spencer Pratt was eliminated from the Los Angeles mayoral primary race — but he never had a chance, election data analyst Harry Enten told CNN's Kaitlan Collins on Monday evening."Harry, can you tell us what the numbers actually are and what we are looking at in places like L.A.?" asked Collins.Enten started off by acknowledging "we would rather the system be that the votes were counted faster in California." But the fact remains, he continued, "this is ... the dumbest conspiracy theory I've ever heard."For starters, he said, this wasn't even the outcome the Democratic establishment in L.A. wanted. Incumbent mayor Karen Bass "wanted to face Spencer Pratt, for the simple reason that she would easily beat him. You could look at the runoff polls, right? [City Councilwoman] Nithya Raman actually is ahead of Karen Bass. Spencer Pratt was nearly 20 points behind Karen Bass."Indeed, he noted, net favorability polls show Bass "is greatly unpopular," but that Pratt "might be the one person in the [entirety of] Los Angeles who is running for mayor, who is less popular than she was. He would have been a God-given gift to her if she, in fact, faced him in the runoff." This is further underscored, he said, by the fact that Trump, whom Pratt heavily attached himself to, is down around 55 points in the city."What a surprise ... that a Republican is struggling in a city in which just 15 percent of the registered voters in that city are Republican," concluded Enten. "This isn't a conspiracy. It's simple math." - YouTube www.youtube.com
Former state Attorney General Xavier Becerra (D) and former Fox News host Steve Hilton, a Republican, are projected to advance to the general election for governor of California, according to Decision Desk HQ. Hilton had coalesced GOP support with the help of President Trump’s endorsement, while the Democratic field remained divided over a crowded field…
Republican candidate Steve Hilton won the second of two spots in the California Governor's Primary race on Monday evening, nearly a week after election day. The post BREAKING: Republican Candidate Steve Hilton Advances in California Governor’s Primary Race appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
The California bespoke ballot process is unique in the nation and developed with a previous legal partnership between California politicians and former Attorney General Eric Holder. It has been one week since election day and there are likely many more days of ballot curation ahead. As a consequence, the republican candidate, Steve Hilton, who carries […] The post President Trump Notes California Ballot Curation Likely to Eliminate Steve Hilton appeared first on The Last Refuge.
LOS ANGELES — Mayor Karen Bass and Councilwoman Nithya Raman, both Democrats, advanced to the general election in the city’s mayoral race on Tuesday, setting up a clash between one-time political allies and ending the hopes of reality TV star Spencer Pratt. With roughly 93% of the vote counted, Bass and Raman led a crowded […]
President Donald Trump and his movement of MAGA Republicans are venting their rage online after Republican reality TV star Spencer Pratt lost to two Democrats, Mayor Karen Bass and Councilmember Nithya Raman, in the Los Angeles mayoral race.Because Trump has accused all of the politicians he opposes of cheating, tracing all the way back to the 2016 Republican Iowa caucus, he naturally has accused Bass and Raman of cheating Pratt. MAGA Republicans online are taking notice."I'm at the rare intersection of: - Was rooting for Pratt - Thought he was good for the LA political conversation - Dislike California's election administration laws and policies - But understand how the process works,” posted an X user named Stephen Richer.Similarly Republican pollster Frank Luntz observed "reality TV star Spencer Pratt says he ‘will be done with trying to live in LA’ if he doesn't win the mayoral election. Yesterday, he was surpassed in the Los Angeles mayoral primary for the second run-off spot in November."Another Republican wrote going by Dr. Terry Simpson on X wrote that "I'm a Republican. Los Angeles is roughly 50% Democratic and about 10% Republican. Any candidate who wants to lead this city must win support well beyond the Republican base. Spencer Pratt didn't lose because voters didn't understand he was independent. He lost.”Other Republicans reacted with the outrage that Trump is trying to stir up, even though there is no evidence that anything illicit is occurring in the California election."A 43,000-vote swing just handed Nithya Raman the edge over Spencer Pratt in LA,” an X user who goes by jay plemons posted. “The exact size of the city's homeless population. Ballot harvesting from shelters, universal mail ballots, and late drops made it happen. Coincidence?"Similarly X user Mark Mendlovitz wrote, "The large variance of Pratt and Raman but not Bass should be setting off screaming alarm bells."Even House Speaker Mike Johnson suggested there might be fraud in California, despite the fact that he also acknowledged there is no proof. Instead he cited the absence of evidence as being in itself suspicious.“I'm not saying it's rigged,” Johnson told CNN’s Manu Raju on Monday. “I'm saying it stinks to high heaven. And everybody knows that. Let's remove the appearance of impropriety. Let's have, what a concept, let's have votes on an election the day of the election. That's what many states are able to do. I think California is playing around with this.”After Raju asked Johnson if he had proof the election was improper, he admitted that “I don't — some of these efforts are so diabolical and so far upstream that it is impossible to prove. But I think everybody knows instinctively something is wrong here. And that's a concern. We need people to believe in the integrity of our election system.”Trump, who attempted a coup after he lost the 2020 presidential election to then-Vice President Joe Biden, is reportedly falsely accusing the California election of being stolen as a preparation for denying the results of the 2026 midterms, which are also expected to swing against him.“By baselessly framing Ms. Raman’s rise as a Democratic scam, Mr. Trump extended his long-running project to erode public faith in elections — and gave an unusually clear preview of how he could greet any disappointing results for his party in November, when control of Congress is at stake,” wrote The New York Times' Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman on Monday. “He has been anything but subtle about his desire to limit the ability of Democrats to vote by mail, implying, with no evidence, that simply choosing that widely used means of casting a ballot is inherently suspect.”Swan and Haberman added, “Addressing a gathering of Republican lawmakers in March, he said the way to hold their majority was to pass a strict voter identification law cracking down on mail ballots. ‘It’ll guarantee the midterms,’ he told them, warning that failure would bring ‘big trouble.’”