LA Mayoral Candidate Nithya Raman Takes a Victory Lap; Gets the Smackdown She Deserves
“Voters didn’t give you anything. Voters put you in third place. Fraud put you in second place.”
Is City Councilwoman and L.A. Mayoral Candidate Nithya Raman the only person who doesn’t realize how dubious her path to the second runoff spot appears to the average American? Or is she just pretending because what else can she really do?
Either way, after the Decision Desk projected on Monday that Raman would advance to the general election, she took to X to thank her supporters “who knocked [on] doors, made calls, sent texts, donated, and opened their homes for events across the city” for giving her the opportunity to continue her campaign. She was just so “incredibly honored.”
She invited Angelenos to join her in the “fight for a healthier, safer, more affordable, and more joyful Los Angeles.”
I’m incredibly honored that voters have given us the opportunity to advance to the general election for Mayor of Los Angeles.
To the thousands of supporters who knocked doors, made calls, sent texts, donated, and opened their homes for events across the city, and to everyone…
— Nithya Raman (@nithyavraman) June 9, 2026
Those of us who have followed the race closely have watched with mounting frustration as Spencer Pratt’s initial 8.1-point lead over Raman slowly eroded until it became a 2.8-point deficit.
To say the least, Raman’s post did not receive a warm welcome. As negative replies flooded the thread and easily outnumbered likes, Raman found herself staring at an old-fashioned ratio.
One X user posted a chart of the cumulative vote totals over the first four days of counting. The most dramatic — and, I would argue improbable, if not impossible — shift in Raman’s fortunes came between June 3, the morning after the primary, and June 4-5. While incumbent Mayor Karen Bass’s vote total rose from 185,000 to 215,868, or 16.7% over that interval, and Pratt’s from 130,000 to 174,260, or 34%, Raman’s total surged from 71,000 to 153,588, a whopping 116% increase!
The caption on the post read: “No Nithya, cheating the vote is not how you win an HONEST election. You didn’t even win your own council district (CD4). You can never tell me otherwise.”
No Nithya, cheating the vote is not how you win an HONEST election. You didn’t even win your own council district (CD4).
You can never tell me otherwise. pic.twitter.com/c14cHN2tKc
— Corbin Williams (@corbinwilliams) June 9, 2026
A second person wrote, “Deep down Nithya, you know you don’t actually have any legitimate support of the voters. Your own district didn’t even give you the votes to advance.” To which a user replied, “Democrats don’t have a ‘deep down.'”
Deep down Nithya, you know you don’t actually have any legitimate support of the voters.
Your own district didn’t even give you the votes to advance. pic.twitter.com/hstFkBjMA3
— Vote Spencer Pratt (@VotePratt) June 9, 2026
Another astutely noted:
The voters had nothing to do with it.
— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) June 9, 2026
Journalist Daniel Greenfield wrote:
Voters didn’t give you anything
Voters put you in third place
Fraud put you in second place
— Daniel Greenfield – “Hang Together or Separately” (@Sultanknish) June 9, 2026
Here are several more responses:
Why did you not thank the real entity that put you ahead of the winner, Spencer Pratt? That would be the criminal Democrat voter fraud and election theft machine. The organization that places people like Bass and you in positions to further the destruction of our society.
— Joe Bauers (@JoeBauers14) June 10, 2026
You forgot to thank the inhabitants of skid row who all voted for you without knowing it.
— Billboard Chris 🌎 (@BillboardChris) June 9, 2026
The scathing responses kept on coming. If Raman bothered to read them, she would quickly discover how many people view her so-called victory.
Angelenos watched Pratt build a commanding lead on election night, only to see that advantage steadily evaporate as ballot counting dragged on for days. Raman may choose to celebrate her “advancement to the general election,” but the replies to her post reveal a deeper problem: a significant number of voters will always view her as an illegitimate candidate. One thing is for sure: Raman’s victory lap landed very differently than she likely anticipated.
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Move along. Nothing to see here. To democrats voter fraud is just part of the normal democratic process. They’ve just gotten more sophisticated about it. institutionalized it. and no longer care that they are obviously cheating. It’s all in the name of “Muh democracy”.
Besides she is from a third world country where all voters have an ID, unlike here. We don’t have enough socialists apparently so we have to import them.
“…she is from a third world country where all voters have an ID, unlike here.”
That’s why she is a politician here, not India. She knows she can’t win an honest election.
Would not be surprised if she wins. Pulling for her at this point.
At the risk of being understood, how better to effectuate change than to bring in another of the likes of Mamdani, Wilson, Johnson, Wu, etc.
Bass not much better, but Raman has the chance to really drive the message home.
Election fraud should be a capital offense.
Quickly, publicly, so everyone can see.
There is no crime worse than robbing a man of his liberty, which is exactly what election fraud is.
Change my mind…
Which is their argument of “Disenfranchisement”. Isn’t this the very definition?
Rigging elections is how Democrats defend Democracy.
(when did ]democracy’ become a grab bag of insanely destructive lunacy escaped from academia?)
And that’s why they renamed it “fortification.”
Pointing out that if Twitter was still in the original corrupt hands, posting *anything* that cast doubt on the legitimacy of this fraudulent election would get you instabanned.
her votes are gained the same way
dei is “awarded” …….legalized cheating
She conceded and literally cried because she knew she’d lost.
It’s truly pathetic that she thinks anybody buys this charade.
I’m beginning to feel that voting in any election should be restricted to tax paying property owners.
Or, if one doesn’t own property, They must have an actual tax burden. I got a big refund from overpayment, but still ended up paying the feds a lot in 2025. That should be the threshold. No income or no taxable income, no vote.
Democrats cheat to win. When they lose they scream fraud and rig the system so it doesn’t happen again.
That she got the most mail in ballots by a long shot doesn’t make sense as Bass won the election. If Raman noodlehead is so popular how did she not get more votes than Bass on election night? Her mail in ballot numbers make no sense.
She’s worse than Kamala. Never thought to see that.
The shift in votes was highly anomalous statistically. One could argue that Democrats tended to vote at the last minute, but that hardly explains how so many votes broke for Raman rather than Bass; One has to posit extreme lemming-like behavior among Democrats in following talking heads’ advice that since Bass was going to win anyway, they needed to cast their last-minute votes for Raman to keep Pratt out of the general election. Or maybe there are more looney-left voters in Los Angeles than anyone imagined. If you assert that the statistical anomaly makes any result not involving ballot stuffing or other forms of cheating implausible, you may convince people who understand the mathematics, but you won’t get anywhere in court because as far as I know statistical inference is not the kind of evidence that is required to get past the motion to dismiss.
There is evidence on X and other places with actual hidden video of the vote harvesting from homeless who are paid money and/or drugs to “vote” for specific candidates. I hope the feds figure out a way to audit some of this. When third-world dictatorships with largely symbolic elections have more secure voting that California, it raises a lot of questions.
Until Ca. becomes a Republican controlled state, I don’t trust any of the elections !
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