Pratt Concedes LA Mayor Race With a Blistering Broadside — and a Warning
“So Karen, Nithia, ask yourself: is it possible that one of your employees may have a recording of you doing or saying something that would force you to resign in disgrace?”
Los Angeles mayoral primary candidate Spencer Pratt, whose highly effective and inimitable campaign ads often generated national headlines, conceded the race on Friday with the same combative flair that defined his campaign.
As readers may recall, on the morning after the primary, with 63% of ballots counted, Pratt held a commanding 8.1-point lead over City Councilwoman Nithya Raman, 30.4% to 22.3%. He appeared firmly on track to advance to the general election and challenge incumbent Mayor Karen Bass, who finished first.
Yet as the vote counting dragged on, Pratt’s lead not only disappeared but reversed entirely. Raman ultimately claimed the pivotal second-place position, completing a dramatic turnaround that many of us found impossible to reconcile with the initial returns.
Pratt began his monologue, titled “Saving LA – Phase III,” saying he didn’t enter the race for political power, but to:
expose this corrupt machine, and nothing has changed. You enjoy your worthless meetings in City Hall. … I’m gonna be lighting you up every single day, and now I don’t have to worry about offending CNN viewers. I don’t have a campaign loss hamstringing me now. It’s war. It’s zero hour for Los Angeles. Angelenos are now stuck with two morons responsible for all their problems, and they have to choose between dumb and dumber.
He cited the election results as an example of “the machine protecting the machine.”
Pratt painted a dire picture of L.A.’s future, warning that the city will continue to deteriorate no matter which of the “corrupt communists” remaining in the race wins in November.
You have no idea how many major developers, hoteliers, business owners, entrepreneurs have been texting me saying they’re packing up and leaving town. More of your favorite restaurants will be shuttering. That means less tax revenue. That means the city has to cut services. More potholes, less firefighters, less police patrols, more criminals, more drug addicts terrorizing your communities. You have no idea how bad things are about to get for this city.
Most notably, Pratt claimed to have information that, if revealed, could lead to the resignation of one of the remaining candidates after taking office.
“So Karen, Nithia, ask yourself: is it possible that one of your employees may have a recording of you doing or saying something that would force you to resign in disgrace?”
My guess is that he has a recording of Karen Bass that he was planning to use during the general election.
“So Karen, Nithia, ask yourself: is it possible that one of your employees may have a recording of you doing or saying something that would force you to resign and disgrace?” pic.twitter.com/lNQk8PP3EW
— Heather Champion (@winningatmylife) June 12, 2026
At the end of the video, Pratt declares, “If you want to stop me—” before the footage cuts to an enraged character from the television series Ozark shouting, “You’re gonna have to f***ing kill me!”
Finally, the word “WAR” is splashed across the screen, superimposed on an image of President Theodore Roosevelt laughing.
Well, now we’re flipping the script. I want all of you awake at night, sweating and worried about 5 am, FBI blazers busting the door, breaking open your office, because I assure you they’re coming. You think your election was gonna stop me? “If you want to stop me … you’re gonna have to f***king kill me.
this is the most BAD ASS thing ive seen in a while…. stay strapped or get clapped as us here in florida say! expose em all! burn it to the ground.
— . (@alsnjtfltal) June 12, 2026
Love him or hate him, Pratt succeeded in becoming the most memorable figure in the race. Rather than fading quietly into the background, he used his final campaign message to promise an even more aggressive role as a critic of City Hall in the months and years ahead.
Many of us believe that Pratt was robbed of his chance to compete in the general election. He clearly believes that, too. He is justifiably angry, and anger is a powerful emotion.
Here is Pratt’s video in full:
Saving LA – Phase III pic.twitter.com/9n9wv1tonZ
— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) June 12, 2026
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“Angelenos are now stuck with two morons responsible for all their problems, and they have to choose between dumb and dumber.”
But how else could LA voters ever achieve representative government?
Some voters, yes…. but this was a cheat. Full on cheat.
The mail in ballot system, rammed into law by democrats during the scamdemic, is doing what it was intended to do: solidify democrat power and control; it’s VERY third world, wouldn’t you say?
I love LA, not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcADqxnQA_4
That’s the spirit.
Um, Pratt better watch his six. Trying to “f**king kill” opponents is now a sanctioned Democrat strategy.
Forget it Spence. It’s Los Angeles.
Nithya Raman didn’t even win her own district. Funny how the rest of LA voted for her in such high numbers.
2 Marxists enter, 1 Marxists leaves
Well, it will be interesting to see how these two Marxists now compete for public support, each trying to prove who is the more committed Marxist in the election.
Bass has an edge because there are plenty of neighborhoods left that she hasn’t set fire to yet.
Two Democrats tag teamed Pratt to preserve the Party’s control over LA and its ongoing looting. As has already been mentioned, if Pratt continues, he will have an accident.
And here I thought that all the dystopian novels I was forced to read in high school were cautionary tales; turns out that some took them as inspiration for their life’s work.
Pratt may well be far more dangerous to TPTB as a jilted candidate, a man robbed of his home, and now his vote. There’s no doubt that the witch’s brew of incompetence and malfeasance that caused the destruction of Pacific Palisades is the same incompetence and malfeasance that allowed an avowed communist to cheat Pratt of a successful campaign and retain her position as mayor of Los Angeles.
What does he now have to lose?
That, my friends, is how a good man becomes a dangerous man.
Even if he had won, he would have had to fire EVERYONE and invite federal auditors in to help exterminate all the rodents and cockroaches. Then the courts would have stepped in.
In other words, he would have been set up to fail.
Like much of Europe, glad I visited years ago, shall not return.
Now it can be said …
https://x.com/spencerpratt/status/2066197429469212773
A huge write-in campaign ought to spoil things nicely.
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