Reality Star Rejects Hollywood Machine in LA Mayor Race

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• Spencer Pratt is polling at 22% in the LA mayoral race, trailing incumbent Karen Bass (26%) and Nithya Raman (25%)
• Pratt’s campaign has raised millions, outpacing his Democratic opponents despite being a Republican in deep-blue Los Angeles
• The former reality TV star is running on a platform focused on addressing homelessness, crime, and leadership failures during the 2025 wildfires

Former reality television personality Spencer Pratt is charting an unconventional path in his bid for Los Angeles mayor, explicitly rejecting the celebrity endorsement game that typically dominates Hollywood politics. During a Thursday appearance on “Gutfeld!” Pratt made clear he’s not interested in star power backing his campaign.

“I actually don’t want celebrities to come out and endorse me,” Pratt said. “I don’t want anybody to endorse me except for the moms and the animal lovers in LA. That’s my entire vote.”

“I’m cool if no celebrity ever endorses me. I actually love when the celebrities attack me because then I’m like, oh, I am doing so well.”

Pratt’s rejection of Hollywood’s typical political machinery comes as his campaign continues to surge in fundraising, pulling in millions of dollars and outpacing the war chests of his competitors, incumbent Mayor Karen Bass and progressive challenger Nithya Raman. While celebrities like Dennis Quaid, Paris Hilton, Lakers owner Jeanie Buss, Katharine McPhee, and David Foster have publicly supported the mayoral hopeful, Pratt maintains his focus is elsewhere.

The Republican candidate’s appeal transcends traditional party lines in the deep-blue California city. “All” of his supporters are Democrats, Pratt told host Greg Gutfeld, arguing his campaign is based on “common sense” rather than partisan politics.

“My campaign now, how I identify, besides being the common sense American, is the ‘look around’ candidate,” Pratt said.

“You look around and see with your own eyes what I’m saying, and it’s true. And that’s why I’m gonna to win, because my opponents just lie, and they’ve had 10 years combined that they’ve created everything that they are looking around and seeing. So I would say, no more of this.”

Pratt’s message resonates with everyday Angelenos grappling with the city’s mounting crises. He painted a vivid picture of the challenges facing regular residents navigating LA’s deteriorating streets.

“This is my favorite thing the internet says. They’re like, he’s so big on the internet, but is he big in the streets? Yes, the people I’m surging with are the people having to step over the naked drug addicts and step into human poop to get their $20 matcha,” he said. “Those are the the people that I’m surging the moms across Los Angeles who have to use their strollers around fentanyl, needles, and naked drug-addict zombies with machetes that maybe will chop a limb off.”

Recent polling from UC Berkeley and the Los Angeles Times shows Bass with 26% support among likely voters, Raman at 25%, and Pratt at 22%. The numbers represent a remarkable showing for a candidate who announced his bid just months ago, following the devastating January 2025 wildfires that destroyed his $3.8 million Pacific Palisades home.

Pratt has built his campaign on aggressive criticism of LA’s Democratic leadership, particularly targeting Bass and Raman over their handling of both the wildfire response and the city’s ongoing homelessness crisis. He’s accused Bass of leadership failures, including her absence during the fires and what he characterizes as budget mismanagement that left the city vulnerable.

“Yeah, there’s definitely lunatics. Their houses didn’t burn down, but they could have been saved by the U.S. Forest Service, who came in to save the day, Chief Bobby Garcia on the 8th,” he said. “These people have convinced themselves that Palisades burned down because of climate change, and these imaginary hurricane winds that did not exist. So, for them, they go, ‘Oh, it’s the winds and it was the climate change. That’s what it was. It wasn’t that Mayor Bass was drinking in Ghana and defunded the firefighters by the 17 million.'”

Wind speeds during the January 2025 fires frequently reached 40 mph, with the highest measured gusts at 86 mph, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.

On homelessness, Pratt advocates for a treatment-focused approach that diverges sharply from the current administration’s policies. He describes the crisis as a “horror movie” and promises immediate action if elected.

“We’re going to get all your tax money that these two [Bass and Raman] have been stealing to put these naked drug addict zombies – that are going number two and number one in front of your houses, your businesses, maybe trying to machete you or stab you – we’re gonna get them mandatory medical treatment. Not an empty bed. They need help to get off fentanyl and super meth,” he said.

The primary election for Los Angeles mayor will be held June 2. Pratt’s campaign represents a direct challenge to the progressive policies that have dominated Los Angeles politics for over a decade, with voters set to decide whether a political outsider focused on “common sense” solutions can break through in America’s second-largest city.

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