June 3, 2026

"Obviously, God wanted 5 more months of me exposing all the failures of our mayor, so it's going to be a fun ride. I hope she's ready!"

"Now, I have 5 months to get deep into every community that hasn't heard my message to make them safe. So I'm actually very excited because I felt very rushed. It's a big city and I was not able to talk to as many people as I look forward to talking to. This is the first time since 2005 an incumbent is going to a runoff."

57 comments:

Aggie said...

NYT Sez: Bass: 34.8%; Pratt 30.4%; Ramen 22.3%. Ramen would have to 'find' another 40,000 votes to ease past Pratt. It's going to be very interesting to see what Pratt has to offer, campaign wise.

bagoh20 said...

He'll probably gain more support as Bass runs away from him and her record for the next 5 months, but in the end, he's highly unlikely to overcome the votes she'll pick up when it's a 2-person contest. She will get nearly all the votes that went to other Dems in the primary. Same with the Governors race. The majority of CA voters are mentally incapable of solving their own problems, which they created by choice. They will bravely go down with the ship.

Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ along with $1.8bn of Kleptocracy said...

Karen Bass was on the short list to be Vice President of the United States. Think about that for a moment.

RideSpaceMountain said...

Nothing would make me happier than a Pratt upset victory losing me money on Kalshi, but if I thought Angelenos were smart I wouldn't have placed the bet.

Mary Beth said...

Five more months of great AI videos and hummingbirds.

Aggie said...

Even more interesting, in a way, is he Governor's race. NYT sez:

Hilton: 27.8%; Becerra: 25.4%; Steyer: 19.6%. Unless I've got it wrong, Steyer would have to 'find' 408,000 votes in order to force Hilton into third place. He would have to 'find' 41.6% more votes than he has already collected, in other words, almost half-again more - looks like a big margin, that way. So it would appear that there will be a runoff in the Gubernatorial race, too.

bagoh20 said...

CA wouldn't elect Abraham Lincoln or George Washington if given the chance.

Peachy said...

No matter what - this is what fighting for justice looks like.

Democrats are pure evil.

Yancey Ward said...

I didn't know that the entire race could have ended last night if Bass had gotten over the 50% mark.

mikee said...

The fun thing is that just like Trump did by holding meetings after the fires with the clown car occupants of LA & CA government, this guy is going to be demonstrating the difference between policies meant to solve actual problems for city residents, and the policies of grifters in current positions of authority in LA. People might just notice that spending billions and getting addicted squatters who crap on your streets isn't really something that anyone wants, other than the NGO grant recipients.

RCOCEAN II said...

Typical DNC-run California. Only 63 percent of the vote counted and its 11 AM EST, 8 AM PST. They still have 290,000 votes to count.

bagoh20 said...

Neither of his opponents can simply speak off script like he does. They both have completely locked up, speechless on camera when asked questions. The Dem machine is unmatched at finding these incompetent candidates and often electing them. This level of weakness would have never been accepted 20 years ago. What has happened to the left side of our culture? It simply has no standards.

wendybar said...

Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ along with $1.8bn of Kleptocracy said...
Karen Bass was on the short list to be Vice President of the United States. Think about that for a moment.

6/3/26, 9:32 AM

Scary as hell. God help us, if anybody like her gets that close...Obama was bad enough.

RCOCEAN II said...

Calf Gov race is even more absurd. 57 percent of vote counted. 3.7 million votes to go.

tim maguire said...

Pratt underperformed. I have no hope that he can win--there are too many people who care more about their status as good democrats than about the future of their city--but I was hoping the pollsters would underestimate his strength. A solid first in the primary would have been a nice moral victory before he's inevitably overcome by the machine.

bagoh20 said...

"LA. People might just notice that spending billions and getting addicted squatters who crap on your streets isn't really something that anyone wants..."

If Republicans are against it, they want it.

RCOCEAN II said...

BTW, isn't it weird how if you have 3 relative unknowns running for office, its rare for one to get more than 55 percent? What is it about people that they always split the vote?

That's how Miss Lindsey wins the primary in SC. Two or Three R's always run against him, and instead of getting behind one challenger they ALWAYS split the vote. Even when the other 2-3 have identical conservative positions.

bagoh20 said...

All the criticisms about Pratt being unqualified are just B.S. They elected totally unqualified Bass over a highly successful billionaire builder who managed to keep his own property from burning down right in the middle of the fires. The most qualified person who ever ran for mayor, but he wasn't a Democrat, and he wasn't trained by Cuban communists.

RCOCEAN II said...

BTW, City of LA has 2.2 million voters and it looks like about 750,000 will have voted in this election. So, about 1/3. Crazy low given California has mail-in ballots.

RCOCEAN II said...

Why is being a good firefighter a qualification for mayor?

Original Mike said...

"Ramen would have to 'find' another 40,000 votes to ease past Pratt."

I have no doubt they could do it, but it might be too brazen considering the heightened scrutiny. My guess is they'll let it ride.

Original Mike said...

"Karen Bass was on the short list to be Vice President of the United States. Think about that for a moment."

And you would have voted for that ticket. Think about that.

bagoh20 said...

He got and managed his own resources, built things correctly, knew not to rely on the government, and he spent his life successful building parts of L.A. and dealing with it's wasteful and stupid regulations to do so. He runs huge organizations, with big budgets and lots of employees. That's just the overview. Details of what qualifies him are volumes. He is the perfect person to be a mayor of L.A. The question is what qualifies Bass? There is something, but it's not a good thing for the people.

Original Mike said...

"Typical DNC-run California. Only 63 percent of the vote counted and its 11 AM EST, 8 AM PST. They still have 290,000 votes to count."

Listened to All Things Considered on the ride up north yesterday. Even they called out California for their absurd vote counting duration.

bagoh20 said...

If he loses, I hope says it looks like God isn't done teaching L.A. a lesson.

Original Mike said...

"She will get nearly all the votes that went to other Dems in the primary. Same with the Governors race. The majority of CA voters are mentally incapable of solving their own problems, which they created by choice."

Yeah, neither Pratt nor Hilton have a chance.

bagoh20 said...

Everybody knows why the vote counting takes so long, and it's not just incompetence. Many voters favor their vote being duplicated anyway possible.
If you want to do some vote fraud in L.A., who do you have to worry about? Who is going to come after you as long as you cheat the right direction. There is near zero risk.

bagoh20 said...

I hope the FBI set up some stings in CA. It would be easy fishing.

Peachy said...

democrats who get their intelligence from jimmy kimmel are the base of the idiot party in CA.

Peachy said...

It takes how many weeks to count the votes in Putin's Los Angles?

Peachy said...

the dem's candidate are now all incompetent puppets, Islamic supremist Marxists, and most certainly corrupt communists.

Peachy said...

Bass(D) is qualified by her vagina, her skin color, and her religious adherence to Cuban style authoritarian cruelty.

Achilles said...

Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ along with $1.8bn of Kleptocracy said...
Karen Bass was on the short list to be Vice President of the United States. Think about that for a moment.

And she is smarter than Biden or Harris.

And they are all smarter than you.

Jimmy said...

I have two nephews living in LA. One in Malibu, and one in the Valley.
They grew up in Santa Monica , Venice.
fully vaccinated, reliable Dem voters.
In spite of the obvious decline of LA, and all of S. Calif, they will continue to vote for leftists.
I don't understand how people can live in a literal crap hole and not want to change it.

Chest Rockwell said...

Here's whats going to happen:

Bass is going to clean up the city for the upcoming world cup. Homeless will be moved, streets cleaned. Then Pratt will point out why they simply didn't do this already, as he's been saying he will do. Bass, not being completely stupid, will continue these policies to hold off Pratt in the general. And then will backslide once she's re elected and the Marxist berate her for practicing inequity or something.

Chest Rockwell said...

MY shitlib brother lived in Altadena and had his entire neighborhood burn down. He can't comprehend voting for someone other than a democrat. He's also, hands down, the most ignorant person I know. Knows nothing outside his bubble, and it's usually inaccurate.

narciso said...

They like to bathe in the dung

Aggie said...

No updates to the voting tallies since early this morning. They must be very busy indeed.

Peachy said...

LA probably loses non-leftist individuals and non-leftist families and non-leftist business owners on a constant basis. Only people who stay are Jimmy Kimmel brain dead propaganda eating idiots.

RCOCEAN II said...

California doesn't verify citizenship. In fact, they dont verify anything, and mail out ballots to anyone with a drivers liscense. Motor-voter. You can vote by mail anytime. Its a just blank check for fraud. As Stalin said, it doesn't matter who votes, it matters who counts the votes.

RCOCEAN II said...

They also print ballots in 30 different languages, so no knowledge of English his required. No wonder the D's win every election!

Fred Drinkwater said...

Chest, that cleanup is not going to happen. The bureaucratic and operational barriers are simply too strong. The insiders calculation is simple: the Cup will come and go, but my organization and my rice bowl are forever.

RCOCEAN II said...

Washington has no income tax yet does just fine. other states, Oregon IRC, have no sales tax, and do just fine. california has both. What the hell they do with all their billions is unclear. I've never met anyone from California who said they missed the State Government.

Of course, you can say the same thing about NY state.

Eva Marie said...

Pratt does a reframe: Rather than say I’m going to beat her (picking on a girl) or I’m going to win (typical male ego trip),
he says - this gives me 5 months to expose all the corruption. That’s good stuff.

narciso said...

They will only do for xi citizens dont count

Bushman of the Kohlrabi said...

“Think about that for a moment”

As far as I can tell, she’s little different from all of the current crop of Democrats running for major office.

narciso said...

Enough with the niceties companera bass needs ti be run to ground

narciso said...

Shes qualified to destroy a city

Original Mike said...

"California doesn't verify citizenship."

Didn't they make it illegal to verify citizenship?

Eva Marie said...

I also thought it was clever for Pratt to start saying a few days before the election - no need for a run off, I’m going to win.
I think that created an expectation on the part of voters that he would do well. So the Democrats couldn’t fudge the numbers too badly.

mccullough said...

This is an impressive showing. The ads for his campaign are more entertaining than the stuff on Netflix.

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

When I read this post aloud to Mrs. MJB she blurted “He’s a Mini-Trump!” Which is of course what the socialists want to call him too. But it’s true that his answers are so spontaneous and transparent that he’s refreshing.

And that’s what They fear. They really fear the Trump like excitement in Pratt’s campaign. And he was rushed the last few weeks. He literally has time to get facetime with residents of EVERY neighborhood in LA. Trump proved that stale “democracies” have no defense against popular populism.

Paul Zrimsek said...

The glacial pace of their vote counting is one of a number of facts overlooked by fans of electing the President by national popular vote.

Rabel said...

Unfortunately, the Californians aren't going to kick out the Communists and the Iranians aren't going to kick out the Islamists.

Maybe the Brits will kick out the Starmers.

stlcdr said...

I don't know who he is, but I don't like him.

Known Unknown said...

"In spite of the obvious decline of LA, and all of S. Calif, they will continue to vote for leftists.
I don't understand how people can live in a literal crap hole and not want to change it."

Because the opposite is simply too mean.
Mean to kick illegals out
Mean to force homeless into treatment
Mean to treat impoverished souls like criminals when they break the law.

They just want to be nice, you see. They even have yard signs all about their niceness.

Known Unknown said...

"Chest, that cleanup is not going to happen. The bureaucratic and operational barriers are simply too strong. The insiders calculation is simple: the Cup will come and go, but my organization and my rice bowl are forever."

It's Ikiru all the way around.

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