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."

100 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™️ 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.

Peachy said...

STARMER IS ATTEMPTING TO BAN BEING ANGRY WITH HIM.

john mosby said...

bag: "What has happened to the left side of our culture? It simply has no standards."

Clock-radio concept. When you need someone with some retail political ability AND total loyalty to the Party, it narrows down the pool quite a bit. And the loyalty bit is more important. So they wind up with a calendar-radio instead. Or a clock-windup music box would be a better analogy, maybe.

Trump and Pratt on the other hand are KLH hi-fis with no clock, because the time is always NOW! CC, JSM

RideSpaceMountain said...

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

He's the guy LA doesn't deserve, but he is the one it needs right now. So they'll hate him, but he can take it...their dark spite.

RideSpaceMountain said...

@Peachy, Brits need to ban Starmer's ability to breath oxygen.

Eva Marie said...

“Unfortunately, the Californians aren't going to kick out the Communists”
Pratt is very good when he explains communism.
What impresses me about him is that he doesn’t hide from any topic. And I’ve never seen him stumped. Not that he knows all the answers but he’s thought through the issues. He’s led a thinking life.
Like Trump he has a female side to him. You could see him completely at ease discussing fashion - or boob jobs as he did Maher and yet never condescending or smirk-y.
The Democrats should be worried. Win or lose, damage will be done.

Big Mike said...

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.


Yup. That’s Bill Maher’s problem too — and a lot of others who regularly call out Democrats for their insane excesses. If you aren’t prepared ever to vote for a Republican, no matter how close to the center the candidate might be, then the Democrats as a party will continue in their extremist trajectory. Like a flatworm in a biology class, Democrats only respond to the pain (of losing elections) as a stimulus.

john mosby said...

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

In Los Angeles, votes count you! CC, JSM

wildswan said...

According to explanations given last night there are three kinds of voters in California - early mail-in which arrives before election day; election day in person; mail-in which is legal although it arrives after election day. And these three kinds of votes have different characteristics. Early mail-in is more Dem - it was giving Bass 38% and Pratt 30% when I went to bed. Election day is more Republican. When I got up Bass had 34% and Pratt 30%. mail-in which legal though it arrives late is very heavily Democratic. Each of these divisions has about 1/3 of the vote. So LA has about 1/3 of the vote left which will probably be way out of line with the other two vote portions which differ from each other by single digits. This final vote portion is Democratic by the amount needed to make the Democrat win. So that if 40,000 votes are needed to knock Pratt out, the vote is likely to be that amount by a strange coincidence. California late mail-in always has been strangely coincidental in favoring the Dems - up to this year.
But this year there will be massive scrutiny. So will the coincidence occur? There are penalties for non-coincidental coincidences. Moreover, if California's unusual late voting pattern is revealed to have a non-coincidental basis, that will cast a light backward on the 2020 election. An unwelcome light. A glaring light.
So inside each late-mail-in-ballot box, a lever has been pressed. Is the California coincidence alive or dead inside those boxes? The Schrodinger election.

john mosby said...

If Trump really wanted to stir up some shit, he could unleash Harmeet to crawl all over the Cali ballot counting operation while it's going on. No standing/laches/mootness stuff, just the Civil Rights Div doing its thing under VRA. CC, JSM

bagoh20 said...

Tom Steyer has spent $500 million on two campaigns — and lost both times.

Democrats are really bad with money.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/live-blog/primary-elections-ca-nj-trump-iran-war-live-updates-rcna347951/rcrd110908?canonicalCard=true

Aggie said...

The NYT is still not showing any updates to the vote tallies from last night.

JAORE said...

In very round numbers the leading Republican candidates (mayor and Governor) got 30% of the vote. Does anyone think that in the general a large majority of those voting for a (D) not leading will switch to (R)?
Of course not. It is, relatively, encouraging to see the relative effectiveness of a good, conservative campaign this time. But considering the crap hole California, and still smoldering crap hole LA is.... We B Doomed.

Eva Marie said...

One woman’s opinion:
https://x.com/Milajoy/status/2062109934544982386/video/1?s=46

Skeptical Voter said...

Bass will clean up the City of Los Angeles for the World Cup? In your dreams--she's incapable of and not really interested in cleaning up the city.

Original Mike said...

"California late mail-in always has been strangely coincidental in favoring the Dems - up to this year.
But this year there will be massive scrutiny. So will the coincidence occur?"


My initial thought was they have what they need, a democrat in the final, so why push their luck with the usual heavy after-election-day democrat votes. But then I thought, won't a less-democrat late vote look ahistorically suspicious?

bagoh20 said...

Dems are way past caring if they get caught for anything. In the last decade they have done things, unethical, unprecedented and illegal to control who gets elected. It never slowed them down when it was noticed or decried. They just deny it, ignore everyone, and keep marching on, and do the next thing while you watch them, and we let them get away with it every time. Why would they ever consider losing an election by being honest.

Eva Marie said...

Nithya Raman breaks down and cries at her loss:
https://x.com/ericldaugh/status/2062208261068091795?s=46

Iman said...

Raman will never be Top.

Steve said...

Nowhere near CA, but I would like to see Pratt win just to disturb the status quo.

narciso said...

Ah noodles ramen i missed thar

Tina Trent said...

Pratt did underperform, but he exudes confidence. He's young. He caught the politics bug. He spoke calmly and well of his wife's breasts to a sleazy, pervy, loaded Bill Maher. He could have his choice of races in a non-insane place.

Original Mike said...

"Nithya Raman breaks down and cries at her loss:
https://x.com/ericldaugh/status/2062208261068091795?s=46"


She lost?
I don't think so.
She doesn't think so.

Peachy said...

dems are all top sauron eyeball in my book.

Lazarus said...
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Lazarus said...

We're used to would-be politicians shopping around for states and districts that could elect them. Nithya Raman is the first politician who went country shopping. But if LA continues as it has been, soon everyone will be so poor that they'll have to make to with Ramen.

Peachy said...

everyone with a brain should be voting for him. the brain dead propagandized are uninformed. even if he keeps one promise, it's better than all the left's non-stop treachery.

Jamie said...

If you want to do some vote fraud in L.A., who do you have to worry about?

We have very good friends in Seattle whom I've called "progressives" herein in the past, but I think I'll have to change that to "liberal Democrats" based on some conversations we've had with them about Seattle's misguided policies (and the fact that sometimes they're not policies at all but rather rhetorical fig leaves to cover what they actually do, like periodically shipping the Unhoused down south, well out of the tourist areas, to make them work their way back up to the big city again). ANYway. After the 2020 election, we expressed our doubts about the verifiability of the suddenly massive number of mail-in ballots nationwide, including in our complaints the fact that most European countries don't allow mail-in voting because it's so insecure.

Their response was that Washington has had 100% mail-in balloting for a couple of decades and "had never had a problem." Funny how that seems to be the case when you get what you want...

In that same conversation, they told us that their college daughter, a legal resident of Washington but living in LA for college, had received ballots in both states - "but don't worry, she threw away the California one." And also that they, doing a 2-year work stint in Michigan during election season while still legal residents of Washington, had received ballots at both addresses - "but don't worry, their other daughter, who was living in their legal domicile in Seattle, threw away the ballots in their names that they received there."

But there's no problem with mail-in ballots! The honor system is plenty good for this purpose, don't we all think?

Dave Begley said...

Spencer Pratt is now a distant third in the race.

Rigged. Stolen.

Dave Begley said...

Correction: Third on Kalshi.

Someone always knows.

Original Mike said...

"Funny how that seems to be the case when you get what you want..."

And when you don't look.

Bob B said...

bagoh20 said...
CA wouldn't elect Abraham Lincoln or George Washington if given the chance.

Both have been certified brain dead for over a century. Brain dead are often supported by the Democrats, so George Washington could be elected. (Not Lincoln, as he is a Republican.)

Original Mike said...

"had never had a problem."

That's what my lefty mother says; there is no voter fraud. And I know where she gets it; from the lefty media she listens to incessantly: MSNBC, The View, CBS News, … . There will never be a reordering in this country until the left's stranglehold on the media is broken.

Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...

OG Mike writes: "California late mail-in always has been strangely coincidental in favoring the Dems - up to this year."

Almost half of California's voters vote-by-mail, meaning that any ballot post-marked as of yesterday is a valid ballot. There are almost certainly millions of ballots still uncounted, and the bulk of those are going to be in the most populous areas of the state, which lean Democratic. It will take a few weeks to have a final result. I would not be surprised if Hilton drops to third when all is said and done.

Our country has probably spent over $100 million in the past decade at this point looking for various forms of "vote fraud". It rarely happens.

If this election is anything like previous ones, you will see that more than half of the eligible voters stayed home. Every ballot can be tied back to a specific registered voter. The overwhelming majority of people aren't going to risk their freedom either casting a ballot in a primary, where millions of votes determine the election outcome, and where the election choices are often uninspiring.

William50 said...

I don't think God could care any less about the election for Mayor of Los Angeles.

Jamie said...

The overwhelming majority of people aren't going to risk their freedom

I don't understand what you mean.

RCOCEAN II said...

Our country has probably spent over $100 million in the past decade at this point looking for various forms of "vote fraud". It rarely happens.

What a lie.

RCOCEAN II said...

You could spent $1 billion dollars looking for fraud in California and if the D's were in charge of the Investigation they'd find zero voter fraud. Unless it was by a Republican.

RCOCEAN II said...

Washington State was notorious for "Finding" mail-in ballots that gave the Democrats the win in several state-wide races. IRC, one time King county found mail-ballots in someone's trunk. All for the Democrat. Good thing they found that car, eh?

RCOCEAN II said...

The "audit" of Arizona election in 2020 found thousand of ballots cast by non-residents, dead people, people with addresses that didn't exist, etc.

Motor voter + mail-in ballots = fraud waiting to happen. But the Senate Republicans don't care. They wont even pass a bill requiring proof of citizenship in Federal elections. The SAVE act is DOA, because of Thune.

Original Mike said...

Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...
OG Mike writes: "California late mail-in always has been strangely coincidental in favoring the Dems - up to this year."


You need better reading comprehension. I didn't say that. I certainly agree with the first clause, though I wouldn't have said "strangely", but I'm not sure what wildswan meant with the second clause.

Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...

Voter fraud only exists in the feverish minds of MAGA.

In 2017, Trump established the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity. The commission was created to study election integrity issues, voter registration processes, and alleged vulnerabilities to fraud (following Trump's claims of widespread illegal voting in 2016).
Chair: Mike Pence.
Vice Chair: Kris Kobach (Kansas Secretary of State at the time)

No evidence of widespread voter fraud was produced by the commission.

Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...

@ OG Mike: You're correct --my mistake. It appears you cut and pasted a comment from another commenter and dovetailed it into your comment.

Original Mike said...

"It appears you cut and pasted a comment from another commenter and dovetailed it into your comment."

The quote marks AND italics should have been your first (and second) clue. That was the intent.

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