{"id":11127,"date":"2026-06-11T14:13:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T14:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=11127"},"modified":"2026-06-11T14:13:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T14:13:54","slug":"%f0%9f%a4%a6%e2%99%82%ef%b8%8fpratt-leads-raman-for-final-run-off-spot-as-ballots-still-being-counted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=11127","title":{"rendered":"\ud83e\udd26\u200d\u2642\ufe0fPratt Leads Raman For Final Run-Off Spot As Ballots Still Being Counted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Karen Bass thought this race was already hers. Instead, Los Angeles just sent a political earthquake. As votes crawl in from the June 2 primary, a reality TV star\u2013turned\u2013Republican insurgent, Spencer Pratt, is suddenly within striking distance, shattering decades of Democratic certainty and accusing the sitting mayor of breaking election law on cam\u2026 Continues\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles, long considered safely in Democratic hands, is now staring at a runoff that feels less like routine politics and more like a referendum on the city\u2019s unraveling. Karen Bass leads, but not decisively. Spencer Pratt, dismissed early as a novelty, is now the vessel for anger over crime, homelessness, addiction, wildfires, and a business climate many say is suffocating the city\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<p>Pratt\u2019s supporters argue that his blunt style and outsider status cut through years of polished promises and worsening streets. His formal complaint accusing Bass of illegal electioneering near a ballot box only deepens the sense that the old rules are breaking down, and that powerful incumbents no longer fear them. Bass\u2019s team calls it a stunt. But the numbers, and the mood, say something else: Los Angeles is no longer certain what kind of leader it wants\u2014or which party it trusts to save it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Karen Bass thought this race was already hers. Instead, Los Angeles just sent a political earthquake. As votes crawl in from the June 2 primary, a reality TV star\u2013turned\u2013Republican &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11129,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11127\/revisions\/11129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}