Spencer PrattThe LA Mayor's bid appears to be coming to an end.
Several outlets reported on Monday, June 8, that Pratt's competitor Nithya Raman he will officially step forward to face the Mayor Karen Bass november november.
“I'm very happy that the voters have given us the opportunity to advance to the general election for Mayor of Los Angeles,” said Raman, 44. Us Weekly in a statement on Monday. “To the thousands of supporters who knocked, called, texted, donated, and opened their homes to events across the city, and to everyone who made this moment possible: thank you, from the bottom of my heart.”
Raman and Pratt, 44, are vying for a second-place finish in the June 2 primary, which would see one of them advance to the November general election against Mayor Bass, 72. (Under California law, the top two vote-getters advance to the general election unless one candidate receives more than 50 percent of the primary vote.)
Pratt's second-place lead on election night was eroded as mail-in ballots were received and counted last week. I The Associated Press and other outlets called the race for Raman second place on Monday, as he received 28.6% to Pratt's 25.8%. (Bass took the lead with 34.3 percent of the vote, having already advanced to the November election last week.)
“Now our fight for a healthier, safer, more affordable and more enjoyable Los Angeles continues,” Raman said in a statement Monday. “For too long, City Hall has prioritized giving political benefits to powerful interests who fund elections. Meanwhile, working people are paying the price in higher rents, depleted services, and a city that no longer works for them.”
He concluded by saying, “If you are as frustrated by this situation as I am, I hope you will join our movement to build a city that works for everyone.”
Us Weekly has reached out to the Pratt campaign for comment.
Spencer Pratt; Nithya Raman
Getty Images (2); Dimitrios Kambouris; Justin SullivanEarlier on Monday, Pratt tried to calm the growing anger among his supporters by suggesting that his campaign staff were not giving up.
“Folks, we're facing half a percent difference, hundreds of thousands of outstanding votes remain, and LA officials have given us the next 3 weeks to count! Let's git-r-dun,” he tweeted.
The president Donald Trump – who endorsed Pratt last month – responded to Pratt's decline in the LA mayoral race by saying without evidence that the race was fixed. (Pratt, a registered Republican, has resisted direct alignment with Trump, 79, insisting in May that “there's no R next to my name, no D next to my name.” He ran for mayor as a non-partisan activist.)
Spencer Pratt has hit back at a new attack ad on his Los Angeles mayoral campaign. On Wednesday, April 29, the former Hills star released a campaign ad shot outside the homes of two of his opponents in the upcoming mayoral election: incumbent Mayor Karen Bass and Los Angeles City Council Member Nithya Raman. […]
“It's impossible for Spencer Pratt to lose the LA race after the big lead he had. Third World Nation. Swing Election,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday.
Election observers in California predicted before the June 2 primary that it could take days or weeks to determine vote totals because of the process of counting incoming ballots.
