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Karen Bass has been running for reelection since 2024. Spencer Pratt has been running since January. In the last four weeks, he raised nearly as much money as she has in the entire race.

The numbers from the latest campaign finance disclosures are hard for the Democrats to spin. Pratt pulled in $2.7 million in a single reporting period — from nearly 8,500 donors, with 328 of them maxing out at the legal limit. He enters the final stretch before the June 2 primary with over $3 million in the bank, a war chest that now rivals an incumbent mayor with a full party apparatus behind her.

Pratt’s platform couldn’t be simpler: over 40,000 people living on LA’s streets aren’t homeless — they’re dangerous drug addicts, and he’s the only candidate willing to say so. Pratt proposes mandatory treatment for fentanyl and supermeth zombies, zero encampments, and prefab federal facilities that can be built in three days. And while Karen Bass was on a plane to Africa when the Palisades burned, Spencer Pratt was watching his own house turn to ash — in a neighborhood where the 117-million-gallon reservoir had been sitting empty for nearly a year and the hydrants ran dry while homes burned.

 

Spencer Pratt is gaining momentum for the simple reason that he’s for the people, and the Democrats are for the supermeth zombies.

 

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