Spencer Pratt is unlikely to win the Los Angeles mayoral race, given the partisan lean of the city. But his chances continue to rise, as evidenced by how terrified Karen Bass is of Pratt’s candidacy and how she is floundering trying to fend him off.
Pratt has the undeniable momentum in the race, dominating the debate between the three candidates and rising in the polls from 10% in March to 22% this month, pushing progressive City Councilwoman Nithya Raman into third. Pratt’s momentum is leaving Bass to turn to hysterics, claiming “what’s worrying me” is that Pratt’s campaign is “now taking on a violent turn.” She said Pratt is hateful, demonizing people, provoking unstable people to jeopardize people’s safety.
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How so? One Pratt ad created using artificial intelligence shows people throwing tomatoes at Bass. Or, to hear Bass tell it, “the throwing of the tomatoes, which look like blood.” Don’t laugh. She’s serious.
If only Bass were serious about Los Angeles’s problems, she wouldn’t be having to pretend that Pratt is trying to harm her with a tomato-armed mob. Pratt is only running because Bass’s incompetence allowed his house to burn down with hundreds of others in the Los Angeles fires, and Bass’s incompetence has prevented Los Angeles from rebuilding. She has then turned around and painted Pratt as the one victimizing the fire victims because he is “exploiting” their grief and anger. You know, the grief and anger they feel from Bass allowing their houses to burn down and preventing them from being rebuilt.
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Bass is essentially telling voters that actually doing anything to fix Los Angeles is a superhuman effort. This is almost literally what she has said. Talking about Pratt depicting himself as Superman, Bass said, “Oftentimes we look for someone superhuman to save us, but the reality is: It never happens.” But it doesn’t take Superman to rebuild burned-down homes or get homeless drug addicts off the streets. It just takes some willpower, something Pratt has in spades and that Bass, at least when it comes to improving the quality of life in the city, lacks.
Pratt is showing that Los Angeles can have a mayor who actually wants to fix problems, rather than just funneling money to liberal NGOs and labor unions and calling it a day. The possibility that voters go for that scares Bass, and it scares Democrats nationally, who recognize that Pratt’s success as mayor could kill the monopoly Democrats have on power in major cities. That is why Bass, with no record to run on, is leaning on outlandish rhetoric about Pratt’s rhetoric, and why Pratt is starting to fall in the crosshairs of national Democrats.