Valuetainment - June 05, 2026


“Five More Months Of EXPOSING Karen Bass” - Spencer Pratt FORCES LA Mayoral Runoff


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00:00:27.820 The first thing I want to get into is the two big races we had yesterday, Brian.
00:00:33.600 We had the L.A. mayoral race, and we had the gubernatorial race, right, the primaries.
00:00:38.220 On the mayoral race, everybody was wondering what was going to happen.
00:00:41.720 For me, I think the biggest superstar that made a big name for herself was Katie Porter.
00:00:45.900 Not for the right reasons, but I think she's got a job at The View.
00:00:48.500 I think she can be a rock star.
00:00:50.700 But if you look at for the governor race, that's where she was at.
00:00:53.680 But for the mayoral race, Spencer Pratt, 30.4%.
00:00:57.800 This is within 63% of the votes.
00:01:00.520 Karen Bass at the lead with 34.8.
00:01:02.900 Nithya Raman 22.3.
00:01:04.600 Then it's the rest of the camp.
00:01:05.820 So if it goes like this, Karen Bass for sure is not getting what she needs,
00:01:10.860 the 51% or something like that.
00:01:12.740 So there won't be anything going on.
00:01:14.480 There is going to be a runoff, and it's going to go until November.
00:01:17.540 And yesterday she tweeted something.
00:01:19.080 She said, I love L.A., and you would think the person that was in the lead
00:01:23.400 would get hundreds of thousands of views and likes.
00:01:26.320 not really it was a thousand likes people could care less about the announcement look you may
00:01:30.440 love LA but we don't love you as much as you think we do and so it'll be interesting to see
00:01:35.220 what happens there and Rob if you have a clip of Spencer Pratt it was a great picture of him and
00:01:39.540 his wife is this him at the end of it when they okay go ahead Rob well obviously God wanted five
00:01:46.440 more months of me exposing all the failures of our mayor so it's gonna be a fun ride I hope she's
00:01:53.520 ready are you ready i mean i was born for this clearly i was born for this clearly okay what do
00:02:01.900 you think brian what do you think are the chances that by the end of it this guy's got a chance of
00:02:05.180 winning expensive by the way he's got the greatest commercials ever he does yes he does and he's been
00:02:09.940 very creative the best thing is that california has been a one uh a one party state forever and
00:02:16.540 And so now that we have a Republican looking like he's going to be in the final two for governor and for mayor, this is fantastic.
00:02:28.940 And that's what I think Republicans really need is a platform to be able to share their views rather than just being shut out in a one-party state.
00:02:39.520 Tom, how do you feel about it?
00:02:41.420 Well, mixed emotions.
00:02:43.520 One, I'm really happy that now there's an alternative candidate and Angelenos aren't going to get snowballed in a primary where someone wins 51.
00:02:54.140 We declare victory and that's it.
00:02:56.160 Now there's going to be, as they say, the jungle primary where there's multiple candidates.
00:03:01.560 That's their word for it.
00:03:02.740 I'm not saying anything derogatory, is now down to two.
00:03:06.980 Now we have a traditional election, left, right, and I like that.
00:03:11.080 What worries me is Raman at 22 percent. Those socialist voters that are behind her are almost certainly going to get behind Bass.
00:03:22.560 So right now, Bass sits on about 53, 54, and it's going to take a decided effort by Spencer Pratt to expose things and to bring that down so that he can be sitting on, you know, 51 percent come Election Day.
00:03:41.080 But I'm glad that now all the drama's over.
00:03:45.560 Raman steps aside.
00:03:47.100 We have two candidates.
00:03:48.900 Let's debate, and let's do many debates.
00:03:51.380 And remember, she and Raman did individual side-by-side debates that excluded Pratt.
00:03:58.740 She can't run anymore, Pat.
00:04:00.300 She can't run.
00:04:01.240 Who can't run anymore?
00:04:02.440 Karen Bass.
00:04:03.360 She can't run from.
00:04:04.940 She and Raman did a side-by-side debate and excluded Spencer Pratt.
00:04:09.860 It's over, baby.
00:04:11.080 The jungle primary is done.
00:04:12.580 You got to get on stage now and debate mano a mano.
00:04:15.560 But here's the reality of it.
00:04:16.580 If we look at it today, every one of these votes here on the bottom,
00:04:21.300 pretty much 80% of it would go to Karen Bass, right?
00:04:24.900 Except maybe Adam Miller.
00:04:26.380 He was an independent, non-no party.
00:04:29.540 That's why I said 80% of it, right?
00:04:31.080 So meaning Nithya is going to go to Karen.
00:04:33.080 So if you put those two together, she's at 57.
00:04:36.280 And then you have the rest of the group.
00:04:37.660 Say you give Spencer a couple points.
00:04:39.960 say Adam Miller's folks go to Spencer Pratt, he's got the lead.
00:04:43.940 But the worst part about this is the more this goes by,
00:04:49.260 the more it hurts Kieran Bass, period, the more.
00:04:52.520 So if you thought he was doing marketing, you know what's happening now?
00:04:54.860 Here's what's going to happen with Spencer Pratt now.
00:04:56.500 When the market sees that you're a real player,
00:05:00.000 now the bigger-name players are going to come in
00:05:02.500 that we're kind of sitting this one out.
00:05:03.680 Oh, so you have the fight?
00:05:05.080 Oh, so you're really going in?
00:05:06.320 Now I'm willing to put some money behind it.
00:05:07.900 Now I'm willing to do an additional event for you.
00:05:09.620 And now I'm willing to do this for you.
00:05:10.840 So it'll be interesting as we're looking at this.
00:05:13.080 And, Humberto, do you have any thoughts on this?
00:05:14.740 Oh, yeah, of course.
00:05:15.860 First of all, we need to understand that these are not the full numbers, right?
00:05:19.600 We have, yeah.
00:05:20.760 It might take another 70 days.
00:05:22.340 It might take a few days.
00:05:24.460 The mayoral race of L.A. is 63% counted.
00:05:28.900 And then the governor race, I think it was 53% on the last update that I seen.
00:05:33.340 We need to think about that it's a primary.
00:05:35.180 you have a 20-point delta, like 20 to 30 points of people that show up.
00:05:40.240 If you look at the primary voters, usually the turnout is anywhere between 30 to 50 percent.
00:05:46.280 If you look at the final election, election day, you get anywhere between 50 and 80 percent turnout in California.
00:05:53.860 So the gap, because if you see the numbers now and you do straight math of how many votes are going to go to a certain candidate,
00:06:00.160 like if everyone's leaning left and it's going to go all to Karen Bass,
00:06:03.340 You have a lot of voters that haven't spoken yet.
00:06:06.100 And I think especially Spencer Pratt has a non-political, common sense message that can get a lot of people out there voting.
00:06:13.720 You know what I mean?
00:06:15.300 So I don't know.
00:06:16.480 I'm very – I think the future looks bright for California.
00:06:19.020 I lived there for a few years, one of the most wonderful states in the country.
00:06:22.660 I had the best time in college there.
00:06:25.340 So I'm very optimistic for what's going to happen.
00:06:28.380 Yeah, that's a great point.
00:06:29.240 And a lot of people think that you have to convert people who are voting
00:06:31.860 Democrats to vote Republican.
00:06:33.120 Not the case.
00:06:34.300 All you really have to do is activate people who have been dormant for years
00:06:37.900 that are Republicans that have given up hope on the concept of a Republican
00:06:40.740 in California.
00:06:42.220 Every single election there ever is, there's more than enough voters that sit
00:06:45.340 out that probably could swing the election in the other direction.
00:06:47.960 So now they can focus in on that, that he's gotten past the first phase of it.
00:06:51.500 And I think that, yeah, the pendulum swung so far in one direction that I
00:06:55.160 think there is hope for it.
00:06:55.880 And I've said since Schwarzenegger got elected, I think he was the last Republican governor, if I'm not mistaken.
00:07:01.580 I think you needed somebody like this who's a celebrity, who has that edge when it comes to it, to have a chance as a Republican.
00:07:08.360 So, yeah, I think that it's exciting to see what potential California could have if they run like a proper state.
00:07:14.860 Yeah, totally agree with that.
00:07:16.640 And at least it's a debate.
00:07:18.900 The jungle primary always ends up giving us two Democrats in California, and then there's no debate.
00:07:24.500 I mean, they debate, but they're saying the same thing.
00:07:28.400 Right.
00:07:29.180 This is good.
00:07:30.180 This is good.
00:07:30.740 This is good that this is taking place.
00:07:32.120 And by the way, the part that makes it exciting, this is an interesting clip to watch, but
00:07:35.740 the part that makes it exciting is this guy is fearless.
00:07:38.780 He's annoying to them.
00:07:40.280 He's not backing down.
00:07:41.460 He's doubling down.
00:07:42.300 He's calling them out.
00:07:43.140 You need somebody like that.
00:07:44.600 Rob, go ahead and play this clip.
00:07:46.340 Because remember, the final piece of the puzzle that we won't know tonight, right, is the
00:07:51.820 late arriving vote by mail.
00:07:53.640 And we're talking about probably like a third of the vote in Los Angeles.
00:07:57.800 We're probably not going to be getting until tomorrow and maybe days to come after tomorrow.
00:08:02.620 The mail can still come in after Election Day.
00:08:05.500 And there's indications and there's certainly a ton of precedent here that that late arriving vote by mail is going to be significantly more Democratic friendly than all of the other vote.
00:08:16.860 Meaning that would be good news for Bass.
00:08:19.280 That would be good news for Rahman.
00:08:21.520 if she's going to come out of tonight behind Pratt, it's a huge if, but if she's going to
00:08:25.600 come out of tonight behind Pratt, well, it's not a huge if at this point, she would then have that
00:08:30.080 opportunity if she's close enough to catch him with that. But that is a 25,000 vote pad there,
00:08:35.320 eight percentage points that Pratt has managed to build with that vote by mail here. And if he can
00:08:40.480 build that a little bit more with that election day vote, you know, when that comes in, that in
00:08:44.940 person polling place vote, if he's able to expand on that lead, it does take you into territory.
00:08:49.980 we start to say, look, even if that late-arriving vote
00:08:52.640 is much more Democratic, has he succeeded in building
00:08:55.560 the kind of pad he needs to finish above Rahman
00:08:58.260 and to get into a run-up, you would say at this point,
00:09:00.720 Bass, those are, if you're...
00:09:01.680 So, that's the mayoral race.
00:09:03.020 The big game is around the corner.
00:09:04.600 They're already talking about the match-ups,
00:09:06.240 who's playing against who.
00:09:09.040 Different people are representing different countries.
00:09:11.480 Obviously, I live in an interesting community
00:09:13.140 where a lot of soccer players live.
00:09:16.020 We knew when they left to go off to Kansas City.
00:09:18.480 Messi's in Kansas City
00:09:20.800 this is going to be the most amazing thing
00:09:23.020 there were so many interesting stats
00:09:24.960 the most ever players
00:09:26.680 about 40 years old playing in the World Cup
00:09:28.660 the youngest player is a 17 year old
00:09:31.100 kid from
00:09:31.540 I think from Mexico if I'm not mistaken
00:09:34.800 there's going to be some interesting stories
00:09:36.120 but we had these hats that we made
00:09:39.060 representing different countries
00:09:40.700 and believe it or not
00:09:43.120 for Iran we had the old
00:09:44.860 Shahan Shahi, Mohammed Reza Shah Palaviz
00:09:47.220 flag right here which is sick
00:09:49.380 and I think there's a couple of those hats
00:09:51.660 left Rob if you want to play this clip go forward
00:10:17.220 We'll be right back.
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