Valuetainment - June 05, 2026


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


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The L.A. Mayoral race is now down to two candidates in the race for Governor and Mayor of Los Angeles. Who will win the primary and who will come in second? We break down the results and give our predictions.

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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. 1.00
00:00:41.720 For me, I think the biggest superstar that made a big name for herself was Katie Porter. 0.99
00:00:45.900 Not for the right reasons, but I think she's got a job at The View. 0.99
00:00:48.500 I think she can be a rock star. 1.00
00:00:50.700 But if you look at for the governor race, that's where she was at. 0.89
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. 1.00
00:01:05.820 So if it goes like this, Karen Bass for sure is not getting what she needs, 0.74
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. 0.98
00:04:00.300 She can't run.
00:04:01.240 Who can't run anymore? 1.00
00:04:02.440 Karen Bass. 1.00
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. 0.94
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.
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00:09:11.480 Obviously, I live in an interesting community
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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
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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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