Washington Examiner columnist Guy Benson criticized Los Angeles and expressed cautious optimism about independent candidate Spencer Pratt’s mayoral bid.“Not to douse the hope with cold water, the two remaining candidates are both left and lefter,” Benson said on Fox Business’s The Evening Edit Monday.
Host Elizabeth MacDonald said Pratt is narrowly leading in a California Post poll.
Benson said a first-place win for Pratt would be great for his campaign, but that the chances are narrow.
He argued that “the idea that a bunch of communists and socialists are all of a sudden going to jump and vote for Spencer Pratt” in November’s general election, if he makes it that far, is unlikely.
“I think the likelihood is a consolidation of those two electorates, those two bases, which would make it difficult for a non-Democrat, someone not associated with team blue, to win in a city that [is] blue,” Benson said.
