By
Ed Kilgore,
political columnist for Intelligencer since 2015
Spencer Pratt soaking up the hype.
In retrospect, there was no real world in which Spencer Pratt was going to be elected mayor of Los Angeles. Polls consistently showed him finishing second or third in last week’s nonpartisan top-two primary. If he had finished second and made the general election, polls suggested he would have been crushed by whichever Democrat he was matched against (incumbent Karen Bass or progressive challenger Nithya Raman). And that makes sense: Pratt, the reality-TV villain, was a Republican running a MAGA-style campaign in a profoundly Democratic city, where his most prominent supporter, Donald Trump, is widely loathed.
