Something smells in the city of Los Angeles, and it isn’t the streets.

The mayoral primary election took place last Tuesday, and the expectation was that Spencer Pratt was heading for a second place finish after election night. Nithya Raman even gave a concession speech that night when the numbers began to come in.

Nithya Raman walked out to her campaign funeral in literal tears last night

She can't hide her disappointment at the red wave that showed out in LA Mayoral race

Angelenos are taking their city back from the grip of incompetence. pic.twitter.com/8q1ybdgQmG

— Danny De Urbina (@dannydeurbina) June 3, 2026

However, as the votes continued to be counted, it seemed like Gavin Newsom’s “break glass in case of emergency” measure was underway in both the gubernatorial race and in the Los Angeles mayoral race. The vote counts that were being released were heavily favoring Nithya Raman. Isn’t that just AMAZING, how she is gaining those votes so quickly?

On Sunday afternoon, even President Trump called out California’s snail pace of a vote count, before walking out on NBC’s Kristen Welker.

It's funny to watch "journalists" like Kristen Welker pretend that taking over a week to tell you who won an election is just "how they vote in California."

That doesn't happen in literally any developed nation in the world or any state in America besides California. pic.twitter.com/LlT4FUJJgu

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) June 7, 2026

And then by Sunday evening, Raman was in second place, with Decision Desk officially declaring her the second place winner who would advance in the primary. And even if these counts are hand-to-God accurate, it looks shady and corrupt.

Now, could the vote count still change? Yes. The problem is that in California, ballot “curing” (which allows voters to go back and “fix” their ballots after the election by verifying signatures) is completely legal, and the counting doesn’t even have to be FINISHED until July!

Los Angeles County continues to count ballots postmarked on or before Election Day and received by June 9, drawing the attention of the Republican National Committee. County officials must complete final official results by July 2, and the secretary of state will certify results by July 10.

California’s vote count often extends beyond Election Day because every active registered voter receives a mail ballot, ballots postmarked by Election Day may arrive up to seven days later, and election workers must verify signatures and process late-arriving ballots.

That extended amount of time between Election Day and certifying the results gives the impression that shenanigans can happen. And California’s laws do nothing to dissuade people of that.

I don’t think the L.A. election was stolen. What’s happening is legal.

The problem is that what’s legal in California is gross third-worldist slop that would make a dictator blush.

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) June 8, 2026

For his part, Spencer Pratt is… curious… about the current numbers.
https://twitter.com/spencerpratt/status/2063784193688056310
There are more ballots left to be counted, but the odds that they break for Pratt in enough numbers to retake second place? Doubtful. So, what happens now? Will Spencer Pratt walk away from Los Angeles, as he said he would, or will he try and stage a write-in campaign (a much more difficult endeavor)? Karen Bass has already decided that she is running against Nithya Raman, so the race is between the communist who stood by while the city burned, and the even further left loon. In other words, the status quo within Los Angeles will not change, or it will get worse. There are no promises to improve, clean up, or make the city safer. And both candidates will undoubtedly want more money for whatever social program they want to create this time around.

Was Spencer Pratt, realistically, going to be elected mayor of Los Angeles? Probably not, but he had a shot of making the runoff, and the Democrats certainly treated him as a threat to their power structure. It just really depended on just how angry the voters were, and how big the turnout was. Even if this vote is as clean and pure as the driven snow, the public at large who would generally scoff at stories of election fraud and stolen votes has no answer for what is happening in California. It seems that the majority of voters in Los Angeles are willing to prove the definition of insanity yet again. What will it take for them to change their minds? More than fires burning down large parts of the city and the mayor being out of the country when it happened, apparently.

Featured image: original Victory Girls art by Darleen Click