Pratt thought he had it locked.
Now, the ballots he can’t see are the ones that could end him.
As late-count mail-ins pour in, socialist Nithya Raman is erasing his lead by the hour, while Trump screams
“stolen” and the DOJ quietly circles. California’s glacial vote count is turning into a political crime sce… Continues…
Spencer Pratt’s early second-place cushion in the Los Angeles mayoral primary is shrinking with every new
batch of late-arriving ballots. While he still leads Nithya Raman by tens of thousands of votes, her surge in the latest tabulation shows where the momentum lies.
In California’s jungle primary, that matters more than one good election night headline.
The same slow, law-driven counting process that state officials defend as careful and inclusive is fueling a national firestorm.
Donald Trump is calling the extended tally “BIG cheating,” claiming Democrats are trying to steal both the governor’s race and
the L.A. mayoral runoff slot from right-leaning candidates, while the Justice Department quietly reviews the chaos. Between Gavin Newsom’s video defenses and
Republican cries of fraud, every update from county registrars now lands like a shockwave, leaving both campaigns — and the country — bracing for an outcome that could arrive weeks too late to calm anyone.
