(Editor's note: As of this story's publication, final election results are still expected. We expect more next week and will be staying on the final results.)
Watch any of the AI videos that the Spencer Pratt campaign boosted on social media to attract voters during his run for L.A. mayor, and you’ll see the same delusion repeated over and over again.
It’s not the dweeby, Disney adult-esque plots that depict Pratt as a superhero or a Jedi that will solve all of the city’s problems, but the fantasy depicted towards the end of all of the videos that a multi-ethnic coalition of Angelenos (usually depicted in stereotypical ways, like a Latino construction worker character that seems to appear over and over again) would join in a coalition to oust L.A. Mayor Karen Bass, a liberal Democrat with a past as a leftist community activist, and elect Pratt, a MAGA Republican, to the mayor’s office.
While it’s still relatively early, and there are lots of votes left to count, if you look at the votes that have been tallied, Pratt’s hope for a multi-ethnic coalition of pissed-off Angelenos has not materialized, because it was a fantasy.
As much as people are legitimately pissed off at Bass’ middling mayorship, a majority of Angelenos, from Black and Brown South L.A. to East L.A. and up into the working class areas of the San Fernando Valley, and yes, even large portion of West L.A., would rather, it seems, trust the devil they know than a MAGA, nostalgia and shlockmeister slop merchant like Pratt.