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Who Won and Who Lost On Primary Election Day and What Comes Next

Delusions, fantasies, lies, and the ultimate reality of what Angelenos chose to support on Tuesday's primary election day.

10:58 AM PDT on June 5, 2026

Nithya Raman, Karen Bass, and Spencer Pratt depicted standing next to each other in a composite photo we made

Nithya Raman, Karen Bass, and Spencer Pratt.

(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.