Tim Miller

I'm just going to read for you a couple of headlines.

Heidi Montag, Spencer Pratt's wife, is already L.A.

's first lady.

The revenge of the California Republicans inside Spencer Pratt's viral video machine.

Will Spencer suck on the basura?

Will L.A.

's Latinos back Pratt?

Pratt baddies revenge.

Everything is reality TV and Spencer Pratt knows it.

It goes on.

The very obsequious, fangirlish even, coverage of Spencer Pratt's mayoral campaign for the Free Press and a bunch of other center-right folks on social media bragging about how great of a campaign he ran.

It turns out, as the count continues to trickle in six days later, that he will not even make the runoff.

He's been passed by Nithya Raman, more of a...

It's kind of hard to frame her ideologically because in some ways she's left of Bass, but she also has been trying to move a line with the Yimby crowd, which you would maybe say is more to the middle of Bass.

But she now appears certain to enter the runoff with Bass.

Pratt, it looks like, will get a smaller percentage of the vote than Trump did.

in Los Angeles, which goes to tell you that the whole buzz about this campaign, it was just this bubble, just a total online bubble, you know, of a certain type of person that was excited about this.

A lot of people don't live in LA that liked his videos.

And, you know, those videos can do well on X, but like that is not a substitute for an actual campaign.

I don't know if you have any thoughts on Spencer Pratt.