Tim Miller

And those are very popular among Republicans who live in other places online.

understandably but like that is not how you appeal to a city that is 60 democrat and the rest independent 25 independent and so you had all these people online all these republicans from other states so it's like spencer pratt is running this amazing campaign it's like well he's running an amazing campaign to appeal to you like maga republican that lives in orlando

or like Republican commentator that goes on Fox News and lives in New York.

Like he's running these, no wonder you like it.

He's appealing to you, but he did not run a good campaign appealing to Democrats that live in LA.

It's possible that you could reach them.

I think that there's some unhappiness with the,

Democratic governance there, but the way to appeal to them is not to run a MAGA campaign.

And so the reality is that Pratt had zero chance to win.

Even had he made the runoff, there was no path to getting a majority of the vote running a MAGA campaign in LA.

And so the whole conspiracy theory rests on this notion that Karen Bass wanted to prevent Spencer Pratt from getting into the runoff, which is like the opposite of true.

Now Karen Bass is in a real danger.

Like the incumbent L.A.

mayor, who I assume, I guess nobody ever says who is doing the election thieving, but I would assume it would be the incumbent mayor who would have some control over the election process and for whom the people that run the elections work for.

Why would she want to rig the system to get a more formidable challenger

In the runoff, I now I think it's a decent chance that Karen Bass loses.

And we've now been through this system a million times.

I mean, literally in L.A., we went through this, whatever that was, four years ago, where Caruso was winning an election day against Karen Bass and the mail came in and Karen Bass won.

Like if you tell voters that that mail in ballot is fraudulent and you shouldn't use it like the MAGA Republicans do, then it shouldn't be a surprise that your voters don't use the mail.

that progressive voters do and if the mail ballots get counted later i it won't be surprised that the more you know the more progressive candidate will do well in the later counts this is very easy to understand it's very easy to explain there's no conspiracy and yet like ostensibly reasonable people who've worked in politics for years whose parents were senators have decided that like they think that this is a big conspiracy and yet the conspiracy makes no sense