Tim Miller

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.

Maybe the MAGA media should go to some diners in LA or, you know, I don't know, maybe a taqueria.

Smoothie shop.

I want to talk about the conspiracy theories which now are proliferating online.

And by proliferating, I mean, obviously the president himself shared conspiracy theories about this L.A.

mayor's race.

I've seen it from Megyn Kelly.

I saw it from Will Chamberlain.

I've debated on the Pierce Morgan Show.

It's really widespread.

The Federalist, Meghan McCain.