Tommy Vietor

She's got a challenge from the left from Nithya Raman.

And then a challenge from the right from like a washed up reality TV participant.

I don't even want to call him a star.

Spencer Pratt, who lost his home in the Palisades fire.

And I think has channeled very understandable anger about the response into a surprisingly effective campaign.

And he's like tapped into this

rage at the government, rage at the system, that I think was bubbling below the surface for a lot of people.

And not just people who are feeling the economic pinch, a lot of rich, powerful people in this city are pro-Pratt now.

Are you hearing that anger on the campaign trail?

And if so, how do Democrats address it and speak to it when we're in charge of everything here and have been for a while?

Let me be annoying and ask a process question and we'll get geek out a little bit.

So you got into the race pretty late.

It was a crowded field, but now you've been running for a couple of months and there was a poll out earlier this week that had you at 4% of the vote.

How do you turn things around if that poll is accurate between now and election day when it's what, a month out, less?

I want to ask you more about homeownership and young people in the state.

Just one more sort of process thing, which is like, look, I'm literally an undecided voter in this race.

In part because, as you know, we have this stupid fucking jungle primary system here where there's a runoff, there's a first round on June 2nd, the top two candidates go to the runoff.

So that leads to strategic voting, right?

There was all this anxiety about Democrats splitting the vote, two Republicans ascending, and then we have a de facto Republican governor.

That probably won't happen now because Chad seems to touch cuckoo.