Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Spencer Pratt’s Loss Is Statistically Impossible | Ron Simmons
13 Jun 2026
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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hello, everybody. I hope everybody has had a great week this week. I know that we are now kind of into summer, even though it's not officially summer until June.
Chapter 2: How did late mail-in ballots impact the L.A. mayoral race?
I can tell you in Texas, it's already summer. It's been a hot one, and I think it's going to be a hot summer. That's the way it is. Now, maybe El Nino will bring us some rain that we always seem to need. And I hope wherever you are that you're beginning to enjoy your summer. Your kids are hopefully out of school by now. And graduations are over.
Congratulations to all of you that graduated or had kids that graduated or grandkids. Those are always kind of interesting and fun times. I can remember all of those for our kids, and they all have a special memory in our heart. In fact, I'll tell you a little story. I guess Lisa and I always knew that Allie was going to be someone that used her voice in whatever career she decided upon.
But I think that we knew for sure that she was going to be speaking to groups of people when she graduated from college.
Chapter 3: What scandals are surrounding the Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner?
Her college, Furman University, did not the valedictorian didn't automatically speak they actually had a speaking contest that the students participated in and helped judge and then the faculty some faculty group made the final decision and Allie was chosen as the graduation speaker which we were certainly proud of and I remember her speaking that night in the football stadium
at Furman, and just, I could just tell there was a point in her speech, in fact, I should have brought the picture with me, I have a really good picture of it, that it's almost like it's going off in her head, like, yep, this is what I'm meant to do. And so that's a special time for our family. I know you've had a bunch of special times as well.
Now, a lot to talk about today, and we'll try to get through it in as clear and concise as we can. But it's a lot of really interesting information that I hope when I'm doing these. My sessions, obviously, are different than Allie's. My sessions are really to try to take things and to put them in as layman terms as possible. Some of them are very easy to understand.
Chapter 4: Why did Senate Republicans block the SAVE America Act?
Some are more complex. And some of them I may not do that great of a job at. And if I don't, please let me know that. But I do think that they're important. What we're trying to do here, what I'm trying to do is to help you and all of us become better engaged citizens. And I know that you have a lot going on within your family and your job and the other stuff that you do.
But it's also important that we participate in our citizenry. And that has to do with paying attention to those that govern us. It has to do with paying attention to culture. and having influence on as many of those areas as we can through the means that are appropriate that we do as Christians. So that's kind of my goal here. And also to answer your questions, you always have great questions.
We'll have some great questions on this episode, and I'll try to do my best to answer those. But you can always also email me, ron at ronsimmons.com. And I'm happy to answer your questions. If you've emailed me and I haven't gotten back to you, please resend it so it gets back to the top of my inbox. Sometimes they get down at the bottom of the inbox and I forget about them.
Chapter 5: What concerns are being raised about AI data centers?
So please do that. One of the things that's been going on in the last several days is the mayoral race in Los Angeles. And the current mayor there, Karen Bass, and she had two main contenders, Stephen Pratt and Neetha Raymond. And the actual election day was a week or two ago, but it takes California seven, eight days to count votes, which is really crazy.
Chapter 6: How can voters ensure election integrity?
The latest and what they are calling the final says that Nithya Ramon has overtaken Spencer Pratt in the race for second place in the mayor race so that she'll be in the runoff along with Karen Bass. Now, it's really interesting that this happened because on election night, because Pratt was so far ahead of her and about eight or nine points ahead of her, which is a lot in an election race,
Nathia Ramon broke down in tears addressing her supporters because she was in third place and wouldn't be in the runoff. Here's what she said on election night.
I hope you know that everything, every person in this room is fighting for in this campaign has been about building a city that's worthy of you and every child in this city.
So she realized that overcoming a deficit like that would be almost impossible. As a matter of fact, I'll tell you a personal story. The last political race that I ran, my district had kind of turned purple. And it was a race when Beto O'Rourke, if you remember Beto, he ran for Senate against Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz was the sitting senator, who still is.
And Beto generated a lot of excitement among young voters and Democrat voters and what we call general election voters, voters that didn't vote in the primary but vote in the general election. And on election night, we thought we were in good shape. In fact, the polling that we had done just before when the election process started, we were up seven or eight points.
On election night, the polls close at seven o'clock. And those of you that have read my book know this story already. And I go into much more detail in the book. But on election night at seven o'clock, the Republican Party chair of our county will call all of the candidates that are Republican and say, where you are in the early vote count.
And those were the ones that voted before actual election day and early voting. And I was down 200 votes after early voting. Well, the way math works and just statistics work, I knew right then that I was likely to lose that race, even though election day voting hadn't been counted and a lot of the mail ballots had not been counted.
But I knew I knew pretty well for sure that I would lose right then. And sure enough, I did not overcome that deficit during that during once they counted Election Day voting and mail ballots because it's just very hard. Usually the percentages don't change very much at all between what happened in early voting and what happens on Election Day and in mail ballots. So
It's very uncommon, and that's why Ms. Ramon basically conceded that she wasn't going to be in the runoff. However, when all these mail-in ballots came in, and the way California does it, they allow you to send in your mail ballot. And as long as it's postmarked on election day, they will count it. And it takes up to seven, eight days to get all the votes counted.
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