2026-06-03T06:11:36.611Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/03/politics/spencer-pratt-karen-bass-los-angeles-mayor
斯宾塞·普拉特数月来一直在发起针对现任洛杉矶市长凯伦·巴斯的游击式竞选活动，借助人工智能生成视频、病毒式传播的造势活动以及一些知名支持者带来的热度，试图利用民众对城市治理现状的不满情绪争取支持。
如今他或许还有五个月的时间来阐述自己的施政主张。
截至周三清晨，随着更多选票正在清点中，巴斯成功获得了十一月大选的参选资格，普拉特以第二名的身份紧随其后，领先进步派市议员妮提亚·拉曼以及其他11名知名度较低的候选人。目前没有任何一名候选人有望超过50%的得票率直接胜出，这意味着得票前两名的候选人将在十一月的选举中正面交锋。
在这个以民主党选民为主的城市，曾出演真人秀明星、注册为共和党的普拉特显然会是弱势一方，对手巴斯曾是州议员和国会议员，得到了该市工会的支持。
尽管如此，周二的初选中，约五分之三的洛杉矶选民试图罢免现任市长，而本次初选候选人不标注党派身份。
“有人说我不代表民主党人、共和党人和无党派人士——不，我代表所有渴望过上基本优质生活的洛杉矶市民，我会在接下来五个月里向大家证明这一点，”普拉特在自己的私人选举之夜派对外对记者说道。
“我是一名洛杉矶市民，我曾说‘够了，该收手了’，于是我必须站出来，”他说，“我会向所有人证明，我就是他们的市长。”
巴斯的选举之夜派对阵容强大，工会领袖、当地民主党官员和商界领袖悉数到场——这个联盟凸显了普拉特当前面临的政治现实：在这座民主党登记选民人数是共和党四倍左右的城市，他的处境并不乐观。
巴斯声称自己在解决无家可归问题上取得了进展，她指出目前已有4.2万套经济适用房正在建设中，她曾承诺将在第二个任期内完工；同时她还提到了改善公共安全的举措，包括修复人行道和安装6万盏路灯。
“我们可以拥有我们都理应拥有的城市，”她说，“我们要打造一个父母和孩子不必在帐篷间穿行的城市，作为美国第二大城市，绝不应该有人睡在我们的街道上。我们有能力解决这个问题，我们一直在这么做，而且会继续坚持下去。”
巴斯没有提及去年造成严重破坏的帕利塞兹太平洋火灾——火灾发生时，巴斯正在加纳随美国代表团出席该国总统就职典礼，这场事故严重损害了她的民望。
这也成了普拉特的攻击素材，他的住宅在这场火灾中被烧毁。他将巴斯对城市应急响应的管理不善作为竞选活动的重点。而最近几周，围绕普拉特是住在其帕利塞兹太平洋地块上停放的33英尺长拖车里，还是大部分夜晚都在豪华酒店过夜的争议，再次将选举焦点拉回了这场火灾，这成为了巴斯的政治软肋。
普拉特还猛烈抨击巴斯和该市的民主党当权派未能充分解决无家可归、毒品泛滥和犯罪问题。他承诺对这些问题采取更激进的处理方式——尽管关于他将如何解决这座美国第二大城市这些棘手问题的具体细节少之又少。
前洛杉矶市长埃里克·加塞蒂周二晚间在CNN节目中表示，选举结果反映了民众对“解决城市长期挑战的速度太慢”的不满。
“我认为这无关党派立场，我认为人们想要的是成果，”他说，“在加州，长期以来我们出台了很多初衷良好的法律，但这些法律拖慢了住房建设、灾后恢复、公共交通建设或高铁建成的速度。”
近几周来，这位曾出演MTV真人秀《好莱坞女孩》的反派角色的普拉特获得了全国关注，得到了共和党人以及唐纳德·特朗普总统圈子内人士的称赞。一名支持普拉特的电影制作人制作了一段人工智能视频，将普拉特塑造成蝙蝠侠，将巴斯塑造成小丑，视频中还有洛杉矶居民向该州最知名的民主党人物投掷西红柿的场景。
“或许是今年最佳政治广告，”前佛罗里达州州长杰布·布什在X平台上说道。
“你怎么可能不投这个人一票？”得克萨斯州参议员特德·克鲁兹问道。
但他们的赞扬也凸显了普拉特面临的两难处境。
他是一名注册共和党人，称自己加入共和党是因为该党支持枪支权利。不过，在这场名义上无党派的市长选举中，他拒绝使用党派标签，并表示最能与自己相提并论的总统是前总统巴拉克·奥巴马。
普拉特是首次参选公职，周二的选举之夜活动并不典型。他在一家墨西哥餐厅举办了私人聚会，但不允许记者进入，黑色窗帘挡住了外界的视线。曾在2016年总统竞选期间与特朗普一同出现在不雅的《走进好莱坞》录音中的广播和电视主持人比利·布什出席了普拉特的派对。
与此同时，巴斯也面临着来自左翼候选人拉曼的激烈挑战。巴斯与拉曼对决的前景让人联想到去年纽约市市长选举，当时进步派候选人佐赫兰·曼达尼先是在民主党初选中击败了该州民主党当权派的标志性人物、前州长安德鲁·科莫，随后又在大选中击败了以第三方候选人身份参选的科莫。
拉曼将自己塑造成继续维持城市现状或接受她所说的“让美国再次伟大”派对洛杉矶刻板印象的替代品。
在五月初的一场辩论中，巴斯和普拉特不断攻击拉曼——拉曼指出了这一点，她对现场观众说：“他们俩都认为互相攻击有助于自己获胜。”
普拉特反驳称，他更愿意对阵拉曼。
“你觉得和坐拥所有工会资源的现任市长竞选更容易，还是和一位当了六年失败议员的随机市议员竞选更容易？”他问道。
在其竞选团队的选举之夜活动中，拉曼并未承认败选，她指出加州将在未来一周继续清点选票，因为周二寄出的盖有邮戳的选票仍在陆续送达。
“今晚可能无法给出这场选举的最终结果，”拉曼说，“未来几天将有数以千计的选票被清点，我们可能得不到自己想要的结果。”
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass punched her ticket for November’s election. Spencer Pratt is still hoping for his
2026-06-03T06:11:36.611Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/03/politics/spencer-pratt-karen-bass-los-angeles-mayor
Spencer Pratt has spent months waging a guerilla campaign against incumbent Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, riding the buzz generated by AI-generated videos, viral moments and some big-name supporters as he seeks to capitalize on dissatisfaction with the way the city is being run.
He may now have five more months to make his case.
Bass secured a spot on the November ballot and Pratt was running in second place as of early Wednesday morning, ahead of progressive city councilwoman Nithya Raman and 11 lesser-known candidates as more ballots were being counted. No candidate appears likely to exceed the 50% threshold to win outright, which means the top two will meet head-to-head in the November election.
In the overwhelmingly Democratic city, Pratt, a former reality television star and registered Republican, would be the clear underdog against Bass, a former state lawmaker and congresswoman with support from the city’s labor unions.
Still, roughly three in five voters in Los Angeles sought to oust their mayor on Tuesday in the primary, in which candidates don’t have party labels.
“This idea that I don’t represent Democrats and Republicans and independents — anyone that’s just a Los Angeles citizen that wants basic quality of life — I’ll be able to show that in five months,” Pratt told reporters outside his private election night party.
“I’m an Angeleno who said, ‘Enough is enough,’ and I had to step up,” he said. “I’m going to show everybody that I’m their mayor.”
The election night party held by Bass was a show of force, featuring union heads, local Democratic officials and business leaders — a coalition that underscored the political reality now facing Pratt in a city where registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by about a four-to-one margin.
She claimed progress on addressing homelessness, pointing to 42,000 affordable housing units now underway that Bass vowed would be finished by the end of her second term, as well as efforts to improve public safety by fixing sidewalks and installing 60,000 streetlights.
“We can have the city that we know we all deserve,” she said. “We’re going to build a city where parents and kids do not have to navigate tents because in the nation’s second-largest city, there should never be anybody that is sleeping on our streets. We are a city that can deal with this, and we have been doing it, and we are going to continue.”
What Bass did not focus on was last year’s destructive Pacific Palisades fire — which broke out while Bass was in Ghana as part of a US delegation for the inauguration of the country’s president and severely dented her popularity.
It was also fodder for Pratt, whose home burned down in the fire. He made what he described as Bass’ mismanagement of the city’s response a focus of his campaign. And disputes in recent weeks over whether Pratt was living in a 33-foot Airstream he had parked on his Pacific Palisades lot, or spending most of his nights in a luxury hotel, only turned the election’s focus back to the fire, a political vulnerability for Bass.
Pratt has also lambasted Bass and the city’s Democratic establishment for failing to sufficiently address homelessness, drug use and crime. He has pledged a much more aggressive approach to those issues — though details on how he would solve the intractable problems of the nation’s second largest city have been scant.
Former Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said on CNN Tuesday night that the results reflect frustration with “how slow things are moving” in addressing the city’s long-term challenges.
“I don’t think this is about partisanship. I think people want results,” he said. “Here in California, we’ve had a lot of well-intentioned laws for a long time that slow down things like building housing, recovering from a fire, being able to get public transportation or get high-speed rail done.”
In recent weeks, Pratt, the one-time villain of MTV’s “The Hills,” gained national attention, and praise from Republicans and those in President Donald Trump’s orbit. A filmmaker who supports Pratt created an artificial intelligence video that portrays Pratt as Batman and Bass as the Joker, and features Los Angeles residents pelting the state’s best-known Democratic figures with tomatoes.
“Maybe the best political ad of the year,” former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said on X.
“How could you not vote for this guy?” asked Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.
But their praise underscored the Catch-22 for Pratt.
He is a registered Republican who says he joined the GOP because of its support for gun rights. However, he has also rejected partisan labels in the nominally nonpartisan mayor’s race and said the president he would compare himself to most directly is former President Barack Obama.
Pratt, a first-time candidate for office, did not have a typical election night event on Tuesday. He held a private gathering at a Mexican restaurant, but reporters were not allowed in and black curtains obstructed the view of those outside. Billy Bush, the radio and television host who appeared on a lewd “Access Hollywood” recording with Trump that surfaced during the 2016 presidential campaign, was on hand for Pratt’s party.
Meanwhile, Bass also faced a spirited challenge from the left in Raman. The prospect of a Bass versus Raman race came with echoes of last year’s New York City mayoral race, in which progressive Zohran Mamdani defeated an icon of the state’s Democratic establishment, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, first in the Democratic primary, and then again in the general election, when Cuomo ran as a third-party candidate.
Raman portrayed herself as an alternative to continuing the city’s status quo or embracing what she described as “Make America Great Again” caricatures of Los Angeles.
In an early May debate, Bass and Pratt attacked Raman repeatedly — which Raman noted, telling the crowd that “each of them thinks that running against each other is what’s going to help them win.”
Pratt shot back that he’d rather run against Raman.
“You think it’s easier to run against the incumbent mayor with all the unions, or a random city council member who’s been a failure for six years?” he asked.
At her campaign’s election night event, Raman did not concede, noting that California will be counting ballots for another week as those postmarked by Tuesday arrive.
“Tonight may not give us a final answer on this race,” Raman said. “Many thousands of votes will be counted in the days ahead, and we may not get an answer we like.”