Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt is opening up on his marketing campaign and what he sees as the main points afflicting Angelenos forward of the mayoral main on June 2.
In an interview with ABC Information’ Diane Macedo which aired Friday, Pratt criticized his main opponents, incumbent Mayor Karen Bass and Los Angeles metropolis council member Nithya Raman, and spoke out on what he says was the town’s mishandling of the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires and homelessness.
Requested what he would do in a different way if an analogous wildfire menace happened once more below his management, Pratt spoke to what he noticed as priorities concerning fireplace security to proactively keep away from one other catastrophe.
He additionally criticized Bass’ choice to go away Los Angeles earlier than the wildfires began.
Bass, who was attending a diplomatic journey to Ghana when the fires broke out, mentioned her absence at a current mayoral debate, saying, “It was one of many worst moments of my life to not be right here when my metropolis wanted me.”
Pratt, who’s a registered Republican working an unbiased marketing campaign, is locked in a really tight race with Bass and Raman, based on a UC Berkeley-L.A. Times poll launched Thursday.
The ballot discovered 26% of possible voters supporting Bass, 25% supporting Raman and 22% supporting Pratt.
On this Jan. 28, 2026, file picture, Spencer Pratt speaks throughout an look in New York.
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“I do not go off of any polling,” Pratt mentioned when requested about his ideas on the sampling.
He recommended his voters are too busy to reply polling questions. “My voters are busy making an attempt to maintain their household protected,” he mentioned, including, “I might say that is, if something, it is a cute little ballot.”
The Los Angeles mayoral main is a nonpartisan main, the place candidates run campaigns unaffiliated with events. All through his marketing campaign, Pratt has garnered consideration from a number of high-profile Republican figures together with President Donald Trump.
Pratt is working as a transparent outsider in a field of more than 10 candidates, which incorporates two front-runners, alongside Pratt: Bass, the incumbent who has held public workplace for over twenty years, together with a stint in Congress, and Raman, a present metropolis councilwoman elected in 2020.
If any candidate garners greater than 50% of the first vote, they might be declared the winner of the election.
Among the many crowded discipline, solely Bass, Raman and Pratt certified for a televised debate held on Could 6.
Bass is working on her personal document, one that features the damaging fires, but in addition contains her efforts to handle homelessness by creating “reasonably priced and temporaryhousing,” her newly established Workplace of Group Security to handle crime in LA, and her makes an attempt to fight “escalating ICE raids.”
Raman, a metropolis council girl since 2020, is working a progressive marketing campaign targeted on affordability, constructing new housing, metropolis infrastructure upkeep, security, and addressing homelessness, the place she has a said aim to “scale back the variety of individuals sleeping in tents and encampments by no less than 50% by the 2028 Olympics.”
If no candidate receives over 50% of the vote within the June 2 main, the highest two candidates will advance to the final election in November.
Within the Friday interview with ABC Information, Pratt highlighted how he would sort out homelessness and drug habit.
“They want necessary therapy like every addict to get off of fentanyl or tremendous meth. It isn’t empty beds,” Pratt mentioned about habit and homelessness, including, “Once we reallocate our tax cash to public security, to have a functioning metropolis, it’s going to be quite a bit simpler to maintain Angelo’s protected.”
“Proper now, Angelos usually are not protected,” Pratt mentioned.
He continued, “I am really the compassionate one. All these individuals go, ‘Oh Spencer, he hates homeless.’ No, I hate them dying in their very own feces,” he mentioned.
Pratt, who’s but to obtain an endorsement from any sitting member of the Los Angeles Metropolis Council, mentioned he’s not after their approval.
“I do not wish to be a politician,” he mentioned. “The one endorsement I search and have are mothers and animal lovers.”
Pratt mentioned he would work with anybody, together with a brand new governor and president, “who desires to make L.A. the No. 1 metropolis on this planet.”
Requested if he would work with ICE in his position of mayor, Pratt mentioned the mayor wouldn’t be capable of as a result of California’s sanctuary legislation standing, including, “I will make the streets so protected the federal authorities will not be going to want to come back to L.A., as a result of they’ll be like ‘Wow this mayor has these streets protected and clear.'”
He listed the CDC and DEA as federal companies he would work with to realize his aim, including, “I would like all communities to really feel protected in Los Angeles. I’m the mayor that is gonna be the protection mayor.”
Pratt, a former actuality tv star, mentioned he pivoted to politics after dropping his residence within the Los Angeles fires of 2025.
