Four years ago, Cuba-trained communist agitator, Karen Bass, beat real estate developer Rick Caruso in a 53-47 runoff, overcoming some $100 million in self-funded spending by the loser of the race. That was a fateful election in many ways, but it did establish that there were enough potential Republican votes to be had in Los Angeles that a candidate with money or a message could, at a minimum, make the runoff and potentially even win.
Those results are worth remembering now, four years later, when, despite running one of the most noteworthy campaigns in recent American history, Spencer Pratt has just been bounced out of the runoff in an effective three-way race thanks to a bizarre distribution of votes from mail-in ballots counted well after Election Night. (RELATED: SCOTUS Must Stop Mail-In Voting Madness)
Nobody can find an example from history in which a third-place candidate getting 20 percent of the Election Day in-person vote counted on Election Night, who had conceded the race as Nithya Raman did, suddenly jumps to 40 percent of the vote as mail-in ballots are counted. That’s because it’s never happened before, and it cannot happen in the wild. (RELATED: The Indefatigable California Vote Factory)
They want you to believe this happened in the LA Mayors race…
3rd place jumps to 1st in *every* ballot drop *after* Election Day
Defies all mathematical probability, the law of averages and has never happened in US election history
No one with a functional brain believes this pic.twitter.com/dytiUmW6zI
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) June 8, 2026
A lot of people don’t want to confront the implications of what they just saw happen in LA, even those who are appalled by it. They want an out, just so they can go on, not be terrified, feel a tiny tiny bit in control still. It will be interesting to see what they come up with.
— Walter Kirn (@walterkirn) June 8, 2026
There are a number of theories as to how Raman, who lost in her city council district and the congressional district she’s in, could somehow have emerged as the Mail-In Ballot Queen. But the most obvious one comes from the fact that in California, they’re mailing out ballots to everyone on the voter rolls, which they’re actively refusing to clean, and in Los Angeles, there are tens of thousands of registered voters whose ballot access is provided by third parties.
Meaning, for example, there are homeless people in L.A. who get their ballots mailed to a facility run by an NGO, and the NGO “facilitates” their vote.
And those ballots will be counted so long as they’re postmarked on Election Day.
When on Election Day is a… good question. Because California will happily take weeks to count votes, a time period which has, multiple times in the past, resulted in stunning come-from-behind victories for Democrats. Like in several congressional races over the past few years.
And now Spencer Pratt has lost a seven-point lead over Raman to fall out of the runoff in Los Angeles.
Raman’s electoral strength seems to have come out of mail-in ballots from the downtown area of the city — where Skid Row happens to be. Pratt noted that her surge of 43,000 votes is an eerily similar number to the estimated 43,000 homeless living on the downtown streets.
That might be too cute to take seriously, but it’s obvious you don’t have such a massive turnaround from the 58 percent of the votes counted on Election Night producing a comfortable margin for a Bass-Pratt runoff, and then by the time 87 percent of the votes were in, on the strength of the mail-in vote, it’s suddenly Raman 3,000 votes up on Pratt.
As @BoredElonMusk & the data show, Raman’s late mail in ballot surge was fueled in large part by ballots from Skid Row.
Tens of thousands of homeless whose ballots are sent to central addresses (not the sidewalk) & can be filled out/returned by someone else.
Suspicious… https://t.co/Ch3yVr26WZ pic.twitter.com/lnHXDnQiFq
— Houman David Hemmati, MD, PhD (@houmanhemmati) June 7, 2026
Bill Essayli, the first assistant to the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, is making it clear that the Justice Department is aware of the situation and looking into it.
Trump’s DOJ is investigating the vote counting process in L.A. @USAttyEssayli says “our system sucks” in California.
He says @USAO_LosAngeles wants to audit the elections but is being “stonewalled.”
He says it’s not clear how widespread voter fraud is.
Via @CNNTheStoryIs pic.twitter.com/qnQPWAwepa
— Elex Michaelson (@Elex_Michaelson) June 7, 2026
But Essayli also notes that California has an intentionally broken election system, which is set up to normalize cheating…
California Is Blocking a Federal Audit of Its Voter Rolls
California allows first-time voters to register using forms of ID that most Americans would find surprising, including:
-Gym membership card
-Employer ID card
-Credit or debit card
-Prescription drug label
-Insurance… pic.twitter.com/kOEOzpctmb— F.A. United States Attorney Bill Essayli (@USAttyEssayli) June 7, 2026
Get into the subject of election integrity, and you will find that it’s a jungle. Many people active on the Right in this space will drag you into the topic of voting machines and the thicket that is Dominion and Smartmatic; that’s a trip inside the weeds, which gives most people a headache. (RELATED: The Spectacle Ep. 296: The 2020 Election Fraud Exposé Continues)
But this isn’t quite so complex.
California deliberately keeps dirty voter rolls, and it’s a state with a massive amount of outmigration. For most purposes, outmigration is a colossal problem; it creates difficulties with school funding, reapportionment, federal matching funds for all kinds of programs and systems, and so on.
But for keepers of dirty voter rolls and ballot harvesters, outmigration is mother’s milk.
All of these people who are moving out of California for places like Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Colorado, and Idaho will generally remain on the voter rolls that the state and local authorities do not keep clean. So when the state sends out a mail-in ballot to John Gone at some apartment complex in Los Angeles and there is some NGO that goes around to get those ballots, and there is no real effort made at verifying a signature on those ballots — California will, in fact, allow signers to simply make a mark and then have someone “witness” the ballot — it’s possible to harvest ballots and manufacture votes with impunity.
And how does anyone prove the fraud?
The proof isn’t granular. It isn’t in the fish in the ocean; it is the ocean.
Another way to put this is that a system is what it does.
When the Justice Department asks for states to submit their voter file for an audit to ensure that no illegal aliens or dead people are on the voter rolls, and California refuses to cooperate, it’s prima facie evidence that fraud is going on. When the state says it can’t count votes on Election Night but has to take a month to do so, when drawn-out vote counts are absolutely corrosive to perceived election integrity, there can be no presumption that this is a good-faith effort to get it right. (RELATED: Afflicted With TDS, Four Senators Kill Election Integrity)
When the state actively fights voter ID requirements and accepts things like gym memberships as proof of ID, that’s a sure tell that they want ineligible people to vote.
This is how Democrats stay in power in California
US Attorney Bill Essayli was kicked off the Elections Committee by Democrats for fighting for Voter ID
🚨 He exposed how the State’s website allows ANYONE to receive mail in ballots without a drivers license or social security.… pic.twitter.com/7X8cxLBlu7
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) June 4, 2026
And when the third-place candidate somehow doubles her vote among mail-in votes, besting the first-place candidate and the second-place candidate, that is best explained by fraud.
California has nothing but hinky elections, which produce nincompoops and criminals as its leaders, and you’re supposed to believe that nothing untoward is happening.
They are micturating on your leg and demanding that you agree that it’s raining.
But you don’t have to.
What happened in Los Angeles was absolutely blatant vote fraud. It is a brute-force manipulation of election results, which is entirely on brand for an organization that is less a political party, as Michael Walsh used to say, than a criminal syndicate. Compare this with the wide-open welfare and social services fraud Democrats are openly defending in Minnesota, New York, and yes, California, and you will find very little difference either in style or substance. (RELATED: Some Obvious Truths From Minnesota)
They gave up on pretenses of honesty and goodwill years ago. They knew they weren’t going to allow Pratt to win that race, and they were also nervous that Pratt, in the runoff, would drive up Republican turnout in Los Angeles, which could benefit Steve Hilton, not to mention Pratt’s campaign was creating a real PR disaster for their political machine that five more months of hand grenades would make intolerably worse.
So they simply fixed it so that Pratt would go away.
And they don’t care what anybody thinks.
And this will go on until someone stops it.
Bill Essayli and his bosses have a lot of work to do.
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