Former reality TV star Spencer Pratt is leaning into his villain persona again — eviscerating Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass as he made his pitch to the significant number of fed-up, undecided voters.
Pratt, who is known for being the “villain” in MTV’s “The Hills” and is now campaigning to be the next mayor, turned the tables on the flailing incumbent leader when grilled on whether he has the experience to run the city.
“The reality, pun intended, is that was from 20 years ago,” he responded when asked in an interview on Fox 11 about his reality TV past and whether that hurts his campaign.
The 42-year-old then torched Bass.
“And if we look at what Karen Bass was doing 20 years ago, she was in Cuba learning how to make bombs with the people that would then go bomb Capitol Hill,” he sniped.
In 2020, during her vice-presidential vetting, Bass shared a “Throwback Thursday” photo from her 1973 trip to Cuba.
As a young activist, she visited Cuba eight times in the 1970s with the Venceremos Brigade, a pro-Cuban Revolution group, to assist with construction.
She then returned in March 2016 with President Obama.
A recent Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies/Los Angeles Times poll showed that Bass still leads the pack, albeit with just 25% of voter support.
Trailing her is ultra-left City Councilwoman Nithya Raman and Pratt, who garnered 17% and 14% of voter support, respectively, according to the survey.
Significantly, roughly 25% of Angelenos are still undecided.
To Pratt, undecided means not Bass — and creates a massive opportunity for him.
“To me, that’s not undecided. They know they don’t want Karen Bass, they’re just waiting to hear the message that I’m going to be sharing with them, the common sense change to Los Angeles,” he told Fox 11.
“I have many weeks to get to those people, tell them, we’re done with this way of LA I am stopping this.”
The closely-watched race is being defined by widespread dissatisfaction over homelessness, rising costs, public safety and criticism of the city’s response to the 2025 wildfire crisis — all issues Pratt is using to position himself as the “common sense” alternative.
Since James Hahn’s shocking 2005 loss, no sitting Los Angeles mayor has flubbed a re-election bid in the general election.
Still, in a volatile race like this, the right outsider could gain political traction.
