Here is the TRUTH about the Los Angeles mayors race…
MAGA on X is full of grifters and morons who both think an ad that goes viral nationally somehow has an impact on LA voters, and who profited from the narrative that somehow a Trump-like character was going to repeat the 2016 presidential election (the day Trump made uneducated people finally feel smarter than the elites!) in deep blue LA. This created lots of media coverage, which promoted the false impression of momentum for Pratt, convincing more morons that he was actually going to win.
But Pratt had no campaign infrastructure/ground game, and when Trump endorsed him, and he became a MAGA darling, he became instantly a toxic threat to most of the LA voters.
Meanwhile, Raman was not known to most of the electorate, which was not happy with the choice between Bass and Pratt. A late LA Times poll showing Raman beating Pratt and almost beating Bass gave her huge credibility with late deciders (there were many of these because of the muddied governors race). They saw her as Mamdani 2.0.
The seemingly odd pattern of the super slow results actually make perfect sense (and also bode VERY poorly for Bass in November, which destroys the idea that the Democrat establishment wanted Pratt out enough to rig the election). But MAGA media doesn’t want to admit they were SO very wrong, and because Trump has already set the precedent that whenever you lose you just claim voter fraud, that became the fallback/face-saving position for influencers across X. Trump, continuing the conspiracy circle jerk, was all too happy to amplify this BS narrative on Meet the Press.
Basically, this whole fiasco is the movie Idiocracy come to life!
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