Los Angeles residents share who they voted for in mayoral race and its bad news for Karen Bass
Voters across Los Angeles made their voices heard at the ballot box Tuesday, sharing with The California Post who they wanted to see hold the city’s top job.A California Post survey conducted with McLaughlin & Associates just days before the June 2 primary election showed reality TV star-turned-mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt surging to a statistical tie with incumbent Mayor Karen Bass.Pratt led the field with 30.1% support, compared with 29.5% for Bass, setting up a razor-thin race heading into Tuesday’s primary, while left-wing Councilwoman Nithya Raman sits in third place at 23.4%.“I want my L.A.back,” one female voter who voted for Pratt told The Post outside a polling location.
“I think he’s the most common-sense guy ever because I don’t like either party.I just like common sense.”“We have homeless people sitting there disgustingly dirty,” she added.Several other voters who supported Pratt cited concerns about homelessness, crime, quality of life, and frustration with Bass, particularly with her handling of the Pacific Palisades fires.“I voted for Pratt because our apartment burned down in the Palisades.
I felt like everybody kind of abandoned us,” Marissa Abel told The Post.“Pratt’s house burned down too, so I feel like he’s kind of an advocate for us fellow Palisadians.”Abel said her experience during the Palisades fire shaped her vote for Pratt.Frustrated by what she described as government failures during the disaster response, she said she supported Pratt because she believes he understands the community’s struggles and is willing to push for accountability and change.“I’m not really on either side politically.
I don’t vote red or blue.I vote based on what I believe,” she said.Pratt announced his run for mayor in early January during the one-year anniversary of the Palisades fire, in which he lost his own home.
He cited his experience during the disaster as a major reason for entering the race.Of the almost...