Spencer Pratt won the LA mayor's race on Election Night.
Then the mail drops started – and California did what California does.
Now Trump's endorsed candidate is being pushed out of the runoff by a system designed to make sure he can't win.
California Mail-In Ballots Erased Pratts 40000 Vote Lead After Election Night
Pratt – the Trump-endorsed Republican who jumped into the race after his Pacific Palisades home burned down in the 2025 wildfire – walked into election night with a 40,000-vote lead and a clear path to the runoff.
Then the late mail-in drops started.
Each batch arriving days after Election Day looked identical: Raman pulling 40% while Pratt cratered to 17%.
By Sunday night, the 40,000-vote lead was gone.
The RNC launched a live tracker counting every second California has taken to finish the count. "The California primary ended on June 2, 2026; yet California is still counting ballots," it reads. "The state's election system is a complete joke."
Elon Musk said the quiet part out loud: "When you combine no ID and mail-in voting, fraud is de facto legalized."
Conservative commentator Starbuck flagged what he called a statistical impossibility. "ChatGPT can't find a single example of a 3rd place candidate surging, days AFTER Election Day, to overtake 2nd place," he wrote Sunday. "It couldn't find one example in all of American history."
That is what just happened in Los Angeles.
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The Same California Ballot Counting Pattern That Erases Republican Leads Every Cycle
This is not new.
California has allowed mail-in ballots postmarked on Election Day to arrive up to seven days later since at least 2020.
Conservatives have watched this exact script play out election cycle after election cycle.
A Republican or conservative candidate builds a lead on election night.
The mail drops come in.
The lead disappears.
The Democrat wins.
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RNC Chairman Michael Whatley filed national lawsuits after the 2024 cycle demanding states stop accepting ballots after Election Day. California ignored it.
The DOJ sent an attorney to observe ballot processing in Los Angeles. Trump said publicly what millions of Americans already believe: the slow count is the cheat.
Nithya Raman DSA Progressive Headed to LA Mayor Runoff on Late Ballot Surge
Nithya Raman is not a moderate who got lucky with late ballots.
She entered this race as a DSA-endorsed progressive who once declared support for defunding the police – then walked it back when it became politically inconvenient.
On election night, she blamed a "MAGA machine" advancing a "dark agenda" against her campaign.
Now that same campaign is heading to a November runoff against Karen Bass – courtesy of a mail system that delivers Democratic victories like clockwork.
California has no voter ID requirement, accepts ballots a full week after Election Day, and gives officials 30 days to certify results.
Every one of those rules advantages one party – and it isn't the Republicans.
The only question left is whether Congress forces California to count votes like a functioning democracy – or conservatives keep watching the same heist run on them every single cycle.
Sources:
- Eric Mack, "Spencer Pratt's LA mayoral runoff bid in jeopardy as ballot count narrows," Fox News, June 7, 2026.
- Ashley Carnahan, "LA city councilwoman previously backed by DSA running for mayor in primary challenge to former ally Bass," Fox News, 2026.
- Jamie Joseph, "RNC rails against California's late mail-in ballot counting amid national litigation," Fox News, November 27, 2024.
- FOX 11 Digital Team, "LA mayor's race: Nithya Raman now leads Spencer Pratt for No. 2 spot in runoff election," Fox 11 Los Angeles, June 8, 2026.
