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Spencer Pratt ripped into his far-Left opponents during the Los Angeles mayoral debate on Wednesday, hammering their policies on everything from homelessness to firefighting.

Pratt faced off against Mayor Karen Bass and socialist Councilwoman
Nithya Raman on a stage where they clashed on how to best lead the city
of 3.8 million. The former reality TV star said during the debate that
he would crack down on crime, improve the city's fire response
readiness, and move away from the city's ineffective efforts to combat homelessness.

"The good news is when I enforce the law and clear the streets of the
drug addicts that have taken over 40 blocks of downtown L.A., abandoned buildings that have drug addicts just lighting them on fire every other
day, I will have potentially 20,000 units available to build," Pratt
said.

Spencer Pratt DESTROYS Los Angeles's Communist mayoral
candidates Karen Bass and Nithya Raman:

"The good news is, when I enforce the law and clear the street
of the drug addicts that have taken over 40 blocks of downtown
LA, abandoned buildings that have drug addicts just.
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- Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) May 7, 2026

Pratt, whose home was burned down in the Pacific Palisades fire, accused
Bass of denying money requested for fire engines just weeks before the
blaze. He also accused her of using water reserves for fire fighting for drinking water. Bass claimed that Pratt was spreading "inaccurate"
details of her response to the L.A. fires and said the reservoirs in
question "have been for drinking water" for decades. The mayor also
accused Pratt of spreading false information on the wind speeds during
the fire outbreak, which L.A. authorities said were too high for
firefighting aircraft to respond to the fires.

"She's an incredible liar," Pratt responded, urging the audience to
research what weather stations reported on the wind speeds in the early
days of the blaze. The debate moderators cut him off and told him he
could not engage in "name-calling."

NEW: Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt fires back
after the debate moderator accused him of "name-calling."

Pratt: "[Karen Bass] an incredible liar."

Moderator: "I have to interrupt you for a minute. I have to
interrupt you. No name-calling."

Pratt: "She just. pic.twitter.com/Z3L5gFPfmi

- Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 7, 2026

During a different exchange, Pratt criticized Raman over her approach to homelessness and said she would get stabbed if she tried to implement
her drug treatment plan for the homeless.

"Councilwoman Raman acts like she doesn't have any authority with this homelessness. She was the third most powerful person in city council,"
he said. "She runs the homeless housing thing. She acts like this is
just Mayor Bass."

"The reality is, no matter how many beds you give these people, they are
on super-meth. They are on fentanyl. The DEA statistics says 93% of this
is a drug addiction problem," he added. "Councilwoman Raman's plan for treatment first - I will go below the Harbor Freeway tomorrow with her,
and we can find some of these people she's going to offer treatment for. ?She's going to get stabbed in the neck. These people do not want a bed.
They want fentanyl or super-meth. These ideas cost us over $400
million."

Pratt also accused Raman of favoring squatters over tenants, saying she
would sue landlords who try to get squatters out of their properties.

Moderators also asked the candidates if they would support letting
noncitizens vote in elections.

Pratt said no, while both Bass and Raman said it "depends."

"They could have green cards, they could be here perfectly legal, and
there's a lot of states and cities that do that on very, very local elections," Bass said.

Raman accused Pratt of having a "MAGA" vision for Los Angeles and said
he was working with Bass to attack her campaign.

Best part of the debate tonight! https://t.co/HLkwprBcEr
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- Barefoot Broadcast (@BarefootBC) May 7, 2026

"Mayor Bass and I are definitely not working together. I blame this
person for burning down my house and my parents' house and my town, and
all my neighbors down," Pratt responded. "You think it's easier to run
against the incumbent mayor with all the unions or a random city council member who's been a failure for six years? I would much rather run
against Councilwoman Raman."

The Los Angeles mayoral race is slated for June 2, 2026. If no candidate
gets a majority of the vote, the top two candidates will move on to a
runoff in November.
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