Los Angeles Mayoral Candidate Spencer Pratt fell into third place behind Democrat City Councilwoman Nithya Raman in the Los Angeles mayoral primary after a damning ballot dump heavily favored the Democratic candidates. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has already been projected to advance to the November runoff. The top two candidates will advance if no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote.
Raman gained over 19,000 votes in the latest dump, Bass gained nearly 16,000, and Pratt gained just under 8,500. 80% of the batch went to the Democrats. With an estimated 146,000 ballots remaining to count, Pratt now trails Raman by more than 3,000 votes. Previously, Raman trailed by roughly 40,000 votes.
