Trump Calls California Rigged After Democrat Mail Ballots Erase Spencer Pratts Lead

Karen Bass let twelve people burn alive in the Palisades Fire – then hired a celebrity PR firm to cover it up.

Now the woman who fled to Ghana while Los Angeles burned is heading for a November runoff with zero Republican opposition.

What happened to his lead five days after Election Day will make your blood boil.

California Primary Fraud Claims Grow as Mail Ballots Flip Spencer Pratt to Third Place

Spencer Pratt spent the last year turning his grief into a campaign.

He and Heidi Montag lost their Pacific Palisades home in January 2025.

He watched the city's leadership fail his neighbors, lie about the death toll, and then spin the disaster with crisis PR.

He ran for mayor to expose all of it – and he had no political background, just a camera and a cause.

For most of election night June 3, it was working.

Pratt held second place – the spot that sends a candidate to the November runoff against Bass.

He led Nithya Raman by 40,000 votes when the polls closed.

Then California started counting mail-in ballots.

Five days later, that 40,000-vote cushion was gone.

Progressive City Council member Raman had passed him by 3,113 votes.

With 83 percent of ballots counted, Bass leads at 34.7 percent, Raman sits at 27.1 percent, and Pratt is stuck at 26.7 percent.

Decision Desk HQ has already called the runoff slot for Raman.

Pratt is out.

DOJ Opens California Election Fraud Investigation as FBI Enters LA Vote Center

Trump didn't wait for the final count.

"Has anybody been watching the CROOKED Election going on in California," he posted on Truth Social.

"Two great Republican Candidates are being cheated, and so is America, which if the Dumocrats are able to fulfill their mission, great trouble and consternation will follow."

Monday morning, after Raman was projected to take the second spot, Trump posted again: "No way this could have happened. Rigged Election!"

He'd been tracking it all week.

On Thursday he posted: "There's BIG cheating by the Dumocrats in California. Votes are all tied up. May not be in for weeks. Under investigation by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles."

That last part became real fast.

First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli – Trump's man in Los Angeles – announced his office had opened multiple election fraud investigations in coordination with the FBI.

Essayli sent a federal prosecutor directly to the Los Angeles County ballot processing center.

"We will follow the evidence wherever it leads and prosecute any violations of federal election law to the fullest extent," Essayli wrote on X.

He cited "serious structural vulnerabilities" in California's universal vote-by-mail system and confirmed he is working with DOJ Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon to audit the state's voter rolls – a case already before the Ninth Circuit.

California mails ballots to all 23 million registered voters and counts them if postmarked by Election Day and received up to seven days later.

Election law expert Hans von Spakovsky told Fox News the counting delays aren't accidental – they're baked into the system.

The seven-day post-election receipt window is the biggest problem, he said, but it compounds with three other structural issues: the sheer volume of mail ballots requiring individual signature verification, a 22-day cure period when signatures don't match, and mountains of provisional ballots that must be investigated one by one.

Every one of those pressure points extends the window where results can flip.

And they always seem to flip the same direction.

Republicans lead on election night.

Democrats catch up after days of late mail-in counting.

The RNC isn't taking it anymore.

Chairman Michael Whatley called California's system "absurd" and confirmed the RNC has filed national lawsuits to stop states from counting ballots that arrive after Election Day.

The Supreme Court is expected to rule on that issue this month – and the court's six conservatives signaled they're ready to require ballots be received by Election Day to count.

That ruling could change everything.

For now, Karen Bass – who was 7,500 miles away in Ghana when the Palisades fire tore through her city, and who later said nobody told her she shouldn't have made the trip – is cruising into November with no Republican on the ballot.

Trump is watching.

So is the FBI.

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Sources:

• "Trump Rages at 'CROOKED' California Vote After Spencer Pratt Falls Behind in LA Race," Mediaite, June 8, 2026.
• "Election Fraud Probes in California Announced by US Attorney Amid Rising Tensions Over Slow Vote Count," Fox 11 Los Angeles, June 5, 2026.
• "California Election Delays Traced to Mail Voting System, Expert Says," Fox News, June 6, 2026.
• "RNC Rails Against California's Late Mail-In Ballot Counting Amid National Litigation," Fox News.
• "Spencer Pratt Blasts 'Negligent and Corrupt' LA Mayor Karen Bass in Fiery Rant," Fox News / The Mirror, 2026.
• "California Primary 2026: Bass Maintains Lead as Raman Overtakes Pratt," ABC7 Los Angeles, June 8, 2026.