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Spencer Pratt’s lead over Nithya Raman withers in bombshell ballot drop 57%
By Jamie Paige0%
6/6/2026, 5:22:14 PM
Keywords: California, Karen Bass, Nithya Raman, Spencer Pratt, Steve Hilton, Tom Steyer, Xavier Becerra, Politics
BS Summary: This article contains 17 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Biased Writer Voice, and Framing Effect, with Recency Bias as the most egregious example at 71.9% saturation with 141 hits. Analysis detected 853 faulty-reasoning hits from 196 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 54.1% and a BS Rank of 57% (9,466 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 56.80% of the article peer group.
Spencer Pratt’s once-comfortable lead in the Los Angeles mayoral primary has been slashed yet again — as a fresh batch of ballots delivered another major boost to progressive City Councilmember Nithya Raman in their race to the November runoff.
New results released Saturday show Pratt's advantage over Raman shrinking to just 7,494 votes, down from more than 20,000 a day earlier.
Roughly 78% of the ballots had been counted as of Saturday.
Raman picked up 23,514 votes in the latest count, more than double Pratt's gain of 10,336.
Her share of the vote jumped from 24.9% to 26.2%, while Pratt slipped from 28.2% to 27.3%.
The latest mayoral numbers were released as movement in the governor's race remained far more limited.
Former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra continued to lead the field with 1,732,755 votes, or 26.8%, while Republican Steve Hilton remained close behind with 1,704,821 votes, or 26.4%.
Billionaire businessman Tom Steyer held third place with 1,361,549 votes, or 21.0%, showing little change from Friday's results and failing to gain ground on Hilton in the race for a spot in November's runoff.
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