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Harsh words were exchanged last night in Los Angeles mayor in the Los Angeles mayoral debate. Incumbent Mayor Karen Bass squared off with a former ally who's now seeking to replace her along with her other challenger, former TV personality Spencer Pratt. Tom Weight of CBS News Los Angeles spoke with the former star of the hit series The Hills about why he decided to throw his hat in the ring.
>> I say things that I feel.
Spencer Pratt never held back during his time on the MTV hit series The Hills, which aired in the early 2000s.
>> Why can't I say that?
>> And Pratt isn't holding back now as he makes a run to become LA's next mayor.
>> If I don't get in and we have four more years of these current plans and this current direction and not a real one 180 change, everyone is in big trouble.
>> We spoke with Pratt in the Palisades where his home once stood. It was destroyed in the Palisades fire disaster.
Pratt's parents, who also live in the Palisades, lost their house, too.
>> The fire was not what motivated me to be go after becoming the mayor of Los Angeles. It was the months after and and discovering the layers of city negligence and then the coverups and the lies.
>> Business as usual is a death sentence for Los Angeles. Since launching his mayoral campaign, Pratt has continued amassing a huge following on social media. The former reality TV show star says it's because he has a message with universal appeal.
>> My first 100 days is going to be enforcing the law and making moms feel safe with their kids at parks, in front of their schools.
You cannot give zombies these. Yes, they were human beings, but once you go on fentanyl or super meth, you're no longer a human being.
It's not about we need more beds, not inside safe, not more affordable housing for no, we need medical mandatory treatment.
>> Do you identify with one particular party or the other? And if you do, how do you reach kind of everybody?
>> Yeah, thankfully it's a nonpartisan race, but if there was a letter next to my name, it would be an R, but that R would stand for results. I'm coming in here with no tribal politics. I'm coming here to represent all Angelinos. Like other fire victims, Pratt and his family are dealing with the trauma of losing their homes.
But Pratt says talking to Angelinos on the campaign trail gives him strength.
>> I'm in the best place I've been since the house and the town burned down
because of the hope that I feel from all of Los Angeles when I go around talking to thousands of people a day.
Pratt says whether he rebuilds his home in the Palisades hinges on the outcome of the mayoral election.
Reporting from the newsroom, I'm Tom Wait, CBS
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