For the last few weeks, since the campaign’s one debate with all three candidates, it was easy for a casual observer to think that Pratt was in the lead, given how his candidacy came across on X, podcasts or even cable news, each of which treated the former reality-show villain as a political phenomenon rewiring the partisan landscape of L.A., saying the unsayable about local governance and social disorder and forging a new coalition of voters too fed up with the status quo to stay in their ideological lanes.X, podcasts, or even cable news, or, THE NEW YORK FUCKING TIMES:
They ran just one centered on Nithya Raman, who took the spot he was "supposed" to take.
