Unsuccessful Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt paid a visit to the White House Tuesday and met with President Donald Trump, who has questioned without evidence the legitimacy of Pratt’s electoral defeat.
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Pratt posted a photo of himself on social media sitting with three other people — including what appears to be one of his sons — in the Oval Office speaking with Trump, who is seated behind his desk.
No details were released about what was discussed. Pratt captioned the photo only, “I will never stop fighting for my community.”
About an hour before he posted the White House photo, Pratt took to X to announced the launch of The WAR Foundation, which he said was created “to fight where others won’t.” He wrote that the foundation will fight political corruption with “innovative new media”; advocate for transparency, accountability and integrity in government and culture; and “restore common sense and roll back the long march of socialism through our viral institutions.”
Pratt finished third in last month’s mayoral primary election, behind incumbent Karen Bass and City Councilwoman Nithya Raman. As the top two finishers, Bass and Raman will face off in a November runoff.
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Pratt’s failure to make the runoff caught the attention of Trump, who claimed without evidence the election was rigged — pointing to the lengthy tabulation of mail-in ballots. Pratt, a Republican, was originally in second place when initial ballot tallies were released on election night.
But as late-arriving mail-in ballots were counted, Raman overtook Pratt and knocked him out of the runoff.
Mail-in ballots typically skew toward Democrats, since most Republican voters tend to cast their ballots in person on or ahead of election day —many fueled by Trump’s criticism of mail-in voting, despite the fact he himself has voted by mail.
California law allows cities to tabulate mail-in ballots received as long as seven days after the election, as long as they are postmarked by election day.
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