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Full interview: Spencer Pratt by CBS News on YouTube
Former reality TV prima Spencer Pratt opened up astir his tally for politician of Los Angeles and his plans to bring alteration to the metropolis successful an exclusive interrogation with CBS News.
Pratt, 42, is polling 2nd successful the contention to beryllium politician of the second-largest metropolis successful the United States. If elected, helium would beryllium the archetypal Republican politician of Los Angeles since 2001, erstwhile Richard Riordan near bureau aft 2 terms.
Pratt, who has nary anterior governmental experience, told CBS News' Adam Yamaguchi that helium believes his "common sense" cognition volition entreaty to voters: "I don't bash the person talk, and I deliberation it's refreshing to radical to perceive idiosyncratic talk from the heart, beryllium authentic."
When Yamaguchi asked Pratt astir a caller UCLA canvass that recovered 40% of voters are inactive undecided, Pratt said those results bespeak Los Angeles is acceptable to ballot retired incumbent Mayor Karen Bass, who was heavy criticized for her effect to the city's devastating wildfires past year. Pratt was among the celebrities who lost their homes to the Palisades Fire.
Pratt told Yamaguchi helium doesn't spell disconnected of those polling numbers due to the fact that helium doesn't deliberation his voters are picking up calls from pollsters, but said: "What it shows is that Mayor Bass has the worst grounds successful LA history."
Pratt, Bass and Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman faced disconnected successful a heated debate earlier this week. Pratt, who archetypal made a sanction for himself arsenic the nonmigratory villain connected MTV's "The Hills," said the forum and his run person allowed viewers to spot him successful a caller light.
"People cognize erstwhile I was a world villain, I was doing it to get paid. It was strategic. I was moving with producers," helium said. "I'm being precise strategical to triumph and prevention LA, but there's nary strategy erstwhile you're lasting successful an Airstream connected your burned retired town. You can't fake that."
When asked astir comparisons to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who upset erstwhile Governor Andrew Cuomo to go the person of the largest metropolis successful the country, Pratt said that similar Mamdani, helium has promised change, though they disagree wildly connected policies.
"The 1 happening I link with is I cognize helium promised his voters (buses) volition beryllium free, and I'm promising my voters the metro, Metro buses, the Metro trains, they volition beryllium escaped from urine, feces, stabbing, attacks," Pratt said. "So that's benignant of similar. We some had escaped things for nationalist transportation."
He continued: "But you know, I deliberation helium connected with radical due to the fact that they felt similar change. They wanted change. That connection would ne'er link present due to the fact that we've already been doing the socialist experimentation beauteous overmuch for six positive years, and it's failed present successful Los Angeles. So I deliberation my connection is, wherefore it's resonating connected societal media, is it's the truth. It's authentic. It's from my heart. I didn't privation to beryllium a politician. I'm lasting successful what happened due to the fact that of failed politicians. That's wherefore I'm here."
Pratt besides compared himself to erstwhile President Barack Obama, noting that Obama was a "community organizer" earlier his Senate term, and that helium had "no acquisition moving the full full country" earlier his statesmanlike bid.
"When radical person passionateness and they attraction and they person communal consciousness and they person humility to cognize 'I don't cognize everything,' but what I bash cognize is each these precise smart, palmy radical successful Los Angeles privation to get astir me, get down me, and marque definite that LA is the number-one metropolis successful the world," Pratt said.
The Los Angeles mayoral predetermination volition instrumentality spot connected June 2. If nary campaigner receives a bulk of the vote, past the 2 starring candidates volition beforehand to a runoff connected Nov. 3.
Watch the afloat interrogation with Pratt above.
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