Add The California Post on Google Right-wing America is erupting over the results of a local mayoral race in the nation’s second-largest city.
In scathing posts across X, Republican and MAGA figures have denounced the results of the Los Angeles mayoral race after their favored candidate Spencer Pratt failed to make the November runoff.
“Not possible for Spencer Pratt to have lost the L.A. runoffs after the big lead he had. 3rd World Nation. Rigged Elections! Now they’ll be working on great guy Steve Hilton. Won’t have results for, possibly, TWO WEEKS, according to officials. President DJT,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform hours before the race was called in favor of Pratt’s rival Nithya Raman.
“No way this could have happened. Rigged Election!” he added.
On election night, Pratt performed significantly better than Raman, securing an eight-point lead as the first round of mostly in-person votes was counted.
In the days that followed, Raman gained ground as more mail-in ballots — which tend to favor Democrats and other progressive candidates — were counted. On Sunday, Raman secured enough votes to advance to the November runoff against incumbent Karen Bass, who claimed the top spot days earlier.
Pratt’s knockout from the Los Angeles mayoral race has sent the internet and Republicans into a frenzy, adding fuel to claims of election fraud.
“After 5 days of statistically impossible ballot drops, Nithya Raman has pulled ahead of Spencer Pratt. The DOJ needs to keep investigating. This can’t be allowed to keep happening in America,” Benny Johnson wrote on X.
“California’s third-world ‘election systems’ need to be banned,” he added.
There is no documented evidence of voter fraud or election rigging in California or Los Angeles County, which administers the city’s elections.
The Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder’s Office has repeatedly said there is “no evidence” supporting claims of cheating, defending the integrity of the election system and rejecting allegations that fraud is occurring during the counting process.
The county has also encouraged observers to watch ballot processing from designated observation areas. Other heavy hitters, including Elon Musk, weighed in.
“The level of fraud here is mind-blowing,” Musk wrote while sharing an image of vote tabulation from the 2026 primary election.
Right-wing political commentator Gunther Eagleman also chimed in, writing: “California is straight-up STEALING the election from Spencer Pratt by counting votes WEEKS after Election Day!”
Republicans across the country have, in various ways, suggested that the voting process has been tampered with.
Speaker Mike Johnson also said California’s primary election “stinks to high heaven,” arguing that vote counting should not take so long.
“They are counting votes weeks after the election,” Johnson said at the Capitol on Monday. “I’m not saying it’s rigged. I’m saying it stinks to high heaven, and everybody knows that.”
California allows voting by mail, in person at vote centers, through secure drop boxes, and by provisional ballot. Election officials can process many mailed ballots before Election Day — verifying signatures and preparing envelopes for tabulation — but they cannot count the votes until polls close.
California’s lengthy vote-counting process stands in contrast to many other states that routinely report results within hours of polls closing.
States such as Florida and Texas typically produce near-complete unofficial results on election night because they process large numbers of mail ballots before Election Day and impose stricter deadlines for receiving ballots.
The state’s governor has dismissed claims of fraud.
“Trump says voter fraud should land people in prison. Agreed. And let’s start with the politicians spreading election lies with the goal of illegally interfering with counting ballots. In California, I just signed a law making that punishable with up to 3 years behind bars,” he said.
Pratt has not made any public comments since losing his bid for Los Angeles mayor.
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