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\n\tThe star of a long-running reality show is looking poised for a fresh episode in the Los Angeles mayoral race.<\/p>\n

With about half the votes counted, The Hills<\/em> star-turned-political gadfly Spencer Pratt sat comfortably in second place with 30% of the vote, ahead of his third-place rival, progressive City Council member Nithya Raman, by nine points. If the totals were to hold \u2014 and a lot of ballots still need to be counted \u2014 it would set up a made-for-vintage-MTV showdown between Pratt and incumbent Karen Bass, who sits in first place with 37%.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe general election battle between the two would be one of the fiercest and most colorful the city has seen in decades. Pratt has repeatedly gone after Bass in the primary campaign, reposting videos of her depicted as The Joker and deriding her response to the wildfires, homelessness and the city\u2019s housing crisis. After previously ignoring hm, Bass has recently gone after Pratt too,\u00a0calling him\u00a0a \u201cTV reality star villain.\u201d Pratt has received the seal of approval of another reality star-turned-politician, Donald Trump, though\u00a0rebuffed\u00a0the endorsement.<\/p>\n

The primary race is far from over, however. Later ballots tend to skew Democratic, and if Raman were even within striking distance by midnight Tuesday she could pull past Pratt when all is said and done.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If Raman were to go down it would be a rebuff for progressives in the city, though it would also stir up some Monday-morning quarterbacking about the decision of\u00a0Rae Huang, a Democratic Socialist of America candidate, to stay in the race and siphon votes from Raman, giving Pratt the two-spot. It is all but impossible for Bass to surge past 50%, which she would need to avoid a runoff.<\/p>\n

Despite Pratt\u2019s entertainment bona fides, it was Bass who sought to position herself as the candidate of Hollywood in her speech to supporters Tuesday night. She called L.A. \u201cthe creative capital of the world\u2019 and decried an \u201cindustry that was leaving but we are bringing it back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pratt, for his part, has kept Hollywood or at least the media at bay \u2014 he appeared to ban them from covering his election-night party at Don Antonio\u2019s in Sawtelle, according to two people on the ground,\u00a0in contravention of longstanding election-night practice but\u00a0in keeping with his anti-elites theme.<\/p>\n

In the California governor\u2019s race, another critic of Democratic incumbents has turned out a strong showing. Former Fox News host Steve Hilton \u2014 like Pratt a TV figure who has never run for elected office \u2014 had inched into the lead with about half the ballots counted, just one point ahead of Democrat Xavier Becerra and a full seven points ahead of progressive Democrat Tom Steyer. <\/p>\n

\n\tShould results hold, it would set up a general election between the moderate Democrat and former California AG Becerra, an establishment candidate, and the British Hilton, the political upstart who also has Trump\u2019s endorsement. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tHilton has run a race lambasting incumbent Democrats, particularly Governor Gavin Newsom, and campaigned on a traditional conservative platform of lower taxes and fewer regulations. He has said he would raise the film tax credit ceiling to as high as 60%. In his speech to supporters, Hilton nodded to his England-born status. \u201cI know some of you who are watching thinking \u2018who is this guy with a funny accent thinking he can be governor,’\u201d then segueing into a reference to Arnold Schwarzenegger and a conversation he had with him about becoming governor. \u201cChange is coming,\u201d he chanted at his rally.<\/p>\n

Steyer had staked out a very different and more activist government position, arguing for more climate regulations, more worker protections and novel proposals such as the \u201ctoken tax,\u201d which would charge people for AI usage and put the money in a pot for displaced workers. Some polls had put the billionaire entrepreneur in second place in the days leading up to the race. <\/p>\n

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\n\tBut the candidate \u2014 who had spent more than $200 million of his own money on the campaign, the most of any candidate this primary season nationwide \u2014 seems to be sputtering with voters in the early going, another rebuff of progressives in California.<\/p>\n

\n\tBecerra continued to ride a late-season wave that has seen him go from single digits all the way to the top of the heap in gis bid to becomes the state\u2019s first Latino governor.<\/p>\n

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\nMore to come\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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