Trump's candidate for the mayoralty of Los Angeles, Spencer Pratt, fell to third place in the city's primary elections this Sunday night, after a controversial update in the vote count overwhelmingly favored the Marxist councilwoman Nithya Raman. Thus, projections indicate that Raman will face off in the November runoff against the current mayor of Los Angeles, the ultra-democrat Karen Bass.
In the latest data load, Raman added more than 19,000 votes, while Bass garnered nearly 16,000 and Pratt received just under 8,500. 80% of that batch of mail-in ballots was captured by the Democrats. It is worth noting that, until Friday, the Trump-supporting candidate maintained a lead of nearly 21,000 votes over the far-left candidate, whom many call "the Mamdani of Los Angeles."
It mattered little that Pratt had dominated the in-person vote on election day; the mail-in ballots processed after election day ended up overwhelmingly benefiting the Democrats.
With an estimated 146,000 ballots still to be counted, Pratt was relegated behind Raman by a margin exceeding 3,000 votes, reversing a previous scenario in which the leftist leader was down by nearly 40,000 votes.
The Prosecutor's Office and the FBI investigate electoral fraud
Following Trump's orders, the first assistant federal prosecutor for the Central District of California, Bill Essayli, announced on Friday that his office is conducting "multiple investigations into electoral fraud" along with the FBI, as well as a "comprehensive audit of California's voter rolls" in coordination with the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice.
