{"id":94415,"date":"2026-06-02T05:42:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T05:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/bevan-will-pratts-online-fame-translate-into-votes-is-there-a-hidden-pratt-vote\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T05:42:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T05:42:24","slug":"bevan-will-pratts-online-fame-translate-into-votes-is-there-a-hidden-pratt-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/bevan-will-pratts-online-fame-translate-into-votes-is-there-a-hidden-pratt-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Bevan: Will Pratt&#8217;s Online Fame Translate Into Votes? Is There a &#8220;Hidden Pratt Vote&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The guys on Monday&#8217;s RCP Podcast discussed the mayor&#8217;s race in Los Angeles, where voters will pick the top two candidates to advance in tomorrow&#8217;s &#8220;jungle primary.&#8221;  <b>RCP Average: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolling.com\/polls\/mayor\/general\/2026\/california\/bass-vs-raman-vs-pratt-vs-huang-vs-miller\">2026 Los Angeles Mayor &#8211; Open Primary, June 2 (Bass: 26, Raman: 25, Pratt: 22)<\/a><\/b>  Does Spencer Pratt have a chance? &#8220;Of course!&#8221; Tom Bevan said. &#8220;I&#8217;m fascinated to find out if there is this &#8216;hidden Pratt vote&#8217; that&#8217;s out there.&#8221;  &#8220;Maybe they&#8217;re telling pollsters they&#8217;re undecided. Maybe they&#8217;re telling pollsters that they&#8217;re going to vote Democrat. Maybe they&#8217;re not answering their phones, but they go to the polls and they actually vote for Spencer Pratt,&#8221; he suggested. &#8220;It absolutely could happen, and we could see him outperform his polls by maybe a good number, or not.&#8221;  &#8220;Part of what&#8217;s complicating this is because there&#8217;s a Democratic machine out there,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;It&#8217;s not quite like a Chicago machine or a New York machine, but it still is organized.&#8221;  &#8220;And then you&#8217;ve got Spencer Pratt, who&#8217;s running basically a shoestring campaign that is existing online mostly. He doesn&#8217;t have the money to pay for ads that go on television, but he is blowing up the internet and getting a lot of publicity with all this AI-created stuff. Every day, he&#8217;s making headlines and winning eyeballs on the internet.&#8221;  &#8220;So we&#8217;ll find out if that actually translates into votes or if it&#8217;s just people watching their screens,&#8221; he said.   &#8220;His stuff starts on the internet, but he gets so much free media,&#8221; Andrew Walworth added.   &#8220;If he doesn&#8217;t make the runoff, he certainly seems to have jump-started his career&#8230; I see a talk show in his future,&#8221; Carl Cannon added.<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/06\/01\/bevan_will_pratts_online_fame_translate_into_votes_is_there_a_hidden_pratt_vote.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The guys on Monday&#8217;s RCP Podcast discussed the mayor&#8217;s race in Los Angeles, where voters will pick the top two candidates to advance in tomorrow&#8217;s &#8220;jungle primary.&#8221; RCP Average: 2026 Los Angeles Mayor &#8211; Open Primary, June 2 (Bass: 26, Raman: 25, Pratt: 22) Does Spencer Pratt have a chance? &#8220;Of course!&#8221; Tom Bevan said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23016,2914,2358,62,155,11943,29364,3184,28663,4705,5789],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}