Over the past week, Americans have witnessed one of the most stunning outcomes in history for a high-profile election. In the contest to decide who will become the next Mayor of Los Angeles, City Councilwoman Nithya Raman stormed from a distant third-place finish on election night and has now secured the second spot in the runoff election this November after a late surge of mail-in ballots returned shockingly high margins of support for the progressive candidate.
The sudden turnaround for Raman, which has come at the expense of anti-establishment candidate Spencer Pratt, has generated plenty of speculation about rampant fraud in California’s election system. Ultimately, however, Los Angeles is in trouble either way.
If Raman is indeed the beneficiary of a massive fraud scheme designed to lock Pratt out of the runoff, then democracy is dead in America’s second-largest city and most populous state. Despite mounting outrage, there is currently no substantive effort underway to challenge the results – meaning that if Democrats are engaged in large-scale cheating, they are getting away with it.
Any concrete evidence of fraud would be difficult to obtain given California’s refusal to allow a federal audit of its voter rolls. But there are nonetheless plenty of suspicious circumstances seeming to support the theory that the election was not on the up-and-up.
By the time the clock struck midnight on primary day (June 2), Raman trailed Pratt by more than 24,000 votes, with incumbent Mayor Karen Bass holding a healthy lead over both candidates. Overall, Bass was winning about 34 percent of the vote, compared to about 28 percent for Pratt and 22 percent for Raman with roughly 64 percent of the vote counted.
Raman was performing so poorly, in fact, that she gave a tear-filled concession speech, apologizing to her family for failing.
But then came the usual flood of mail-in ballots. Over the next two days, Raman won an astonishing 41 percent of the votes counted – nearly doubling the percentage she won from in-person votes on Election Day.
Some ballot drops containing tens of thousands of votes allegedly returned zero for Pratt – a virtual impossibility. Moreover, every single L.A. City Council district showed thousands more voters for mayor than governor – meaning that tens of thousands of people voted for mayor but left their vote for governor blank.
As Pratt himself noted, the swing from election night to when the race was called for Raman by most outlets earlier this week was about 43,000 votes – the same as the number of homeless people in Los Angeles. Raman’s mail-in ballot success was allegedly fueled by votes from Skid Row, the most notorious area of the city for homeless encampments.
The possibility that the Democrat Party machine used mass ballot harvesting and glaringly insecure mail-in voting infrastructure to rig the election is grim indeed. But the prospect that the election was completely legitimate is perhaps just as alarming.
Lost in all the controversy over who came in second was the fact that Bass easily came in first and will be heavily favored in the runoff. We are just 18 months removed from huge swaths of the city burning in wildfires that killed more than 400 people – fires that her government failed to prepare for. Bass was out of the country when the blazes began and has taken zero responsibility for her failures.
Raman was also running to the left of Bass – a woman who trained in terrorist tactics with communist revolutionaries in Cuba during the Cold War. The fact that Raman makes Bass look like the moderate in the race speaks to just how extreme Raman is.
Raman has specifically opposed a bill banning homeless encampments within 500 feet of schools (but became outraged when a fake encampment was set up near her own home in protest), gone on a podcast with radical leftist Hasan Piker who said America deserved 9/11, and led the City Council’s committee on homelessness as L.A.’s homelessness crisis exploded to unimaginable proportions.
If the election was completely legitimate as Democrats claim, it means that Angelenos decided that the best two candidates to be their next mayor are the incumbent who already allowed the city to quite literally burn to the ground and a challenger who has embraced the most extreme elements of her party and been a total failure in office (which is perhaps why Raman came in third in her own district).
While the media tried to portray Pratt as an ally of President Donald Trump and mainstream Republican, he didn’t run as either. His campaign was entirely focused on getting homeless people off the streets and into drug rehab centers, making neighborhoods safe for families, stopping the rampant property crime, and holding the city’s failed leadership accountable. Yet voters apparently rejected that message for more of the same policies that have already made large portions of Los Angeles look more like a third-world slum than a modern American city.
Seen through this lens, the voter fraud scenario might actually be preferable for the L.A. residents who still care about saving their city instead of letting it further decay in a swamp of failed left-wing policies. Either way, it looks like the City of Angels hasn’t yet overcome its demons.
Shane Harris is the Editor-in-Chief of AMAC Newsline. You can follow him on X @shaneharris513.
Surprise! Surprise! Surprise! says Gomer Pyle. Most of the country already knew the outcome of this rigged election against the Republican candidate. It is a shame that this corruption will continue in all blue states and spread to the red states. People move out but keep their political allegiance.
So many of these leftist creeps SHOULD be in JAIL! Newsome and Bass would be a good start in California.
Of course they cheated! Their entire election process has purposely been set up to keep conservatives from winning…ever. So now they have 2 Dem/Commies running against each other for Mayor of LA and for governor. How ridiculous is that? In other words why should a Republican even run for office? That state reminds me of the crime-ridden, fraudulent city that Rome became before its downfall. My family lives in AZ and we use to have beach vacations in CA often but no longer. I know the states are responsible for their elections but it seems as if the Feds could intervene if our country’s Constitution is not being upheld.
It’s a sad day for Angelo’s who grew up loving it here, only to see it fall apart under the weight of incompetence and corruption. We are indeed becoming a third world country.
Did somebody have to do a zoom meeting with Captain Obvious to come to the conclusion that LA’s in trouble? How about all of California? How about Washington State, New York State Oregon State? They’re all in trouble! What do they have in common they’re all run by the devil’s party the Democrats. The party of victims and losers. Everything the Democrats touch is a disaster and every decision they make is a bad one. Then they spend all the rest of their time trying to blame somebody else or Donald Trump. Seriously you can’t make this stuff up. You can’t even have an intelligent conversation with someone that doesn’t know what a woman is
Democracy in CA is dead as long as dumbocRAT’s remain in office
I have many clients who escaped communist and socialist countries and discovered the GREATNESS of a free, Constitutional Republic. All of them tell me, with great worry, that what they currently see going on in America is exactly what happened as their country of origin slipped into the ideologies they felt obligated to flee. They suggest that there is nowhere left to go.
Once again, Mr. Harris, uses the correct words, “Suspicious circumstances”, describing the obvious election problems for the voters. If we’re not allowed to show the fraud, as was the case in the 2020 election, why would it ever change. When there are no consequences, the fraud will continue. Many will deduct their vote doesn’t count.
Of course in 2020, COVID, allowed so many avenues for changes in the voting laws, but never before were so many signed affidavits, ignored by the state legislators and the state courts. I say, NO ballot harvesting, paper ballots, and end of election day count. This Ca. election process is an outrage.
Hey, if it worked in 2020 against Trump, why not use the same tactics to ensure Spencer Pratt doesn’t face Karen Bass in November? I moved out of California in 2023, and lack of voting integrity was part of it. Conservatives, both Republicans and independents, really have no voice in how all aspects of California government are run. Democrats and left-leaning voters outnumber us, and some voters are low-information/low-IQ who will vote for the person with a “D” after their name without doing any research into what these candidates stand for and how it will ultimately affect them. Even so, they still cheat to make sure they get power and keep it. The best thing conservatives can do is vote with their feet like I did.
I have lived all my life in CA. People keep saying “don’t just leave, stay and fight”. How can you fight if you don’t even have fair and honest elections. It is like a communist takeover. I told one person when the made fun of CA people leaving. I told him that I’m more conservative than he is. Then he asked, “Well, do you vote”. Never missed a vote and never voted for a democrat. But now, what difference does it make?
Of course its Fraud. Are you retarded ?
The DOJ needs to force itself into the voter audit panels in la, they must demand an audit and investigate.
If California or la deny the Federal government access to voter rosters the gov must cut financial assistance period.
We can not support blatant voter fraud. For cnn a liberal socialist network to question the results, it just shows how crooked it is
Once again we find that a conservative candidate has been cheated out of being voted into a race or an office. Is it any wonder that people are leaving the State of California in droves? The election clearly has been the object of cheating with Pratt not receiving ANY votes in return of thousands of ballots? That’s a mathematical impossibly! LORD help the Angelinans, and LORD help our country, and keep us safe from democrat leaders.
So no one voted for bass with these “surprise mail in ballots”???? I CALL BS ON califorication….
Fraudulent elections in CA and other dem states is alive and doing well. No matter how you word it there is no other explanation. All the ballots counted a week later were harvested and filled out by the progressives members of the DNC. With support from Soros. Will anything happen?of course not. The democrats are all pro fraud and grift and overthrowing this country. Like SPLC they blame it on Trump. Everything is Trump’s fault. But this election in CA showed fraud. People voted for Raman but left the vote for governor blank. Plus she lost in her own district. What more proof do we need plus a crooked incumbent like Bass got the most votes?. Are the citizens that stupid in CA to vote her back in? I don’t think so but the thousands of illegals got to vote in that primary. The homeless as well. Only those filling out the ballot forgot to fill out the full ballot. But oversight or an audit of the ballots is not allowed. To me this was not an election it was an in your face to the rest of the country we here in CA do what we want. Plus to show up President Trump to say what are you going to do about it? When are the electorate going to rise up before we are being ruled by the communist factions in this country. The democrats lie and keep on lying. Jill Biden’s book shows how far they are willing to go to hide the truth. We could see Autopen Joe was declining every time he was in public. Kameltoe wasn’t presidential material either. At least Joe had an excuse for no brain power. What was hers? The billionaires played with them and got things passed to make more money. And now they accuse Trump of doing the same thing. I only will say we are better off under Trump than Biden and Obama combined.
Nothing good lasts forever. America’s days are numbered, folks. Congress, specifically the senate, won’t vote for secure elections. Those establishment types and RINOs need to be voted out, but probably won’t be. It may take a few years but it will only get worse unless a miracle happens. God’s plan moves forward which will take America’s influence out of the world. It feels like the Rapture will be taking place in the near future. That’s probably what the big UFO/UAP disclosure is preparing for – ALIEN ABDUCTION the world will be told. Put your faith in Jesus Christ before it’s too late. Don’t get left behind!!
The FBI needs to seize these ballots for a forensic audit. Check addresses, check citizenship. Isn’t it odd Ca would not purge dead people off voter rolls? How many dead people voted. Mass mail and ballot harvesting need to be illegal with heavy penalties and jail time.
Only In Cali. Can Skid Row Be A Lagit Address.
Where on earth did you get 400 people killed. I’ve read 12 or maybe 25? Believe me I think Karen Bass is a JOKE and has blood on her hands due to the 12 (And Gavin Newsom has blood on his hands also due to Paradise and other fires in Northern California where I live – this state is INSANE.) But it does not help to exaggerate number of deaths – there is NO need to exaggerate anything about this dumpster fire of a state.
Sounds like Michigan in 2020. Trump was ahead by a number which could not be beaten. However, throughout the night, it was beaten by the same kind of ballots LA turned in. One vote – for brandon – with no other people being voted for – by the thousands. They were likely copied on a machine, but we know what happened to the protests about this don’t we? They were doxed, ridiculed, intimidated, and told they were racists. Many people are still suffering from this….Rudy Juliani for one. 2020 was the most corrupt election I’ve seen in my lifetime and I’ve seen many. Now maybe that will be surpassed by LA, and if LA gets away with this, God help our nation because we will have one party which has turned completely evil.
As to be expected, there would be no “Democrat” left standing, had they not get to where they are by cheating, which has been going on in Ed. system for decades, receiving a diploma if no earned is cheating, being admitted to school without entry exam, on color of the skin or sex is cheating. Cal. “vote” result is the toxic grand total .
Just another illustration that between the party system and the regulatory bureaucracy our country is facing the emergence of a parallel system of government that is about to replace our constitutional republic based on the consent of the governed with a technocratic authoritarian top down system of government based on the global fascist/communist idea of corporate-governmental partnership where the power rests with the political and corporate elite, and the idea that our rights are no longer coming from God but the quaint, and absurd idea that they are now mere privileges doled out by an almighty, all knowing, all powerful government. Shameful!
Absolutely Fraud! But we can’t give up! It needs to be rooted out and heads will roll. Otherwise. CA is doomed!
Democrats can’t win without cheating.
By the end of election DAY, the democrats knew four things.
1) The current vote counts (In person and mail-in already received)
2) Exactly who voted already
3) How many votes they needed for their desired outcome
4) Exactly who’s names on the corrupted voter roles they could use to create the fraudulent ballots.
All they needed then was a few days to generate and deliver the votes for counting. And that’s something the California laws provide is spades.
Anyone who thinks that election wasn’t rigged is an idiot or a democrat, but then I’m repeating myself.
If the election officials in charge of this election were put in jail until someone talks,the truth will come out.
The chips will fall where they will, but I hope there is an investigation that’s legitimate. Homeless voters? Not likely on their own.
If it could be proven the federal government has clean hands, it should move legally to investigate this particular suspicion of fraud and take what steps are necessary to determine the validity of the election—prosecute culprits if discovered. Unfortunately, that group of organizations is suspect, also.
LA deserves this
Voted for Hilton this election
Rigged elections
Bias data
Vote the Machine way
Machine Run CA System
One sided for Dems
Voters DONT Matter
Illegal ballots used
Ballot harvesting
Purge CA State Govt to fix up state BUT NO 1 cares
Too few left may have voted for Hilton, Pratt this cycle vs those who left state
“If Raman is indeed the beneficiary of a massive fraud scheme designed to lock Pratt out of the runoff, then democracy is dead in America’s second-largest city and most populous state.”
I respectfully disagree! The fraud in Kalifornia is clear evidence that “democracy” is in full control of the whole political theater in that state.
Democracy is simply an elected dictatorship, or as James Madison put it in Federalist 10, mob rule. He argued that democracies “have ever been incompatible with personal security or the rights of property.”
There is no personal security in your vote when mobster democrats can cheat openly in the light of day to control elections.
This country is a Constitutional Republic. We give up that argument when we use the preferred language of the left and call the United States a democracy. Our forefathers were willing to die to create this most free and independent of nations. Do them a favor and respect what they, with divine guidance, have created.
The United States of America is a Constitutional Republic! Get it right or stop pretending you’re a conservative.
The demo-rats will stop at nothing to bow down to socialist-communist ideology! Bet there’s an outside English influence…. Why the hell can’t this be stopped? Millions weekly to the Taliban, stolen elections, fraud on a scale unprecedented, gaslighting 1/2 of America by the media & politicians! WTH!!!!
Absolutely FRAUD..
Vote buying with drugs and cash is alive and well in the skid row area of Los Angeles. It is documented in film – why couldn’t the results be enough to question the mayor’s race?
Interesting – did Raman gain votes on Bass in a manner similar to how she gained on Pratt or did Bass widen her lead (as one might expect of the mail in votes were coming from such heavily democratic areas)?
Frankly, I’m done feeling sorry for these blue cities and states that keep electing these half baked progressive/liberals to office. In New York, where they voted to put a socialist/communist mayor in office, they already got a 9.5 percent increase in property taxes – when they elected him over “affordability” issues. LA looks like the same deal. Let them live with their choices, but I don’t want to even hear about any of my federal tax money going to bail them out. I don’t get how brainless people can be.
Anyone with a bit of a brain can figure out this is voter fraud. The feds should be on this NOW. Come on Kash, this is why you are in office.
I’m so glad I don’t live in Los Angeles and California!
It is rotten to the core and is lost as a state in the USA!
Look for Dark Money Influence. The only explanation, I really can’t believe that Los Angelenos are that dumb.
LA fell off the left cliff completely.
Trump should step in.
Well Shane not on the up and up really ?? How about criminal! Stupid does is what stupid gets . Best advice to Mr .Pratt and any others is to leave the state NOW!! And America not a penny to that nutjob state . Don’t bring your California dreaming ideas along either.
All the commies in California can vote illegally for bass or the other person. If they think that the rest of the USA a does not see what is going on YOU ARE WRONG!!! THE COMMIES ARE SO BRAINWASHED AGAINST DJT THAT THEY WOULDN’T SEE HEAR OR KNOW THE TRUTH IT IT HIT THEM IN THE FACE!! WELL I WILL TELL YOU IF YOU WANT SOMETHING YOU HAVE TO WORK FOR IT!!!!! WHAT A NOVEL CONCEPT HUH??!! GRIFTERS ALWAYS THINK THEY DESERVE MORE!! NOT HARDLY!!!!!!!!! BUT THE GOVERNMENT SANCTIONED THEIVES——-NEWSCUM,PRITZKER,HOCHUL,MAMDONI,SCHUMER,AOC,PELOSI, AND PLATNER!!! YOU ALL WANT TO BLAME DJT BUT THIS GOVRNMENT WAS ON THE DOWNWARD TRIP LONG BEFORE HIM!!! HOW LONG HAS BERNIE BEEN IN THE SENATE?? THESE PEOPLE WHO HAVE TDS ARE NOT THE PROBLEM SOLVERS THEY ARE ALLUDING TO DURING ELECTION TIME!! AT THE SPLC HEARING IN CONGRESS THIS AM THE LIBS WERE ALL TEARING DOWN DJT!! ALL THE PROBLEMS SINCE 2016 IS BECAUSE DJT IS A BAD MAN!! AND ALL OF HIS APPOINTMENTS ARE FALSE FLAGS!! THEY ARE ONLY INTERESTED IN EPSTEIN!!! THESE PEOPLE ARE UNWORTHY OF THEIR GOVERNMENT POSITIONS!!! I SAY DRAIN THE SWAMP!!! AMEN MAGA MAGA MAGA
I know the answer to what is going on in Californiicator. VOTER FRAUD, I am not a rocket SCIENTIST.
Absolutely Fraud!
If California refuses to allow a Federal Audit then it should not be allowed to vote in any Federal Elections! Leave those crooks to play with themselves but not able to import their corruption on the rest of the Nation!
California politicians are so corrupt there is nothing more to say. SAD!!
LA has been a marginal slum for many decades. & years in the 1970’s was enough for me.
Everything about California is corrupt. Cheaters and liars and no one will take accountability. No wonder so many businesses are leaving.
This is what happens when you let a state get flooded with ungrateful foreigners. All they’re doing is essentially trying to turn, in this case California, into a more competent version of the dump(s) they came from. The demolition crats have allowed this flooding to take place and are all on board making it happen.
Once again, no big surprise here. It’s disgusting. Well, no worries, they’ll reelect Bass.