Can Viral Ads Make Spencer Pratt L.A.’s Next Mayor?
WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Find your perfect home on Realture.com. |
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| 0:22.3 | Based on average new for sale and rental listings July 24th through June 2025, number one trusted based on August 2025 proprietary survey |
| 0:28.3 | among real estate professionals. From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. |
| 0:39.1 | The political state of California can an upstart reality TV star who's become an internet |
| 0:45.9 | sensation stage an upset in the race for mayor of Los Angeles and who will emerge from |
| 0:52.6 | next week's primary race for governor of America's |
| 0:57.2 | largest state. Plus, Pope Leo the 14th writes 43,000 words on artificial intelligence and the |
| 1:05.5 | human condition. What has the Pope worried about this fast-moving technology. Welcome, I'm Paul as you go, |
| 1:13.8 | editor of the Wall Street Journal Opinion Pages, and this is our daily opinion podcast, the Potomac Watch. |
| 1:19.6 | I'm here with my colleagues, Alicia Finley, and Kyle Peterson. So let's start with the |
| 1:24.8 | California races first, which come to ahead in the primary next week, and focus first on the mayor's race of the giant city of Los Angeles, troubled city. |
| 1:37.5 | incumbent Karen Bass is seeking re-election. |
| 1:40.6 | City council member Nithia Rahman is challenging her from the left. |
| 1:45.6 | But the surprise is Spencer Prad, reality TV star, |
| 1:49.8 | who's had his home burned down in the Pacific Palisades area in January of 2025. |
| 1:55.8 | He is making a spirited challenge as a reformer. |
| 1:59.6 | And he's close enough in the polls that he might make it into the |
| 2:02.7 | final two in next week's primaries. Let's watch a couple of internet ads for Pratt that have been |
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