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CNN Projects Raman, Not Pratt, Will Face Bass in L.A. Mayor's Race

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

CNN can now project that Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and City Councilwoman Nithya Raman will be on the runoff in November, after Raman, a progressive, defeated Trump-backed, former reality show star Spencer Pratt in the primary.  Also, a look at the president's meltdown where he claimed, yet again with no evidence, of "rigged elections” with the vote counting continuing in California.  Plus, tomorrow's likely Maine Democratic Senate primary winner Graham Platner and whether voters will look past his multiple controversies this November. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good evening from the newsroom, topping our CNN global coverage tonight with the updated

0:06.0

results just in the president's meltdown over California's primary, claims yet again with no

0:10.9

evidence presented of rigged elections. Now, keep it am honest, there's certainly plenty to take issue with.

0:16.7

Here are the numbers in the L.A. Mayor's race, and CNN can now project that Mayor Karen Bass and city councilwoman Nithia Rahman will go on to the runoff in November, defeating Trump Act former reality show star Spencer Pratt.

0:30.6

But it took six days to get there. That's because California allows mail-in ballots to be counted if they're postmarked by election day and arrive by tomorrow.

0:39.3

That's why this took so long and is taking so long for other races.

0:43.2

No one disputes that.

0:44.3

Plenty people don't like it.

0:45.4

Some even believe it invites mistrust in elections.

0:48.2

But what the president is doing, and he has done in the past, without evidence evidence is actively sowing distrust.

0:55.0

Here he is today on social media.

0:57.0

Not possible for Spencer Pratt to have lost the L.A. runoffs after the big lead he had.

1:02.0

Third World Nation rigged elections.

1:04.4

And here he is on NBC's Meet the Press over the weekend, talking first about the 2020 election and then now.

1:11.1

The election was rigged.

1:12.9

It was a dirty election.

1:14.4

And it's happening again right now in California.

1:17.5

It's happening right now in California.

1:20.9

Right now it's looking, look at what's happening in California.

1:24.2

It's four days.

1:25.2

In California, it's, no, they're not there. They're dropping fast because it's a rigged election. Let me tell you, it's four days, and they aren't even close to coming up with them. That's how they cap the votes in California. You know why they're doing that? Because they're cheating on the election. Do you have evidence to support that? All I have to do is look. All I have to do is look. And I listen,

1:45.0

and I listen to people, and let's see what happens. Well, keep it I'm honest, there is no evidence,

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