{"id":707212,"date":"2026-04-05T20:13:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T20:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/707212\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T20:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T20:13:15","slug":"spencer-pratt-surges-to-second-in-los-angeles-mayoral-race-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/707212\/","title":{"rendered":"Spencer Pratt surges to second in Los Angeles mayoral race poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">The reality TV star told Us Weekly: \u201cIt\u2019s worse than ever now because I still need to use fame to rebuild what I got to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI\u2019d be at peace if my insurance hadn\u2019t dropped us and I was rebuilding our house right now \u2026 I feel the most untethered to anything. The only things left are my kids and Heidi. And my parents, but they\u2019re such a wreck that you can\u2019t call my mom without her crying. I am in an abyss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">Pratt has vowed to overhaul the \u201cfundamentally broken\u201d system in Los Angeles if he gets elected as mayor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">He said: \u201cThe system in Los Angeles isn\u2019t struggling, it\u2019s fundamentally broken. It is a machine designed to protect the people at the top and the friends they exchange favours with while the rest of us drown in toxic smoke and ash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cBusiness as usual is a death sentence for Los Angeles, and I\u2019m done waiting for someone to take real action. That\u2019s why I am running for mayor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">Pratt promised to overhaul the city while speaking at the They Let Us Burn! protest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">He explained: \u201cThis is a mission, and we\u2019re gonna expose the system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe\u2019re going into every dark corner of LA politics and disinfecting the city with our life and when we are done, LA is going to be camera-ready again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">Pratt also slammed California Governor Gavin Newsom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">The TV star \u2013 who has been married to Montag since 2008 \u2013 said: \u201cGavin Newsom and the state of California created an insurance market so hostile that every major carrier stopped writing policies and dropped our families and our neighbours just before the sparks flew here in the Palisades.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The reality TV star told Us Weekly: \u201cIt\u2019s worse than ever now because I still need to use&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":707213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[4231,291135,1582,276,1412,2961,4230,224,5337,12176,14090,6566,4154,49208,6176,5613,10605,67159,447],"class_list":["post-707212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-angeles","tag-become","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-in","tag-la","tag-los","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-mayor","tag-mayoral","tag-place","tag-poll","tag-pratt","tag-race","tag-second","tag-spencer","tag-surges","tag-to"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116353932161770901","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}