How Teachers’ Unions Torpedoed Spencer Pratt And Picked L.A.’s Mayor (opens in new tab)

On June 2, Karen Bass emerged from the Los Angeles primary having secured roughly 34% of the vote. The math is damning: two-thirds of Angelenos essentially voted to fire their mayor. Yet, the machine delivered a runoff regardless. This November, Bass will square off against Nithya Raman, a councilwoman deeply aligned with the city’s Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) bloc. Spencer Pratt, the Palisades fire survivor who campaigned as the authentic outsider, was relegated to third place and...