Polls show that former reality TV personality turned Republican candidate for mayor of Los Angeles, Spencer Pratt, has a real shot to advance to November’s general election, which caused ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel to stage an intervention on Wednesday and plead with people not to vote for him.
During a lengthy lament on Pratt’s rise in the polls, Kimmel declared, “Then you get a guy who is on a reality show, who's on a lot of reality shows. His profession is to be the screaming jerk on reality shows, and his house burns down, and even though he had no private insurance on his house and doesn't believe in climate change, he is understandably upset about his house burning down. And since he's a moderately famous person, he gets attention. He's on the news, he's on social media, and for the first time in his life, people are agreeing with what he has to say. It's hard not to agree with what he has to say. He's angry about the same problems a lot of people here are angry about.”
Jimmy Kimmel is freaking out that Spencer Pratt may make it to the LA mayoral general election, "Then you get a guy who is on a reality show, who's on a lot of reality shows. His profession is to be the screaming jerk on reality shows and his house burns down. Even though he had… pic.twitter.com/RcHgr0sJSH
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However, Kimmel also claimed, “Does he have solutions to those problems? No. But at least he's acknowledging that they are problems. So, then this angry reality show star, who grew up wealthy and popular and is not very wealthy or popular anymore, really starts to enjoy the attention. He starts to think, ‘You know, I should be mayor.’ Which is a statement that should make everyone laugh. But not everyone is laughing. Not everyone sees this as a joke. Right now, if you believe the polls, 22 percent of them are going, ‘You know what? You should be mayor.’”
He then repeated the talking point that, “And not only are they telling him he should be mayor, they're even going so far as to give him money for his campaign. Some of which he immediately spent on moving into a $1,500 a night room at the Hotel Bel-Air. He's living at the Hotel Bel-Air at the same time he's running a video claiming he lives in a trailer on the burned-out lot where his house was. Which he is not. He is living at the Hotel Bel-Air and using campaign money to pay for that.”
Kimmel omitted that the reason why Pratt moved into the hotel was for security purposes, but nevertheless he further mourned, “And yet still there's a group of people, many of whom believe themselves to be liberals, who are so angry they're willing to overlook this.”
Later in his anti-Pratt spiel, Kimmel begged the other candidates in the race to be better, “And if he's one of the top two candidates after the primary next Tuesday, a week from tonight, he will be one of our two choices for mayor of Los Angeles. So if you don't want to vote for Karen Bass on June 2nd, I get it. But you better find somebody else to vote for. And preferably somebody who isn't wasting our time and money to get himself back on television, and for the rest of the candidates running for mayor, I hope you're paying attention to why you are currently trailing this person.”
Later, Kimmel pleads, "So if you don't want to vote for Karen Bass on June 2nd, I get it. But you better find somebody else to vote for. And preferably somebody who isn't wasting on time and money to get himself back on television and for the rest of the candidates running for… pic.twitter.com/PfijcmTMXJ
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Kimmel then played a clip of CNN’s Elex Michaelson asking Pratt, “Who is your political role model?" with Pratt answering, “Jesus Christ.”
After some awkward silence and exaggerated head nodding, Kimmel retorted, “Well. I couldn't agree more. Jesus Christ. What was Jesus's message? Was it ‘incarcerate the homeless’? Or was it ‘heal the sick with rose quartz’? Either way, good going, L.A., we did it again!”
It is unclear what Kimmel is referring to when he talks about incarcerating homeless people. It is likely he just made it up or is grossly misrepresenting Pratt’s actual plan. As for Pratt’s likely opponents. Should he advance, he would either face Bass or Councilmember Nithya Raman, who is a Democratic Socialists of America radical. It is one thing for Kimmel to criticize other Democrats for making Pratt possible, but it is another to go after the voters, especially when the other two options are an incompetent incumbent or radical socialist.
Here is a transcript for the May 27 show:
ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live!
5/27/2026
11:45 PM ET
JIMMY KIMMEL: Then you get a guy who is on a reality show, who's on a lot of reality shows. His profession is to be the screaming jerk on reality shows, and his house burns down, and even though he had no private insurance on his house and doesn't believe in climate change, he is understandably upset about his house burning down. And since he's a moderately famous person, he gets attention.
He's on the news, he's on social media, and for the first time in his life, people are agreeing with what he has to say. It's hard not to agree with what he has to say. He's angry about the same problems a lot of people here are angry about. Does he have solutions to those problems? No.
But at least he's acknowledging that they are problems. So, then this angry reality show star, who grew up wealthy and popular and is not very wealthy or popular anymore, really starts to enjoy the attention. He starts to think, “You know, I should be mayor.”
Which is a statement that should make everyone laugh. But not everyone is laughing. Not everyone sees this as a joke. Right now, if you believe the polls, 22 percent of them are going, “You know what? You should be mayor.”
And not only are they telling him he should be mayor, they're even going so far as to give him money for his campaign. Some of which he immediately spent on moving into a $1,500 a night room at the Hotel Bel-Air. He's living at the Hotel Bel-Air at the same time he's running a video claiming he lives in a trailer on the burned-out lot where his house was.
Which he is not. He is living at the Hotel Bel-Air and using campaign money to pay for that. And yet still there's a group of people, many of whom believe themselves to be liberals, who are so angry they're willing to overlook this.
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And if he's one of the top two candidates after the primary next Tuesday, a week from tonight, he will be one of our two choices for mayor of Los Angeles. So if you don't want to vote for Karen Bass on June 2nd, I get it. But you better find somebody else to vote for. And preferably somebody who isn't wasting our time and money to get himself back on television, and for the rest of the candidates running for mayor, I hope you're paying attention to why you are currently trailing this person.
ELEX MICHAELSON: Who is your political role model?
SPENCER PRATT: Jesus Christ.
KIMMEL: Well. I couldn't agree more. Jesus Christ. What was Jesus's message? Was it “incarcerate the homeless”? Or was it “heal the sick with rose quartz”? Either way, good going, L.A., we did it again!
