• Bass versus Pratt

    From Adam H. Kerman@3:633/10 to All on Wed Jun 3 04:59:12 2026
    Bass is leading Pratt by 25,000 votes.

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  • From BTR1701@3:633/10 to All on Wed Jun 3 06:22:11 2026
    On Jun 2, 2026 at 9:59:12 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

    Bass is leading Pratt by 25,000 votes.

    This is just the primary. He only has to come in second and knock out West Coast Mamdani (Raman).



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  • From Adam H. Kerman@3:633/10 to All on Wed Jun 3 14:12:45 2026
    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    On Jun 2, 2026 at 9:59:12 PM PDT, Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

    Bass is leading Pratt by 25,000 votes.

    This is just the primary. He only has to come in second and knock out West >Coast Mamdani (Raman).

    I wanted to comment on her lead to suggest what might happen in the top
    two runoff, but yes, I should have listed other top-performing
    candidates.

    Right now, AP has

    Karen Ruth Bass 172,720 34.8%
    Spencer Pratt 151,149 30.4%

    a difference of 21,571 votes. Her lead shrank.

    Nithya Raman 110,848 22.3%

    No one else is even close.

    I thought candidates ran with party labels but AP lists everyone as
    nonpartisan in the race for mayor.

    https://apnews.com/projects/elections-2026/los-angeles-california-general-results-mayor/

    Whoa. Hilton is the top votegetter for governor for the moment.

    Steve Hilton GOP 1,386,966 27.8%
    Xavier Becerra Dem 1,267,070 25.4%
    Tom Steyer Dem 979,007 19.6%
    Chad Bianco GOP 566,679 11.3%

    None of the rest are close.

    Hilton had been a Fox News commentator and had been a political advisor
    to David Cameron; not sure what his expertise on UK affairs was.

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  • From Rhino@3:633/10 to All on Wed Jun 3 11:13:08 2026
    On 2026-06-03 10:12 a.m., Adam H. Kerman wrote:
    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    On Jun 2, 2026 at 9:59:12 PM PDT, Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

    Bass is leading Pratt by 25,000 votes.

    This is just the primary. He only has to come in second and knock out West >> Coast Mamdani (Raman).

    I wanted to comment on her lead to suggest what might happen in the top
    two runoff, but yes, I should have listed other top-performing
    candidates.

    Right now, AP has

    Karen Ruth Bass 172,720 34.8%
    Spencer Pratt 151,149 30.4%

    a difference of 21,571 votes. Her lead shrank.

    Nithya Raman 110,848 22.3%

    No one else is even close.

    I thought candidates ran with party labels but AP lists everyone as nonpartisan in the race for mayor.

    https://apnews.com/projects/elections-2026/los-angeles-california-general-results-mayor/

    Whoa. Hilton is the top votegetter for governor for the moment.

    Steve Hilton GOP 1,386,966 27.8%
    Xavier Becerra Dem 1,267,070 25.4%
    Tom Steyer Dem 979,007 19.6%
    Chad Bianco GOP 566,679 11.3%

    None of the rest are close.

    Hilton had been a Fox News commentator and had been a political advisor
    to David Cameron; not sure what his expertise on UK affairs was.

    Hilton was born and raised in the UK; he only came to the US 15 or 20
    years ago if memory serves. Triggernometry did an episode with him a few months back if you want a deep dive:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2rEHpmpV9A [61 minutes]

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  • From BTR1701@3:633/10 to All on Wed Jun 3 17:58:53 2026
    On Jun 3, 2026 at 7:12:45 AM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    On Jun 2, 2026 at 9:59:12 PM PDT, Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

    Bass is leading Pratt by 25,000 votes.

    This is just the primary. He only has to come in second and knock out West >> Coast Mamdani (Raman).

    I wanted to comment on her lead to suggest what might happen in the top
    two runoff, but yes, I should have listed other top-performing
    candidates.

    Right now, AP has

    Karen Ruth Bass 172,720 34.8%
    Spencer Pratt 151,149 30.4%

    a difference of 21,571 votes. Her lead shrank.

    Nithya Raman 110,848 22.3%

    No one else is even close.

    I thought candidates ran with party labels but AP lists everyone as nonpartisan in the race for mayor.


    https://apnews.com/projects/elections-2026/los-angeles-california-general-results-mayor/

    Whoa. Hilton is the top votegetter for governor for the moment.

    Steve Hilton GOP 1,386,966 27.8%
    Xavier Becerra Dem 1,267,070 25.4%
    Tom Steyer Dem 979,007 19.6%
    Chad Bianco GOP 566,679 11.3%

    None of the rest are close.

    Hilton had been a Fox News commentator and had been a political advisor
    to David Cameron; not sure what his expertise on UK affairs was.

    If he wins, we'll have a governor with a British accent.



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  • From BTR1701@3:633/10 to All on Wed Jun 3 18:21:32 2026
    On Jun 3, 2026 at 7:12:45 AM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    On Jun 2, 2026 at 9:59:12 PM PDT, Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

    Bass is leading Pratt by 25,000 votes.

    This is just the primary. He only has to come in second and knock out West >> Coast Mamdani (Raman).

    I wanted to comment on her lead to suggest what might happen in the top
    two runoff, but yes, I should have listed other top-performing
    candidates.

    Whoa. Hilton is the top votegetter for governor for the moment.

    Steve Hilton GOP 1,386,966 27.8%
    Xavier Becerra Dem 1,267,070 25.4%
    Tom Steyer Dem 979,007 19.6%
    Chad Bianco GOP 566,679 11.3%

    None of the rest are close.

    Looks like we dodged the Steyer bullet for the second time. I know I routinely say leftists are batshit crazy, but with Steyer there's no hyperbole there. He's a great big bag o' nuts.

    If Steyer had won governor, four years from now we'd all actually be looking back wistfully on the "good old days of Gavin Newsom".



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  • From Ian J. Ball@3:633/10 to All on Wed Jun 3 13:54:04 2026
    On 6/3/26 7:12 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    On Jun 2, 2026 at 9:59:12 PM PDT, Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

    Bass is leading Pratt by 25,000 votes.

    This is just the primary. He only has to come in second and knock out West >> Coast Mamdani (Raman).

    I wanted to comment on her lead to suggest what might happen in the top
    two runoff, but yes, I should have listed other top-performing
    candidates.

    Right now, AP has

    Karen Ruth Bass 172,720 34.8%
    Spencer Pratt 151,149 30.4%

    a difference of 21,571 votes. Her lead shrank.

    Nithya Raman 110,848 22.3%

    No one else is even close.

    I thought candidates ran with party labels but AP lists everyone as nonpartisan in the race for mayor.

    https://apnews.com/projects/elections-2026/los-angeles-california-general-results-mayor/

    Whoa. Hilton is the top votegetter for governor for the moment.

    Steve Hilton GOP 1,386,966 27.8%
    Xavier Becerra Dem 1,267,070 25.4%
    Tom Steyer Dem 979,007 19.6%
    Chad Bianco GOP 566,679 11.3%

    None of the rest are close.

    Don't worry - CA Dems are sure to "find" enough votes in the
    "outstanding ballots" to make sure neither Pratt nor Hilton make it to
    the runoff.

    Amazing how that always seems to happen.

    Hilton had been a Fox News commentator and had been a political advisor
    to David Cameron; not sure what his expertise on UK affairs was.


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  • From Ubiquitous@3:633/10 to All on Thu Jun 4 18:02:33 2026
    In article <10vocb0$3dal7$1@dont-email.me>, ahk@chinet.com wrote:

    Bass is leading Pratt by 25,000 votes.

    They have about a month to fix that after "counting" the mail-in votes.

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  • From Rhino@3:633/10 to All on Thu Jun 4 21:20:37 2026
    On 2026-06-03 1:58 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 3, 2026 at 7:12:45 AM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    On Jun 2, 2026 at 9:59:12 PM PDT, Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

    Bass is leading Pratt by 25,000 votes.

    This is just the primary. He only has to come in second and knock out West >>> Coast Mamdani (Raman).

    I wanted to comment on her lead to suggest what might happen in the top
    two runoff, but yes, I should have listed other top-performing
    candidates.

    Right now, AP has

    Karen Ruth Bass 172,720 34.8%
    Spencer Pratt 151,149 30.4%

    a difference of 21,571 votes. Her lead shrank.

    Nithya Raman 110,848 22.3%

    No one else is even close.

    I thought candidates ran with party labels but AP lists everyone as
    nonpartisan in the race for mayor.


    https://apnews.com/projects/elections-2026/los-angeles-california-general-results-mayor/

    Whoa. Hilton is the top votegetter for governor for the moment.

    Steve Hilton GOP 1,386,966 27.8%
    Xavier Becerra Dem 1,267,070 25.4%
    Tom Steyer Dem 979,007 19.6%
    Chad Bianco GOP 566,679 11.3%

    None of the rest are close.

    Hilton had been a Fox News commentator and had been a political advisor
    to David Cameron; not sure what his expertise on UK affairs was.

    If he wins, we'll have a governor with a British accent.


    A few years back, you had Ahnuld with his Austrian accent; understanding Hilton should be a piece of cake after that ;-)

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    Rhino

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