Spencer Pratt has drawn level in the polls with incumbent Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass.
A poll taken by the California post puts Pratt on 30.1%, compared to 29.5% for Bass, ahead of next week’s primary.
Socialist Nithya Raman is at third place on 23.4%.
Voters blame Bass for the city’s homelessness problem and lack of affordability, and say the city is heading in the wrong direction.
Pratt has surprising strength among Hispanic voters: he leads Bass 33% to 24% among this key demographic.
John McLaughlin, CEO of McLaughlin & Associates, who helped carry out the poll, said the race is far more competitive than many thought it would be.
“I think the mayor’s race is a lot more volatile,” McLaughlin said.
“Normally it’s a slam dunk for the Democrats, but it’s being driven by the negatives on Bass.
Just 32% of voters approve of Bass and her performance, while 66% disapprove—41% strongly.
Sixty-five percent hold an unfavourable view of her.
“Karen Bass has a huge disapproval, and she has a significant unfavorable rating,” McLaughlin said.
As The New York Post notes, “The former reality television star [Pratt] has electrified the race with his groundbreaking social-media focused campaign.
“Pratt’s support continues to surge among voters looking for a dramatic break from traditional Los Angeles politics.”
The polling also reveals that just 5% of voters remain undecided, down from 40% three weeks ago after the first mayoral debate.
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Hey, if I lived there, I would vote for him, I mean its commiefornia, but the best move is to keep them in place so they cant destroy the country, we have enough implants from the north east and left coast in the dirty south, yeah, these people are special kind of retarded
Example: You ask a new yank, Why did you move here????? They Reply: Ohh higher taxxes and crime. OK, Who you gonna vote for????? Them: Ohhhh, the same people that rose taxxes and crime.
Im not the smartest dude in the world, but know a whole lot about Re-gentrification , and not even that , I call it the 30 year cycle
The Real Life???? Where stuck a bunch of strangers in a house and filmed them??? One of them shids????? I was always at detention, outside, football / baseball practice, and my family had 1 tv always watching bs, so, when I come home Im showering up not careing what yall mfrs watching
and ask, Why were the sub burbs invented in first place???? They look confused
look, I could give a flying fuhhh about commiefornia politics, is that the mfr from the show whatever town they lived in before jersey shore on mtv???? is that the one messing with heidei montag????
granted, I would check up for like 2 minutes, but I was an mtv kid , quit watching in 1989