Spencer Pratt has suggested he could leave Los Angeles if he misses out on the LA mayoral race to Karen Bass.
Pratt, known for appearing on early 2000s reality series The Hills, is making a pivot into politics as he eyes the mayor’s office, with the election due to take place later this year.
He’s aiming to oust incumbent Mayor Karen Bass, who faced backlash over her handling of the LA wildfires—an effort she later described as ‘botched’.
And if his campaign falls short, Pratt says he’s prepared to walk away from Los Angeles entirely, relocating to chase what he calls the American dream somewhere else.
During an appearance on the Adam Carolla Show, Pratt said: “I’m going to win the lawsuit against Gavin Newsom’s state park, and with that money, if I’m the mayor of Los Angeles, I will rebuild.
Spencer Pratt on what he’ll do if Karen Bass or Nithya Raman wins the mayoral election pic.twitter.com/VCUuTZwMXG
— The Adam Carolla Show (@AdamCarollaShow) May 16, 2026
“If Karen Bass gets reelected or Nithya [Raman] gets elected, I will be done with trying to live in LA.”
The 42-year-old continued: “I’ll take that money from the Newsom state park and the LADWP, and I’ll go somewhere that my kids will not have to see naked zombies, and I can have the last American dream somewhere. But I will not rebuild if these people are in charge, because what would I be putting money into?”
Pratt is positioning himself in a three-way contest with Bass and City Councilwoman Nithya Raman, and tensions between the candidates have been rising in recent weeks.
Raman recently labeled Pratt a ‘MAGA Republican’, a description he quickly rejected.
He said: “I represent all of Los Angeles. I do not represent a party.
“I don’t have a campaign manager. I don’t have campaign consultants. There’s no political party backing me.”
Although Pratt is a register Republican, he insists he isn’t running with formal party support and says his focus is on representing ‘all of Los Angeles’.
In a separate interview, he even drew an unexpected comparison between his own path and Barack Obama’s, telling NBC Los Angeles: “I have two awards from my community, President Obama actually didn’t even have awards when he was a community organizer.
“He was able to become a senator and then a president for eight years. So, I feel like him and I have the same experience.”
Pratt also told CBS News that the 44th POTUS had ‘no experience of running the whole entire country’ before winning the presidency for the first time in 2007.