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Spencer Pratt Deploys AI Ads, Bass Leads Poll at 30%

5/18/2026

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Spencer Pratt AI-Ads

Spencer Pratt has flooded Los Angeles mayoral race with AI-generated ads that portray Mayor Karen Bass as a villain.
Emerson College Poll shows Mayor Karen Bass at 30 % support, Spencer Pratt at 22 % and Nithya Raman at 19 %.
Fox News host and former Rep. Jason Chaffetz praised the ads, saying they will forever change political advertising.
Mayor Karen Bass called the ads 150 % fiction, scary, and warned they could provoke violence.

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Spencer Pratt AI-Ads

Spencer Pratt has flooded Los Angeles mayoral race with AI-generated ads that portray Mayor Karen Bass as a villain.
Emerson College Poll shows Mayor Karen Bass at 30 % support, Spencer Pratt at 22 % and Nithya Raman at 19 %.
Fox News host and former Rep. Jason Chaffetz praised the ads, saying they will forever change political advertising.
Mayor Karen Bass called the ads 150 % fiction, scary, and warned they could provoke violence.

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