JUST IN: First Ballot Dump in Los Angeles Mayor Race Puts Spencer Pratt in Position to Force Run-Off With Karen Bass – Mail-in Votes Expected to Arrive DAYS After Election (VIDEO)

Highly popular reality TV star-turned-mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt appears to be on track to advance past the open primary for Los Angeles Mayor to face Incumbent Mayor Karen Bass in the November runoff election. 

That is, if they don’t rig the election with fraudulent late mail-in ballots.

Pratt is currently leading Democrat LA City Councilwoman Nithya Raman and trailing Karen Bass by a slim margin.

The two top vote-getters will advance to a runoff if no candidate receives over 50% of the vote.

NBC’s Steve Kornacki is reporting live on the results tonight.

Roughly 40% of the vote totals were released at approximately 11:20 pm ET, showing Spencer Pratt in second place, trailing incumbent Mayor Karen Bass by just 10 points in the three-way race. He further led Nithya Raman by nearly eight points, putting Pratt in a position to force a runoff between himself and Bass.

Kornacki reports that the in-person vote is expected to swing heavily away from Bass and in favor of Pratt. “If Pratt does do well there, as we’ve seen with Independent and non-Democratic candidates in the past in LA, he could narrow that margin with Bass, and I think more critically for him, he could add to that pad between himself and Raman,” Kornacki said.

Still, the late-arriving mail-in votes, which are expected to be roughly a third of the total vote, could take days to arrive under California’s lawless vote-by-mail system.

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At 11:45 pm ET, after in-person mail-in ballot drop-offs, Pratt had closed in on Bass and extended his lead over Raman with 30.3% of the roughly 310,000 votes counted. Additional vote totals are expected to be released throughout the night at 12 am ET and 1 am ET.

Pratt is expected to force a runoff election, according to the polls.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, a new poll conducted between May 26 and May 28 showed Pratt actually leading Bass in deep-blue Los Angeles.

IT BEGINS: Spencer Pratt Overtakes Karen Bass in New Poll for Los Angeles Mayor

This is a developing story. 

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