Ted Cruz just said what every American with functioning eyeballs already knows — Los Angeles is a disaster, and the people running it are the ones who broke it. Meanwhile, former reality TV star Spencer Pratt is surging in the mayoral race because apparently being famous for MTV is now a better qualification than whatever Karen Bass has been doing. Which, to be fair, isn't a high bar.
Welcome to Los Angeles, 2026. Where the fires burn, the homeless multiply, and the mayor polls at a pathetic 35%.
Cruz laid it out beautifully in an interview with TMZ — yes, TMZ, because that's the level of seriousness LA politics deserves right now. "At the end of the day, you might be the most liberal person in the world," the Texas Senator said. "You might like 95% tax rates, but you may not want your kids being accosted, you may not want to have to step over human feces to walk to work. And at the end of the day, the policies of Karen Bass have failed."
Step over human feces to walk to work. That's not a right-wing talking point. That's a Tuesday in downtown LA.
The numbers tell the story. Mayor Karen Bass is sitting at just 35% support according to recent polling. City Councilwoman Nithya Raman and Spencer Pratt are tied at 23% each. Think about that for a second — a reality TV guy who lost his home in the Palisades fire is polling neck and neck with an actual sitting city councilwoman. In Los Angeles. The bluest of blue cities.
Pratt's been living in a Bel Air hotel and an Airstream trailer after the Palisades fire destroyed his home. Instead of sitting around feeling sorry for himself, he started making videos calling out the city's leadership on crime, homelessness, and the general collapse of basic governance. His April 29th video titled "They not like us" — mocking Bass and Raman's multimillion-dollar homes while regular Angelenos suffer — went absolutely viral.
Cruz noticed. "There's a reason they've gone viral because they speak to a real truth," he said, "which is tragically the policies of Karen Bass have been devastating for Los Angeles."
Devastating. Not "disappointing." Not "suboptimal." Devastating. And Cruz is right.
This is the city that watched entire neighborhoods burn while the mayor fumbled the response. This is the city where you can't walk two blocks without being approached by someone who clearly needs help that the city promised to provide and never did. This is the city that spends billions — with a B — on homelessness and somehow ends up with more homeless people every single year.
And now the voters are waking up. Even in the belly of the progressive beast, there's apparently a limit to how much failure people will tolerate before they start looking for literally anyone else. Spencer Pratt — a guy most famous for being on "The Hills" — is that anyone else. And honestly? Given what Bass has done to the city, we'd take a random name out of the phone book at this point.
When asked about whether a Trump endorsement would help or hurt in LA, Cruz was refreshingly honest: "I have no idea." Fair enough. But here's what we do know — the Democrat monopoly on cities like Los Angeles has produced nothing but crime, homelessness, filth, and fire. And for the first time in a long time, the voters seem to agree.
LA didn't break overnight, and it won't be fixed overnight. But the fact that a reality TV star with an Airstream trailer and a smartphone is giving the Democrat establishment a run for its money? That's not a fluke. That's a verdict.
As reported by LifeZette and the New York Post, the collapse of confidence in Karen Bass is real, measurable, and accelerating. Somewhere in that Airstream, Spencer Pratt is smiling.