The latest ballot dump in Los Angeles put the nail in the coffin for Spencer Pratt and gave Democratic City Councilwoman Nithya Raman a roughly 22,000-vote lead.
Raman gained more than 33,000 votes in this batch. Pratt gained less than 15,000.
The Associated Press has called the race for Raman —six days after Election Day. Raman will face incumbent Mayor Karen Bass in a November runoff election.
The AP claims, “Large numbers of Democrats held onto their mail ballots and returned them in the race’s final days, which helps explain why Bass and Raman have been doing better than Pratt in the votes counted since primary day.”
Raman was trailing Pratt by about 40,000 votes on election night, but thanks to mail-in ballots that were inserted after election day, she closed the gap.
It can be recalled that Raman broke down in tears on election night with an emotional, would-be retirement speech at her election night watch party.
Hellbound and Down 