Drew Carey went after Spencer Pratt in a blunt Threads post, calling him a “serial scammer” and urging Los Angeles voters to reconsider before the June primaries. Pratt, 42, has tied his campaign to anger over the 2025 Palisades wildfire and has also been pull
Drew Carey didn’t mince words in the days leading up to Los Angeles’s June primaries.
In a Threads post, the “Price is Right” host criticized Spencer Pratt’s mayoral run for Los Angeles and urged voters to reject him. “Anyone who votes for, or endorses Spencer Pratt for Mayor of LA needs to get their head out of their a–,” Carey wrote.
Carey framed his message as more than frustration with politics. “I understand being angry/unsatisfied, but at least get behind someone competent and not some serial scammer without a soul or moral compass,” he added. He then followed up with an even sharper line: “F–k this guy already.”
Pratt, 42, has been a vocal champion for Los Angeles residents since losing his home during the deadly 2025 Palisades wildfire. He launched his mayoral campaign in January with a central focus on ousting incumbent Mayor Karen Bass over what he described as mishandling of the LA fires.
The personal stakes of Pratt’s campaign have also spilled into the courts. Spencer Pratt and his wife. Heidi Montag. along with more than a dozen additional property owners. sued the city of Los Angeles and the Department of Water and Power (LADWP) earlier this year. The lawsuit blamed the city and LADWP for damages to their homes.
In the suit, plaintiffs accused LADWP of making “the conscious decision to operate the water supply system with the reservoir drained and unusable as a ‘cost-saving’ measure.”
Even as that legal fight continues, Pratt has continued pushing his candidacy close to Election Day. More than one week ahead of the primaries. Pratt urged residents to “think bigger for LA” in a post shared Sunday. In the same message, he wrote, “We don’t have to accept the filth and the decline. We have the greatest slice of heaven on Earth with our city, and we deserve better. Vote for Pratt. Vote for LA. Vote TODAY. Let’s clean this city together.”.
Pratt’s campaign has also been tangled in questions about party identity. His opponents have criticized his registered Republican status and a recent nod from President Donald Trump. Pratt’s team denied reports the former reality TV star is filming his bid for Los Angeles mayor.
Trump, meanwhile, addressed Pratt publicly last week at Joint Base Andrews. “Oh, I’d like to see him do well. He’s a character,” Trump told reporters. Trump also said he did not know Pratt personally. “I don’t know him. I assume he probably supports me. Does he support me?” Trump asked a reporter.
In the same comments. Trump suggested the California election may be difficult for candidates he supports. pointing to the state’s voting process. He questioned whether Pratt could win due to California’s “rigged” system. “I don’t know if, you know, if you have a rigged vote out there. That’s the problem. The votes are rigged. You have a really rigged vote in California,” Trump said. “You have all the mail-in ballots, everything else. Very hard to win because the elections are very dishonest. If we had Jesus Christ come down and count the votes. I would have won California because I do great with Hispanics. But it’s a rigged vote.”.
Despite Trump’s attention, Pratt has tried to steer the focus back to grievance and survival rather than party labels. Pratt has insisted he is running for the people, not for a political tribe. “Everyone is trying to claim me for their tribe,” he wrote to social media followers on Saturday. “There’s no R next to my name, there’s no D next to my name. I’m not part of a political party, because I hate politicians.”.
He added, “I’m just Spencer, husband to Heidi, father to Ryker and Gunner, and I’m a pissed off Angeleno who loves my city and is fed up with what corrupt politicians have done to her.”
Pratt’s campaign messaging has remained closely linked to the Palisades Fire and the year that followed it. He announced his candidacy for mayor of Los Angeles at a rally in Pacific Palisades on the one-year anniversary of the Palisades Fire, which destroyed homes including his own.
Los Angeles’s mayoral election is officially nonpartisan, even though Pratt is a registered Republican. If no candidate tops 50% in the June 2 primary, the top two finishers will face off in November.
Another candidate in the same race is LA council member Nithya Raman, who is also running against Republican Spencer Pratt for mayor of Los Angeles.
Representatives for Pratt and Carey did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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