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L.A. Race Stays Local

Spencer Pratt rejects Trump’s backing in the Los Angeles mayoral election, saying the local race is about wildfire response and homelessness

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Former reality TV star and Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt rebuffed a potential endorsement from President Donald Trump, telling NBC News on Thursday, “I don’t need anyone’s endorsement but mothers’.

  1. Frame 1Spencer Pratt rejects Trump’s backing in the Los Angeles mayoral election, saying the local race is about wildfire response and homelessness.
  2. Frame 2Trump had said he wanted Pratt to do well and assumed the reality-TV candidate probably supported him.
  3. Frame 3Pratt tells NBC the endorsement fight is what ruins local elections when national politics swallows City Hall problems.
  4. Frame 4His campaign targets Mayor Karen Bass over wildfire management and homelessness after his own house burned in the L.A. fires.
  5. Frame 5Next pressure point: voters decide whether celebrity attention helps fix city services or turns the mayor’s race into a proxy fight.
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May 28, 8:50 PM EDT
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