Spencer Pratt Emerges as Top Threat to Bass

Former reality star - who- is surprisingly the biggest threat to incumbent mayor according to her polling.

 An email was sent on Thursday by the Bass campaign advisor Douglas Herman to 'interested parties' as it stated that the campaign's internal pollster, Binder Research, currently shows Pratt in the position to challenge Bass in the November runoff election according to TMZ.

The letter was obtained by the publication as they report on Monday that it also targets LA City Councilmember Nithya Raman who is a progressive candidate that entered the race late and is widely viewed as a key challenger.

Campaign advisor Herman argued that Raman is not even close to being at the level of newly-elected Mayor Zohran Mamdani when it comes to 'name awareness, unified base of favorable appeal' in LA.

The 2026 Los Angeles Mayoral election will be held on June 2, 2026 and could be won by a candidate with receiving more than 50 percent of the vote.

If 50 percent is not reached than it will move to a runoff between the top two candidates during the in November.

Pratt was inspired to run for mayor of LA after he and wife Heidi Montag . 

He announced his campaign on the one-year anniversary of the fires in January at a protest by Palisades residents, called They Let Us Burn! 

'Yes, it’s official. Papers are filed and campaign is open,' he captioned the post before directing his followers to his campaign website.

Not only was the couple's residence

Pratt shared a photo of the little that remained of his parent's house to his Instagram Stories.

'My parents house gone,' he wrote along with a string of crying emojis.

Other celebrities to have lost their homes in the fires include Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Mandy Moore, Paris Hilton, Anthony Hopkins, Miles Teller, and Leighton Meester.

The devastating Pacific Palisades fire destroyed 7,000 homes and businesses in what was one of LA's most exclusive suburbs, killing 12 people and displacing nearly 100,000 residents. The cost of the wildfire has been put at $28 billion.

The Pacific Palisades fire — one of the wildfires that struck Los Angeles County in January 2025 — burned for about 31 days before it was contained.

Meanwhile, Pratt's wife Montag revealed that they are still in a state of limbo when it comes to their next place to call home.  

In an interview with news website Gold Derby last week, Montag, 39, revealed they were unable to afford reconstructing their residence and were now 'kind of displaced.'   

'Unfortunately for rebuilding, we just don't have the finances. We barely could pay the mortgage on that house,' Montag said. 

'We spent our whole careers to put a down payment on it. So we're unfortunately in a place where we aren't looking to rebuild and we're not really sure where to go. We're kind of displaced at the moment.

'A lot of the community is in the same position, and that's just unfortunate. People don't realize that a lot of people can't rebuild. A lot of families bought their houses 40 or 50 years ago when it was a much cheaper part of LA.

'It's only recently become this enclave of luxury housing. It was never Beverly Hills before. A lot of these were generational homes that were passed down, and they can't rebuild.

'Unfortunately, for us right now, it's just not looking hopeful.'

The loss has particularly impacted the couple's youngest son.  

She said: 'The family is doing well. I think it's really hard for my three-year-old. He keeps asking to go home and I'm like, it's not there. He says, "I'll push it back up. I'm strong."

'Every animal he sees, he says, their house burned down. So it's really continuing to affect him a lot.'

Montag previously recalled the rush to leave her house when the fires started and how tough it was to decide what to try and salvage.

Speaking on Good Morning America alongside her husband, she said: 'Spencer was like, "Grab anything you wanna keep," and I was like, "How do you choose?" My brain actually stopped working because I was so overwhelmed with so many things you can't replace. So I grabbed my kids' teddy bears.

'It's a place that you love, that you live. That's a refuge from the world and to have that be gone is a really difficult concept to continue dealing with.'

Montag explained that she and Pratt were 'house poor' prior to the fire, meaning that they owned their home outright but still had to work to pay for everything else.

She said: 'We were house poor, as they call it, we have a house and everything else is a hustle, it's a grind. So, yeah, we're definitely counting every dollar that we make. We're working really hard. We take one trip a year.'