On Tuesday, Paul Jacob wrote of the Los Angeles mayoral race, focusing on the top three candidates, incumbent Mayor Karen Bass, Councilwoman Nithya Raman, and the challenger from outside the city machine, Spencer Pratt.
So why is the Babylon Bee making this joke?
While most cities and states seem to be able to figure out who won and who lost by the end of the day of the election, Los Angeles can take days, weeks, or maybe even months to allow for all the mail-in ballots to trickle in, resulting in a spectacular come-from-behind victory for Biden.
Yes, the votes are still coming in, showing Mayor Bass ahead, and Spencer Pratt in second place, as in this from ABC7 Eyewitness News:
But from the same source, we see this headline: “CA primary election results: Bass maintains lead as Raman closes gap in LA mayor’s race with Pratt.” The full graph:
But it is Saturday, and votes in California’s primary elections (with all U.S. House seats and the governor position and more in the balance) are still being counted.
Regardless of who wins, anyone expecting competence in running elections has lost.
Already, rumors of election tampering in the L.A. race are rife on the Internet.
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Even if Pratt were to get the most votes in the primary, he would still lose in the run-off as nearly all of those who voted for Bass and for Raman combined to support the surviving Democrat.
A loss by Pratt would, in any case, accelerate the departure of non-leftists from Los Angeles. But if Pratt seems to have participation in the run-off stolen from him, that emigration will be still greater.
Some might think that the Democrats thus have more reason not to rig the primary than to rig it. But the Democrats of California (as in other jurisdictions) are pursuing the Curley Effect — driving-out voters who oppose them, even at a great cost of economic development. A sense outside the left that the game is rigged itself favors the Democrats.