Meghan McCain Bets Spencer Pratt Will Be L.A.'s Next Mayor

Spencer Pratt is running for mayor of Los Angeles, and somehow that sentence is not the wildest part of this story. Meghan McCain says he is going to win. Yes, really.

McCain is calling the upset

On April 29, Meghan McCain hopped on X to predict a shocker in the L.A. mayoral race after seeing Spencer Pratt's newest campaign ad.

'I am telling you this guy is going to win.'

The ad that lit the fuse

Pratt's spot is not subtle. He shows up outside Mayor Karen Bass's home, then swings by City Councilwoman Nithya Raman's place and points out the price tag on Raman's house at around $3 million. The pitch is basically: they do not have to deal with the problems they have created.

Then the ad hard-cuts to Pratt standing outside the trailer where he and Heidi Montag lived after the 2025 California wildfires, which he says destroyed their homes. He frames his run as personal and pretty angry, saying failed leadership left families like his in the ashes and that he is in this for his sons and anyone in L.A. who is tired of corrupt politics. For context, he and Montag share two kids: Gunner Stone Pratt, 8, and Ryker Rock Pratt, 3.

Requests for comment have been sent to the Bass and Raman campaigns.

How we got here

Pratt announced his bid in January, timing it to the anniversary of the Palisades Fire — the one that killed 12 people and burned more than 6,800 homes near Pacific Palisades, California. He launched the campaign at a public demonstration bluntly titled 'They Let Us Burn,' and he did not hold back: he argued the L.A. system is not just struggling but fundamentally broken, engineered to protect the people at the top while everyone else chokes on smoke. In his words, business as usual in this city is a death sentence, and he is done waiting for someone else to fix it.

Where the wind is blowing (for now)

Pratt has climbed in recent polling to the point where he is being treated as a legit contender. And the reaction has been exactly what you would expect when a reality TV villain starts polling well in a major-city race: loud, split, and a little surreal.

• Meghan McCain, 41, is all in, publicly predicting a Pratt upset on April 29.
• Joe Rogan has thrown support behind him.
• Kristin Cavallari, 39, talked up the campaign on the April 21 episode of her 'Let’s Be Honest' podcast, calling the move smart and venting that politics across the board is rotten.
• Podcaster Nick Viall has also endorsed him.
• Stephanie Pratt, 40 — yes, Spencer's sister and his former 'The Hills' costar — unloaded on February 14, urging L.A. not to elect another unqualified, inexperienced mayor. She accused him of chasing fame and book sales, argued the Palisades should worry about its own leadership before trying to run a city of 4 million, and said she would be surprised if a Republican could flip L.A.'s Democrats.
• She followed up by saying the city needs someone with real experience and took a shot at Spencer's past by claiming he was involved with a cult.
• Yvette Nicole Brown weighed in on April 24 on Threads, pointing to Pratt's fundraising and saying it proves the country did not learn anything from the last time a reality star jumped into politics — a not-so-subtle Trump comparison.

The read

This is one of those L.A. moments where entertainment and politics blur into the same frame. Pratt is using the tools he knows — provocation, viral ads, a very personal narrative — and it is clearly landing with some voters. Whether that translates into votes over time is an entirely different game, but for now, he is not just a stunt on a ballot.