‘The Five’: Spencer Pratt hones in on homelessness...

[0:00] Spencer Pratt's bid to be L.A. mayor is getting more fuel, thanks in part to the many missteps of his opponent. [0:05] Current mayor Karen Bass and her fumbling of the city's homeless crisis is one of the things. Watch out. [0:10] Your goal was to end street homelessness in L.A. by 2026. How are you so off? [0:16] Well, basically, when I said that, it was at the beginning of my term. [0:21] I didn't anticipate some of the bureaucratic barriers that I would experience, but I am prepared to take those on now. [0:29] But you promised that it would go away 100 percent, and it's only gone down about 17.6 percent. [0:36] Right. [0:37] So why should people trust you that you're going to be able to get to the 100 percent? [0:40] Because let me just tell you, for the first time, we've had a decrease at all. [0:46] But Spencer Pratt says that the city needs a more common sense approach. [0:50] These people need medical treatment, not what Nithya and Karen Bass are talking about. [0:55] They have the right to experience drug addiction and die seven people on the street every day. [1:00] No, I'm actually the compassionate one running here. [1:04] I don't believe we have a bed issue. [1:05] I believe we have people that don't want to use the beds because they want to do drugs and be on the street. [1:11] What do you think of his candidacy, Joey? [1:14] He knows all the problems. [1:16] He may not know all the answers, but he is doing a hell of a job identifying the problems. [1:21] I mean, she sits there and she goes, I wasn't prepared for the bureaucracy. [1:24] He's like, ma'am, you ran for mayor. [1:26] What did you think it was going to be? [1:28] I mean, maybe she's always been a bully and she thought she could just bully her way there. [1:31] Or maybe she's not very good at it and she's looking for an excuse. [1:34] She also said something like, in response to him, she said something along the lines of, you know, [1:40] you go spend a week on the streets and see if your mental health doesn't change. [1:43] And it's like, well, my man did get homeless. [1:46] I mean, it probably did affect his mental health so much that now he wants to run for mayor and fix this place. [1:50] The way she's smug about it, I think it turns off voters. [1:55] But I don't know. [1:56] I mean, I think they could run Joe Biden right now and he'd probably win because L.A. is probably not going to vote for a Republican. [2:01] But I think Spencer is doing a good job. [2:02] He explained why he became a Republican here, if you can play that, please. [2:08] When I was a hated reality star, I got so many death threats. [2:12] I had so much security and police. [2:15] And what did they tell me to do? [2:16] Get a gun. [2:17] I got a gun. [2:19] My wife got a gun. [2:20] And then we needed CCWs. [2:22] The only people that supported the CCW was the Republican. [2:28] That was what I aligned with, my safety, my personal safety, my family's safety. [2:32] So, like, that's the base need, is your family's security. [2:36] Well, yeah, that's why people find him so refreshing. [2:39] You don't have to even like Pratt to despise everything that Bass represents. [2:45] She's a professional gaslighter, and it's done as a survival mechanism. [2:49] If I can lie for the next couple of months, effectively, I'll get another four years to [2:54] leech off the system. [2:55] Meanwhile, you see these ads for Pratt, which a lot of them are AI. [3:00] The AI ads are more realistic than the Dems when they try to act authentic. [3:05] Like, she comes off as AI when she talks. [3:07] You know, she was talking about the homeless, saying it's not about drugs, it's about poverty. [3:13] She portrays the homeless that goes against everything every citizen who lives in a blue [3:21] city knows and understands. [3:23] If you spend all your money on drugs, you're not going to be able to afford rent. [3:28] So you move to California where rent isn't necessary. [3:31] The weather is great. [3:32] The laws are non-existent. [3:34] Food's available. [3:34] You can get a dog, test your drugs on them. [3:37] But over time, you're no longer human. [3:40] So she was mad that he compared her to zombies. [3:43] What are they? [3:45] When you talk to anybody on the street, and I do, sometimes not by choice, you're not [3:50] talking to a human being. [3:51] You're talking to a drug. [3:53] The drug is in front of you. [3:55] They are not in control of the situation. [3:57] At least we understand that. [3:58] Pretending that they're in control of the situation is not compassion. [4:01] It's cruelty. [4:02] Her arguments are designed as obstacles to solutions. [4:07] Instead of confronting a problem, she denies it exists. [4:10] It isn't drugs. [4:11] It's poverty. [4:12] No, it isn't. [4:12] You will not find a homeless person who is healthy, sane, and poor. [4:17] You know, poor people, by definition, don't just decide to ruin their lives. [4:21] And if they find one, if Bass finds one rare example of, you know, some, like, senior citizen [4:28] woman who's healthy and sane, it's as rare as a streaking comet, and it will be gone just [4:34] as quickly. [4:35] Her argument does not come from compassion. [4:38] It's for self-preservation. [4:39] Because nothing she does is designed for the people. [4:42] It's designed for her. [4:43] And, Jessica, I was actually looking at this policy-wise, what would be the objection to [4:50] voting for Pratt? [4:51] If you wanted change, like, I mean, he is a Republican, but I'm looking at the things [4:56] that he wants to do. [4:56] It doesn't seem to me that, I can't imagine most normal Democrats would disagree. [5:00] Some of them. [5:01] Certainly the stuff related to the rebuild and cutting red tape to make sure that if you [5:07] have an enormous fire and your home is incinerated, that you can build something new and get back [5:13] in there, that's something that Kennedy talks about all the time. [5:15] You know, her neighborhood was totally devastated by this. [5:18] Around homelessness, there are a lot of people who feel similarly. [5:21] If you listen to Matt Mahan, the mayor of San Jose, it doesn't sound that different. [5:25] Right. [5:25] But it comes with somebody that actually knows how to get things done in government. [5:31] And I think that is fundamentally what people are going to have the problem with Spencer Pratt. [5:35] He doesn't have the requisite experience on any level. [5:38] I'm not just even talking about, you want to say, oh, Donald Trump, and he's not my guy, [5:42] but he ran a big organization, right? [5:45] And Spencer Pratt has been filming himself or being filmed for the entirety of his life. [5:51] He does not have experience in any of this. [5:54] He hasn't made it clear that he's going to hire the right people. [5:56] I mean, to my mind, if Rick Caruso had said, I'm going to get in this race, [6:00] he would have steamrolled the field. [6:02] The guy who arguably should have won the time before when he ran against. [6:06] But Pratt is the one getting the attention. [6:08] Well, he's, can I just say something? [6:10] And I'm hearing this from friends in LA as well. [6:12] Spencer Pratt has a very online candidacy. [6:15] Yes. [6:16] And that does not necessarily translate to votes. [6:19] His odds of winning as he, you know, gains steam, [6:22] his odds of winning in the betting markets are going down. [6:25] And people are also seeing things like videos of him palling around with Alex Jones from years ago, [6:30] saying, you know, I'm going to catch flack for this, but you're a really good guy. [6:35] And, you know, people see this Sandy Hook spin that they have, [6:38] and they're like, he doesn't believe the parents and the babies. [6:41] We're talking about a guy who said that those were child actors. [6:43] No, I know. [6:43] It's similar to, we've seen this before, Rachel, [6:47] but like people nationally will be following something, and Pratt has done that. [6:51] He has found a constituency all across America when he actually needs the votes in LA. [6:57] But his point about compassion, I thought that was a good one. [7:00] So these ads are very interesting. [7:02] One of them, he's got these guys in the backyard, and they're all saying, [7:06] well, he's kind of right about this. [7:08] I mean, and they're kind of reluctant to say they're going to vote for him. [7:10] And then at the end, they go, I think I'll vote for him. [7:13] And then they say, I mean, I'm not MAGA or anything. [7:16] I'm not MAGA or anything. [7:17] And it reminds me of something. [7:18] Back in 2016, when President Trump was running in that election, [7:23] I was a political spouse. [7:25] And so people knew where I stood, right? [7:28] My husband endorsed Donald Trump, the first one in Wisconsin. [7:31] And so people would come to me and say, I'm voting for him. [7:34] And they would whisper it to me. [7:35] They felt, this was in Wisconsin, a rural Wisconsin. [7:38] People were afraid to say they would vote for Trump [7:40] because it would seem like you're a bad person or you're a racist. [7:44] So I find that very interesting. [7:46] I think he's plain spoken. [7:47] I think that word that she used, the unhoused, that's a weird word. [7:52] Nobody talks about the unhoused. [7:54] It's a word that's meant to shame you for noticing that people are on the streets [7:59] with needles everywhere and you have to walk over feces to get to school. [8:04] I think people are sick of that. [8:05] I think he's very, he has common sense. [8:07] But real quick, I really want to know what your response is to Jessica's take [8:11] that people that are like, you know, reality TV stars don't really have that experience [8:15] to go be leaders. [8:16] Yeah. [8:16] Well, first of all, he was invested in the show that made him famous. [8:21] So he is a businessman in production and reality TV. [8:25] He's obviously a successful guy. [8:27] Apparently, he can rent a hotel in Bel Air and hang out there. [8:32] I can't do that for a week. [8:33] I like Bel Air. [8:34] Yeah. [8:35] So I think he's, I think people overestimate what it takes to run. [8:39] If you have common sense, you, and you are humble enough to reach out to people who can [8:43] help you to get the job done, you can do it. [8:46] He hasn't said that though. [8:48] Where is her training in the summer? [8:50] When she was a kid, she was, when she was in college, she went to Cuba and was a youth [8:55] brigade person, you know, back then she has communist sort of vibes about her. [9:01] That's what her background is. [9:02] And she's clearly doing a bad job. [9:04] Why not take a chance on, just like people said, let's take a chance on Trump. [9:07] Because it could always go worse as it did with Trump.