Pratt's Lead Over Raman Evaporates, Karmelo Anthony Defense Begins, Golden Tempo Wins: AM Update 6/8

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Good morning, everyone. I'm Emily Drushinsky, host of After Party and The Megyn Kelly Wrap-Up Show on SiriusXM Channel 111 It's Monday, June 8th, 2026, and this is your AM Update.
Spencer Pratt's lead over City Councilwoman, Nithya Raman, completely vanishing in the Los Angeles mayor race over the weekend, as the fight for the final spot in November's runoff intensifies.

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A rare Saturday court session in Texas, with jurors hearing graphic testimony in the Karmelo Anthony murder trial as prosecutors rest their case.
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**Emily Drushinsky** (2:34)
Former reality star Spencer Pratt's once promising lead over Los Angeles councilwoman Nithya Raman to make the runoff in November evaporating over the weekend. As California's notoriously slow vote count drags on with one blue wave of ballot drops after another.
Last Tuesday, on the actual election day, incumbent mayor Karen Bass leading the night, but failing to clinch the more than 50% needed to avoid a runoff. Pratt ending election night in what looked like a clear second place with 30.4% of the vote. Pratt on Tuesday sounding confident about the next five months.

**Spencer Pratt** (3:08)
I was gonna be happy if I wasn't moving forward because I would have known that God didn't want me to be the mayor. But now I feel very confident that I'm gonna continue to work hard, learn everything I need to learn, build my teams, show all the experience that I'm gonna surround myself with because that's a concern people have. Oh, he has no experience. I'm gonna build that experience around. And we have five months to put the best team the city could ever dream of around me.

**Emily Drushinsky** (3:34)
Raman ending election night with 22.4% of the vote, addressing supporters in remarks that sounded like a candidate bracing for the end.

**Nithya Raman** (3:42)
Many thousands of votes will be counted in the days ahead. And we may not get an answer we like. But regardless of what happens next, nobody, nobody can take away what all of us have built together.

**Emily Drushinsky** (3:57)
But by this weekend, the race looking very different, as there were still hundreds of thousands of ballots still outstanding. In California, mail-in ballots postmarked by election day can still be counted if they arrive up to a week later, meaning the numbers can keep shifting for days after voters leave the polls. In the New York Times reporting, Raman began making up ground in the first major post-election updates with the councilwoman outperforming Pratt among newly counted ballots on Wednesday and Thursday. Throughout the weekend, the gap continuing to narrow, Raman winning the Saturday ballot drop with Raman not only beating Pratt but even outpacing Bass, taking 40 percent of the newly counted Los Angeles City vote to Bass's 33 percent and Pratt's 18 percent. As of yesterday afternoon, Pratt's lead dwindling to just about 1.27.32 percent to Raman's 26.21.