Karen Bass is the unpopular Democratic mayor of Los Angeles, where a recent poll found her favorability rating languishing at just 31%. She is currently fighting to keep her job for another term, battling a city council member from the far Left while being challenged from the center by former reality television star Spencer Pratt. Before their debate last week, in which Pratt leveled intense criticisms of the city’s leadership and governance, Bass appeared on a progressive platform and dismissed his candidacy in a startlingly tone-deaf manner.

“Honestly, before this, I had never heard of Spencer Pratt,” Bass told MeidasTouch. “The thing I am concerned [about] and feel about him is that I feel like he’s exploiting the grief of people in the Palisades, and I just think that’s just reprehensible.” She went on to suggest Pratt was pursuing this campaign to revive his celebrity status.