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#2526 - JD Vance

Explore episode Jul 15, 2026
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California's Collapse and the Mail-In Ballot Mystery

#2526 - JD Vance · Jul 15, 2026 Government

In the LA mayoral primary, Karen Bass led, Spencer Pratt was second, and Nithya Raman was a distant third — until the mail-in ballots came in and Raman leaped to second. Vance calls it 'super sus' and asks: what theory of the electorate explains why mail-in ballots were so disproportionately pro-Raman? There was also direct evidence of homeless people being given cigarettes and cash to use addresses for ballots.

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