Fox Business panel suggests Democratic voters in LA are “as stupid as New York voters who voted in Mamdani”
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From the June 1, 2026, edition of Fox Business' Mornings with Maria Bartiromo
CHERYL CASONE (ANCHOR): Tomorrow, voters in California are going to cast their ballots in the primary election where they will decide the races for Los Angeles mayor, and there's going to be some other things on the ballot, Liz Peek, but your reaction to what's happening right now in the mayor's race in LA.
LIZ PEEK (FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR): Well, I think Spencer Pratt has a very good chance of getting out of tomorrow's primary, as the betting markets are indicating, because support is understated for him in the polls just like it always has been for President Trump. I think he has hit a real nerve talking about the fires, talking about Karen Bass' unbelievably inept response to the fires that wiped out thousands of homes.
By the way, no one is rebuilding yet. And I think that's the greatest indictment here. Not only have they not fixed the problems that led to the fire, they aren't even able to rebuild. Look, Los Angeles is a mess. The voters know it. If they're ready for a change, and all the polling suggests that they want a change, Spencer Pratt is a new voice and a new way forward. I hope he wins.
CASONE: You know, and also too, the mom vote in Los Angeles is big. The quality of life, they want to be able to walk their dog and take their child out for a walk without worrying about needles and naked homeless people. He says that and he makes such strong points about that.
MICHAEL LEE (FOUNDER, MICHAEL LEE STRATEGY): The how far, how fast Los Angeles has come over the last decade is mind-blowing. If it didn't actually happen and I told you about it, you wouldn't believe me. Right? And so when he talks about like ,hey, I just want to walk on the street without seeing a homeless person or, they're not homeless people as he points out. These are zombie meth heads, OK? Who aren't being forced to do anything. They don't enforce the basic laws. But you've got to watch these people either masturbating or defecating on the sidewalk in front of you with small children.
Enough is enough. And so for Karen Bass, like I don't even know how she became mayor. You know, she's an awful campaigner. And then you've got this other communist, Nithya, she's out there too. So like, you got to ask yourself how stupid are the people of Los Angeles? The results that you're living in are a direct result of the decisions you make at the ballot box. And so, if these people aren't ready to get up and vote for a change, they're just going to get more of the same.
PEEK: Maybe as stupid as New York voters who voted in Mamdani.