{"id":24563,"date":"2026-05-22T05:22:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T05:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/spencer-pratt-reveals-his-political-role-model\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T05:22:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T05:22:49","slug":"spencer-pratt-reveals-his-political-role-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/spencer-pratt-reveals-his-political-role-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Spencer Pratt Reveals His Political Role Model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative\" data-narration-container=\"true\">\n<p>Los Angeles Republican mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt revealed that his political role model is \u201cJesus Christ\u201d \u2014 and that the modern politician with whom he most identified was former President Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>Pratt, during an interview with CNN\u2019s Elex Michaelson, discussed everything from why he decided to run for mayor in the first place and what led him to become a Republican to his plan to manage the homelessness crisis \u2014 and he got candid about political comparisons and role models.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"drbL5st28YY\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spencer Pratt\u2019s political role model? Jesus Christ\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/drbL5st28YY?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho is your political role model?\u201d Michaelson asked the question directly.<\/p>\n<p>Without a second\u2019s hesitation, Pratt replied, \u201cJesus Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOkay, I mean \u2014\u201d Michaelson tried to reframe the question.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was a politician, you know, he had to go in and \u2014\u201d Pratt defended his response.<\/p>\n<p>Michaelson tried a different tack: \u201cAre there any modern politicians that you\u2019re especially studying or drawn to that \u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, no, no,\u201d Pratt was insistent. \u201cI am not a politician. I don\u2019t want to be a politician. I want to be a fighter for the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut you\u2019ve mentioned, though, that \u2014\u201d Michaelson pressed again, and Pratt interrupted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObama, yeah,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m most similar to Obama. And I know \u2018The View\u2019 ladies said that I don\u2019t have a law degree, so I\u2019m gonna work on that online in the next \u2014 before November \u2014 I probably can get one, and do the Baby Bar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pratt argued that he was most similar to Obama because he viewed the former president as first and foremost a community advocate \u2014 and that was also how he thought of himself.<\/p>\n<p>The former MTV reality star \u2014 in the mayoral race because of the fallout from the deadly Palisades fire that took his home \u2014 also explained during that same interview how he had come to be a Republican in a town teeming with young liberals.<\/p>\n<p>It was all about his own personal safety, he said, explaining that when he\u2019d been on MTV\u2019s \u201cThe Hills,\u201d his personal security team had advised him to get a firearm for his own protection. He and his wife, Heidi Montag, had done so and had learned in the process that Republicans were the ones supporting their right to do that.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/spencer-pratt-reveals-his-political-role-model\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Republican mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt revealed that his political role model is \u201cJesus Christ\u201d \u2014 and that the modern politician with whom he most identified was former President Barack Obama. Pratt, during an interview with CNN\u2019s Elex Michaelson, discussed everything from why he decided to run for mayor in the first place and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-current-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}