Spencer Pratt Just Told CNN the One Reason He Became a Republican and and Democrats Are Not Going to Like It
Spencer Pratt was the most hated man on television – and someone wanted him dead for it.
CNN sat him down this week and asked him why he became a Republican.
What he said next is the one answer Democrats in Los Angeles cannot afford to have on tape.
Spencer Pratt Got a Concealed Carry Permit and Only One Party Helped Him
Pratt's answer was blunt.
When he was a hated reality star, the death threats came in volume.
His security told him to get a gun.
He did.
His wife Heidi got one too.
Then they needed concealed carry permits to protect themselves outside the home.
"The only people that supported a CCW was the Republican," Pratt told CNN anchor Elex Michaelson. "That was what I aligned with – my safety, my personal safety and my family's safety."
That is the whole story.
No ideology.
No think tanks.
No cable news pundit telling him what to believe.
A man under threat asked which party would let him legally defend his family – and only one said yes.
The Democrats said no.
They always say no.
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Why the LA Mayor Race Just Became a Second Amendment Story
Pratt was not radicalized by talk radio.
He was radicalized by living in the city Democrats have run for decades.
His home burned down in the 2025 Palisades fire while Karen Bass was out of the country.
He announced his candidacy for mayor in January 2026, and the city's political machine immediately labeled him a fascist.
Councilmember Nithya Raman called him a MAGA Republican.
The death threats came back.
His security team contacted the LAPD and reevaluated his living arrangements mid-campaign.
The man is living proof that Democrats cannot keep people safe – and the party that said yes to his CCW is now the one he is running under.
The latest Emerson College poll has Pratt at 22% – second place, 8 points behind Bass, with the June 2 primary 12 days away.
An informal NBC4-LA post-debate poll showed 89% of viewers thought Pratt won the debate.
Bass is stuck between 20 and 30 percent despite near-universal name recognition as the sitting mayor.
The U.S. Concealed Carry Association's Katie Pointer Baney said it plainly to Fox News: "We've seen less and less Democrats, specifically at the federal level, willing to stand up for Second Amendment rights. So I think that's now being reflected in the electorate."
It is being reflected in ways Democrats did not expect.
A reality TV villain from The Hills just explained the Second Amendment to a CNN audience better than any Republican senator has managed in years.
He did not use talking points.
He used his own story.
That is the kind of conversion Democrats have no answer for – because the answer requires them to admit the Second Amendment exists for exactly the reason the Founders said it does.
Personal safety is not a Republican luxury.
It is an American right.
And the party that keeps voting to take it away just lost another one.
Sources:
- "Spencer Pratt Says he Turned Into a Gun-Slinging Republican as a Hated Reality Star," TMZ, May 21, 2026.
- "Bass holds lead in LA mayoral race as Pratt climbs to 2nd, new poll shows," Fox 11 Los Angeles, May 2026.
- "Poll: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass Falls Flat with Voters as Spencer Pratt Improves," Breitbart, May 11, 2026.
- "Spencer Pratt explains why he's a Republican," CNN Politics, May 21, 2026.
- "Biden-Harris policies may be behind surge in Republican women owning guns, concealed carry advocate says," Fox News Digital.
