Political commentator Bill O’Reilly said Monday that the results of the Los Angeles mayoral primary are “suspicious” after city councilmember Nithya Raman (D) knocked out former reality star Spencer Pratt (R) from the race and advanced to a November runoff against incumbent Mayor Karen Bass (D).

In an interview with NewsNation’s “On Balance,” O’Reilly questioned a late uptick in support for Raman, who edged out Pratt by roughly 3 percentage points, according to Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ).

“Why was the surge for this woman? Why wasn’t it for Karen Bass, the other mayoral candidate? Why her? Because they wanted to knock Pratt out,” he said.

O’Reilly noted that he had “no evidence to back up that there was fraud in this election,” but still deemed the results “suspicious.”

“If I were a resident of California, I’d move out tomorrow if I could.”

Republicans have voiced concerns without evidence about alleged foul play in the California election last week, where the weekend count of mail-in votes knocked Pratt to third place and had Tom Steyer (D) gaining ground on Trump-backed Steve Hilton (R) in the gubernatorial race — though Hilton ultimately advanced to the general election.

President Trump over the weekend called the California election “rigged” and stormed out of an interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker after she pressed him on the allegations.

“Not possible for Spencer Pratt to have lost the L.A. runoffs after the big lead he had,” the president wrote on Truth Social on Monday. “3rd World Nation.”

Vice President Vance said the results of the mayoral primary seemed “pretty shady” to him.

“You would expect these mail-in ballots to kind of meet that same basic pattern where, you know, number one would get the most votes, number two would get the second most votes, and so on,” he said in an interview.

“The way that they’re coming in just so happens to work out such that the Republican is getting kicked out of the final two, so it’s a Democrat versus Democrat runoff, that seems pretty shady to me.”

A federal prosecutor for the Central District of California, Bill Essayli, announced that his office had “multiple election fraud investigations underway” amid Trump’s repeated accusations against Democrats “cheating” in the primary elections.

Essayli debunked one claim circulating social media that alleged Pratt obtained zero votes, calling it “false” after reviewing official county records.

The Hill has reached out to the White House for comment and for any evidence behind the claims.

In California’s primary system, all candidates appear on the same ballot regardless of party affiliation. If a candidate receives the majority of the vote, they win the election outright.

But if no candidate receives the majority vote, the top two vote-getters advance to a runoff in November. Bass was more than 50,000 votes ahead of both candidates, receiving 34.32 percent of the vote, Raman receiving 28.55 percent and Pratt receiving 25.83 percent as of Monday night.

Pratt on Monday urged voters not to give up hope, saying there are still “hundreds of thousands of votes” to count.

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