Spencer Pratt’s run for Los Angeles mayor has been endorsed by controversial podcaster Joe Rogan.
The born-and-raised Los Angelino, 42, announced his candidacy for mayor in January. Despite being a registered Republican, the reality star is running as an independent, hoping to unseat Democratic incumbent Karen Bass, who is up for reelection in November.
Appearing on a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, Pratt spoke about his campaign and his decision to run for office, emphasizing the rising numbers of the unhoused population and the “underfunded and understaffed” LA fire department.
In response, the host — who endorsed Donald Trump in 2024 — declared his support for Pratt.
“Listen, man, I’m voting for you,” Rogan, 58, told The Hills star. The podcaster, who relocated from LA to Texas in 2020, clarified: “[Well] I can’t vote for you, but I’m rooting for you. I mean, if I lived in Los Angeles, no question whatsoever, I would vote for you.”
Following the episode’s Wednesday release, Pratt celebrated his interview in a Facebook post. “An honor being on with the GOAT, @joerogan,” he wrote, alongside a picture of him and Rogan in the studio. “My goal is to make LA so awesome, we can win him back from Texas.”
Pratt — who rose to fame in the early aughts on MTV’s reality show The Hills alongside his wife, Heidi Montag — has been openly critical of the city’s current leadership, blaming Bass for her response to the 2025 LA wildfires that destroyed thousands of homes, including his own and his parents’.
He first announced his campaign in January at a “They Let Us Burn” rally in the Palisades Village.
“Business as usual is a death sentence for Los Angeles, and I’m done waiting for someone to take real action. That’s why I am running for mayor,” he said.
“And let me be clear, this just isn’t a campaign, this is a mission, and we are going to expose the system. We are going into every dark corner of LA politics and disinfecting this city with our light. And when we are done, LA is going to be camera-ready again.”
After announcing his candidacy, Pratt explained during an appearance on The View that he is running as an independent because “this is not a partisan race.”
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Acknowledging that he is “not a political person,” Pratt insisted: “But when they burn your house down, and you start looking at the people that I paid my taxes to, and they fail at such a level, we need to be honest and have the truth and transparency.
“And if you keep lying on these things, nothing’s going to change. So everything I believe in is common sense. I’m not running on anything that my neighbors don’t agree with — and when I say neighbors, I mean all of Los Angeles.”
