January 1, RIGGED: Socialist Surges Past Republican After Mystery Ballot Dumps Days After Polls Close

Wyatt’s Take

• A radical Los Angeles socialist who was losing by double digits on Election Day is suddenly winning after suspicious late-night ballot drops showed up nearly a week later
• The same corrupt California election machine that’s been stealing races for years is at it again, conveniently ‘finding’ just enough votes to flip results
• Republicans won on Election Day, but Democrats are manufacturing victories in the dead of night when nobody’s watching

The supposedly secure American election system is once again proving to be anything but secure. Days after Election Day ended with a clear Republican lead, mysterious ballot dumps are flipping the Los Angeles mayoral race toward a socialist candidate who was trailing badly when actual voters cast their ballots.

Socialist Democrat Nithya Raman, a Los Angeles city councilwoman, was down by ten points to Republican Spencer Pratt when polls closed. That was nearly a week ago.

Raman needed to beat Pratt by 8.7 points in the remaining vote today. Instead, she won this drop by 22.5 points, and it was a large batch.

That puts Nithya Raman on track to join Karen Bass in a November runoff between two Democrats. https://t.co/9YF7JCEjIW

— Zachary Donnini (@ZacharyDonnini) June 7, 2026

But now, after multiple late-breaking ballot dumps appeared out of nowhere, Raman is suddenly surging. The Indian-born councilwoman who only entered the race in February is now sitting in third place and climbing — all thanks to ballots that somehow materialized days after everyone else voted.

This is the same playbook we’ve seen over and over in California and other Democrat-controlled states. Republicans lead on Election Day when real people show up to vote in person. Then, mysteriously, in the days and weeks that follow, truckloads of mail-in ballots arrive just in time to flip the results.

It’s almost like they know exactly how many votes they need to manufacture.

Raman represents everything wrong with modern Los Angeles politics. She’s a far-left ideologue who wants to defund the police, expand homeless encampments, and raise taxes on working families. Her policy positions read like a socialist wish list — more government control, more spending, less freedom.

But Los Angeles voters didn’t choose her on Election Day. They chose the Republican candidate by a comfortable margin.

What changed? Not the voters’ minds. What changed was the sudden appearance of thousands of conveniently timed ballots that all seem to break heavily in one direction.

This is exactly why so many Americans have lost faith in the integrity of our elections. When results can be overturned days or weeks after Election Day by mysterious ballot drops that nobody can adequately explain or verify, the entire system becomes a joke.

Mail-in voting was supposed to be reserved for people who genuinely couldn’t make it to the polls — military members overseas, the elderly, the disabled. Now it’s become a tool for partisan operatives to game the system and manufacture the outcomes they want.

California has turned elections into a month-long free-for-all where ballots can show up at any time, from anywhere, with minimal verification. It’s no coincidence that Republicans routinely lead on Election Day only to lose weeks later when all the “late” votes are counted.

The American people deserve better than this banana republic nonsense. Elections should be decided by voters on Election Day, not by whoever can dump the most mystery ballots into the system in the weeks that follow.

If Raman ends up winning this race, it won’t be because Los Angeles voters chose her. It’ll be because the broken California election system allowed her allies to keep counting until they got the result they wanted.

That’s not democracy. That’s theft.

Wyatt Matters

When hardworking Americans go to bed on Election Night thinking their candidate won, only to wake up days later finding out mysterious ballots flipped the race, something is fundamentally broken. This isn’t about Democrat versus Republican anymore — it’s about whether we even have real elections or just elaborate theatrical productions where the outcome is decided by whoever controls the ballot-counting operation. Middle America knows you can’t trust a system where votes keep appearing until the right person wins.