TV Star Stuns CNN Host by Naming Jesus Christ His Political Hero

Spencer Pratt just delivered one of the wildest political moments of the year — and even the CNN host interviewing him looked caught off guard.

The former reality TV star turned Los Angeles mayoral candidate shocked viewers when he declared that Jesus Christ is his biggest political role model during a sit-down interview on CNN affiliate political show The Story Is with host Elex Michaelson.

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“Yes,” Pratt answered immediately when asked who he looked up to politically. “Jesus Christ.”

The response appeared to leave Michaelson scrambling for words before Pratt tried to explain exactly what he meant.

“He was a politician. He had to go in and speak…” Pratt began before getting interrupted as the host quickly attempted to redirect the conversation toward modern political figures instead.

But Pratt doubled down on his outsider image, insisting he has no interest in becoming a traditional politician at all.

“I’m not a politician. I don’t want to be a politician. I want to be a fighter for the people,” Pratt said.

The bizarre but headline-grabbing exchange comes just days after President Donald Trump unexpectedly threw support behind Pratt’s longshot campaign to become the next mayor of Los Angeles.

“Oh, I’d like to see him do well. He’s a character,” Trump told reporters before boarding Air Force One.

Trump also joked about whether Pratt was secretly part of the MAGA movement.

“I heard he’s a Big MAGA person,” Trump said.

But Pratt has repeatedly insisted he isn’t aligned with either political side, branding himself instead as an “angry Angeleno” fed up with the collapse of Los Angeles under career politicians.

The former Hills star launched his campaign after becoming heavily involved in community activism following the devastating Pacific Palisades wildfire in January 2025 that destroyed his family home.

Now Pratt is trying to channel frustration over crime, homelessness, drug addiction and deteriorating city conditions into a populist-style mayoral run that’s surprisingly gaining traction.

Even more shocking? Pratt says the politician he relates to most is actually former President Barack Obama.

Despite registering as a Republican in 2020 and receiving praise from Trump, Pratt claims he’s focused on fixing what many residents believe has become a dirty, dangerous and dysfunctional city.

He’s made cleaning up homelessness and street crime central parts of his campaign, promising to remove addicts and mentally ill individuals from sidewalks and place them into treatment facilities while restoring Los Angeles into what he calls a “camera-ready” city again.

Pratt’s brutally blunt style and viral campaign ads have helped turn him into one of the most talked-about candidates in the race.

One recent ad mocked frustrated liberal voters who insisted “I’m not MAGA or anything” while complaining about needles in playgrounds, filthy streets and worsening conditions across Los Angeles.

At the end of the ad, the frustrated voters all quietly admitted they were supporting Pratt.

The anti-establishment strategy appears to be working.

Recent polling reportedly shows Pratt sitting in second place behind Democratic Mayor Karen Bass ahead of the June 2 primary election, stunning longtime political insiders who initially dismissed his campaign as a publicity stunt.

Now, with Trump cheering him on, CNN interviews going viral and voters increasingly angry over conditions in Los Angeles, Spencer Pratt’s once-unthinkable mayoral run is suddenly becoming something many Californians can’t ignore.