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HELL FREEZES OVER: CBS News ‘Fact Checks’ Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass From Debate, Says Spencer Pratt Was Right

Something has shifted in the race for mayor of Los Angeles after Spender Pratt’s amazing performance in the debate earlier this week.

Even CBS News has done a ‘fact check’ on incumbent Democrat candidate Karen Bass, something that is usually reserved for Republican candidates. It’s extremely rare for the media to call out a Democrat candidate in this way.

The fact check had mostly to do with claims made about the wildfires, which are clearly going to play a much larger role in this race than Democrats were hoping.

John Nolte writes at Breitbart News:

Here is a partially edited transcript from the debate that’s relevant to the first CBS News fact check about the mayor’s epic mishandling of the 2025 Palisades Fire that destroyed nearly 7,000 structures and killed 12 people:

SPENCER PRATT: A lot of people talk about climate change and hurricane-force winds. The winds in the Pacific Palisades never reached higher than 40 mph. For those first six hours, they didn’t go above 27 miles per hour.

The whole point of this exchange is that Bass is running around blaming the fire on Climate Change.

KAREN BASS: He talked about the winds — that is just completely inaccurate. If that were accurate, then the planes would have been able to fly. And so if the winds reached close to 100 miles an hour and the planes were unable to fly.

PRATT: Yes, she mentioned me. So this is — she’s an incredible liar. Everyone on their phones, Google it. 40 weather stations in the Pacific Palisades. It never went above 40 miles per hour. She is referencing the Altadena fire.

BIASED LEFTIST MODERATOR: I have to interrupt you. No name-calling, please.

PRATT: Yeah, but no name calling? She just lied though… No more lying. We need the truth.

Here’s the CBS News fact check:

Weather modeling reviewed for my reporting shows winds in the Palisades during those first several hours of the fire were, in fact under 40 miles per hour. Planes could and did fly. Stronger winds intensified later in the evening. And that distinction matters because the earliest hours of a wildfire are often the most critical for containment.

Here’s the video:

Pratt should win this election and if the voters of Los Angeles have any common sense, he will.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/hell-freezes-cbs-news-fact-checks-los-angeles/

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Could Courts Overturn California's Congressional Map Next? This Senator Thinks So.

With Virginia’s new congressional declared unconstitutional, Democrats are well on the back foot in the fight to gain seats ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. Things could go from bad to worse if Senator Eric Schmitt’s play to take out California’s radical map moves forward.

Schmitt argues that’s independent commission was subverted by Governor Gavin Newsom and state Democrats, who employed their own favored mapmaker. That mapmaker drew California’s map to protect and expand a racial gerrymander, a practice which was recently struck down by a Supreme Court decision to reign in the VRA.

Schmitt has even provided clear evidence to prove that the new map is racially based, with the mapmaker himself gloating on social media about the “increase[d] Latino voting power” that would produce “one more Latino influence district.”

If California were to lose their new map, the totality of Democrat redistricting efforts would result in only a single pick up. Republicans have managed to add an astounding 17 safe districts through their rapid redraws following Virginia’s decision to produce the now-unconstitutional map.

What seemed like a bleak prospect at the GOP retaining the House just weeks ago has now turned into a nightmare scenario for Democrats.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/josephchalfant/2026/05/08/could-courts-overturn-californias-congressional-map-next-this-senator-thinks-so-n2675773

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Tennessee’s New “Racist” Map Will Likely Replace a White Male Democrat With a Black Republican Woman

Tennessee Democrats spent Thursday screaming “Jim Crow” from the gallery of the state capitol, locking arms on the House floor, and accusing Republican mapmakers of “white supremacy.” The reason? A new congressional map signed into law by Gov. Bill Lee redraws the state’s only Democrat-held district — the so-called “Black-majority” 9th, anchored in Memphis — in a way that virtually guarantees the seat flips to a Republican in November.

And here is the part the cable news anchors keep mumbling past. The white guy losing the seat is named Steve Cohen. The Republican most likely to win it is a Black woman named Charlotte Bergmann.

So a “racist gerrymander” designed to “silence Black voters” is, in practice, on the verge of replacing an aging white Democrat with a Black female conservative who grew up in Memphis, pulled herself out of homelessness, and openly credits her Christian faith as the foundation of her politics. If that is what white supremacy looks like in 2026, the white supremacists need a new playbook.
The “Black-Majority” District That Keeps Electing a White Democrat

Tennessee’s 9th Congressional District has been drawn as a Black-majority district since the early 1980s. It is the only majority-minority district in the state. And since 2007, it has been represented by Steve Cohen, who is, by every available measure, a 76-year-old white man.

Cohen is Tennessee’s first Jewish congressman. He is also the first white Democrat to represent a significant portion of Memphis in roughly four decades. He has fended off serious primary challenges from Black Memphis political figures — including former Mayor Willie Herenton in 2010 and, currently, state Rep. Justin Pearson — and has won general elections by margins north of 70 percent.

For nearly 20 years, then, the constitutional argument deployed by Democrats this week — that Black voters in Memphis must have a district designed to preserve their political power — has produced exactly one outcome at the federal level. They keep sending Steve Cohen to Washington. The district was engineered for “Black representation” and reliably elects a white Democrat. Nobody on MSNBC seems particularly bothered.

Enter Charlotte Bergmann

Bergmann is not a parachute candidate. She has run for the 9th District multiple times, has served on the Tennessee Republican Party State Executive Committee, and was already on the 2026 Republican primary ballot before the map was redrawn. What changes is the partisan tilt of her district. The old 9th was rated D+23 by the Cook Political Report and backed Kamala Harris by 43 points in 2024. Under the new lines, according to Inside Elections, the same geography would have voted for Donald Trump by 21 points.

Her biography would, in any other context, be the centerpiece of a glossy magazine feature. She was born in Memphis. She experienced homelessness. She refused to lean on government subsidies, built a small business, and now signs the paychecks for her employees. She lost a grandson to gang violence. She has spent years walking the same precincts she now hopes to represent in Congress.

On her campaign website, she places the matter plainly. “I believe we Americans deserve secure and better jobs, stronger security and solid education, that will allow us to live rewarding lives,” she writes. “And those lives can and must be lived in peaceful communities. Criminals can no longer be allowed to run the city!”

This is the candidate the legacy press is implying it would be a tragedy to elect.

The Quiet Part, Said on Camera

The contradiction was so obvious this week that even cable news could not paper over it. During an on-air exchange, journalist Lydia Moynihan calmly noted the irony to commentator Tezlyn Figaro.


“It’s a little ironic that the woman now who is likely going to win the 9th District in Tennessee is a Black Republican woman as a result of this redistricting effort. It’s likely going to be a Black Republican woman who beats that old, White man. But that’s racist?”

Figaro’s response, delivered without hesitation:

“Yeah, it is. It actually is.”

 

Read that again. A Black woman replacing a white man in Congress is, according to the establishment commentariat, an act of racism. The only way that statement parses is if you accept the premise the speaker is too polite to articulate. Republicans, in their framework, do not really count as Black. A Black conservative is treated as a category error, a defection, a betrayal of the demographic she belongs to. Her skin color is acknowledged only when it can be wielded against her own party.

That is not anti-racism. That is a racial loyalty test administered by people who claim to oppose racial loyalty tests.

Representation as Costume

What this episode exposes — perhaps more cleanly than any congressional fight in years — is that the entire “majority-minority district” architecture was never really about race. It was about partisanship dressed up in the moral vocabulary of civil rights.

When the courts and Congress designed these districts decades ago, the assumption baked into the project was that Black voters would always vote one way, and that protecting Black political power meant guaranteeing Democratic seats. The framework worked beautifully when the two were synonymous. It begins to break the moment a Black candidate runs as a Republican, or a white Democrat occupies the “Black” seat, or — as in Memphis right now — both happen at once.

Justin Pearson, the Black Democratic state representative who was challenging Cohen in the primary, told the legislature this week that Republicans were “eviscerating the only Black-majority congressional district in our state because we are majority Black.” It is a stirring line. It also requires the listener to ignore that the man currently holding the seat is white, and the woman most likely to replace him is not.
What the Map Actually Does

None of this is to say the new map is ideologically neutral. Republicans were transparent about their goal. State Sen. John Stevens, who sponsored the legislation, told colleagues, “This bill represents Tennessee’s attempt to maximize our partisan advantage.” Tennessee voted for Trump by roughly 25 points in 2024. Under the previous map, eight of nine House seats reflected that reality. Under the new map, all nine likely will.

Democrats are perfectly entitled to call that aggressive. They might even have an argument that mid-decade redistricting is bad practice generally. What they are not entitled to do is borrow the moral authority of the civil rights movement to defend a white incumbent against a Black challenger — and expect serious people to keep nodding along.
The Verse the Capitol Protesters Skipped

“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” Isaiah’s warning fits the moment with uncomfortable precision. A political movement that once marched for the right of every Black American to vote his or her conscience now insists that conscience produce only one acceptable answer at the ballot box.

Charlotte Bergmann may or may not win in November. The Tennessee NAACP’s lawsuit may slow the map down. Steve Cohen has filed his own challenge and shows no sign of going quietly. But the spectacle of the past several days has clarified something the political class has spent years obscuring. When the choice is between a white liberal and a Black conservative, the people who claim to fight racism every day know exactly which one they want to win — and it is not the one who looks like the constituency they say they are protecting.

That tells you everything you need to know about whose interests this fight has actually been serving.

https://patriot.tv/tennessees-new-racist-map-will-likely-replace-a-white-male-democrat-with-a-black-republican-woman/