Vice President JD Vance discussed the Los Angeles mayoral race during an appearance this week on "The Joe Rogan Experience," where he and host Joe Rogan questioned the outcome of the primary election, particularly the role of mail-in ballots and allegations involving voter outreach to homeless individuals, as reported by The Gateway Pundit.

During the conversation, Rogan argued that the election results raised concerns because of changes in the standings after mail-in ballots were counted.

“And here’s why it’s super sus. Not just super sus that Spencer Pratt, who was in second place, got overtaken by Nithya Raman in the mail-in ballots, but that the mail-in ballots also PASSED a TAX HIKE!” Rogan said.

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He also questioned the tax measure approved during the election.

“The people voted to pay more taxes in a state where you have the highest taxes.”

“They’re like WE DON’T pay ENOUGH!”

The remarks prompted laughter from Vance before Rogan continued.

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“That is insane! And then when you have direct evidence that they were recruiting homeless people and they were getting homeless people and giving them cigarettes and cash…to use their address in mail-in ballots.”

Rogan's comments reflected his skepticism about the primary election results and the impact of mail-in voting.

During the exchange, he argued that the shift in the race after absentee ballots were tabulated warranted additional scrutiny.

Vance responded by saying he found the tax increase difficult to reconcile with California's existing tax burden.

“I wouldn’t be the Californian, Joe, who wakes up in the morning and says, you know what, I’m gonna go and vote for higher taxes because I don’t pay enough taxes…” Vance said.

The vice president then discussed the sequence of the mayoral primary results as he understood them.

“The craziest thing about it too…so after the initial ballots all came in, it was Karen Bass was number one, Spencer Pratt was right behind her, and then number three…Nithya Raman,” Vance said.

According to Vance, he believed the order of candidates would ordinarily be expected to remain relatively consistent as additional ballots were counted.

“So, you would expect the mail-in ballots to be more or less like the original ballots in terms of one, two, and three,” he said.

Vance emphasized that he was not asserting Spencer Pratt would necessarily have prevailed among mail-in voters, but questioned the magnitude of the change in support.

“I’m not saying that Spencer Pratt’s going to win the mail-in ballots, but it just so happened that the third-place person, in relative terms, did A LOT better than the first and second-place person.”

He concluded by arguing that the outcome altered the makeup of the general election ballot.

“Such that the Republican was actually kicked out of the race so that there’s not actually a real election in California.”

The discussion focused largely on the Los Angeles mayoral primary, mail-in voting, and the vote totals reported after absentee ballots were processed.

Rogan questioned both the election outcome and the approval of a tax increase, while also referencing allegations involving homeless individuals and mail-in ballots.

Vance centered his remarks on the vote-counting process, arguing that the movement of candidates after mail-in ballots were added differed from what he expected based on the initial results.

He maintained that the final outcome removed the Republican candidate from the general election.

The conversation formed part of a broader discussion on election administration and voting procedures during Vance's appearance on Rogan's podcast.

Throughout the exchange, both men expressed skepticism about the reported results of the Los Angeles mayoral primary and discussed the effect they believed mail-in ballots had on the final standings.

Their comments reflected their personal views on the election and the vote-counting process as discussed during the interview.

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