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Self-professed liberal Bill Maher threw some surprise support behind LA candidate Spencer Pratt's mayoral run this week.
Maher, 70, repeatedly praised the reality-star-turned-politician's 'drain the swamp'-approach to politics on Monday's edition of Club Random.
He agreed that current Mayor Karen Bass and other local leaders did not do enough after last year's wildfires.
Maher also praised what he put as Pratt's 'authentic[ity]', after the latter promised to scrutinize - and address - local unions' current levels of power.
'You had me at hello,' Maher joked.
He admitted: 'I mean on so many of these things, and you just have the exact right...I didn’t know until I talked to you, honestly, today, but you have the exact right impatience with this s**t.
'It’s very authentic.'
'You know, you’re just- it’s good,' Maher went on.
He advised Pratt, while also acknowledging his rising popularity: 'Just keep doing what you’re doing - we'll see where the chips fall.'
A poll last week from Emerson College showed Pratt - a man who came to prominence on MTV's The Hills - gaining ground on Bass despite entering as an underdog in an increasingly heated race.
A 2-point jump from March put him in second-place, over progressive local Councilmember Nithya Raman. Polls for a primary vote open Tuesday, with the two top scoring candidates progressing to the mayoral election in November.
