Spencer Pratt slammed California's absurdly slow ballot counting process as he continued to lose ground to leftist insurgent Nithya Raman. 

With Donald Trump's Department of Justice watching on, Pratt's lead over Raman had him looking a sure thing to face incumbent Karen Bass in a runoff.

However, that lead is down to just one point Saturday evening after a ballot release that saw Raman garner more votes than not just Pratt but fellow Democrat Bass.

Pratt posted a meme of Russell Crowe doing complex math equations in the film A Beautiful Mind to X on Saturday night.

'Me trying to figure out how votes get counted in LA,' he captioned the post. 

Raman won 40.2 percent of all ballots counted on Saturday, adding 23,514 votes to her total.

Bass came in second place, with 19,312 votes, or 33 percent, while Pratt finished with just 10,336, or 17.7 percent.

Bass now has a lengthy lead over Pratt, with 34.8 percent of the vote counted so far to the former reality TV star's 27.3 percent.

However, socialist City Councilmember Raman now stands at 26.2 percent, trailing Pratt by just 7,400 votes. 

There remains nearly a quarter of the city's ballots left to count, but VoteHub reported Raman as 'on track' to face Bass in the runoff when the counting is finished. 

It's a different message from the one Pratt sent out just a day earlier.

'Patience,' the former Hills star posted to X Friday afternoon, along with several photos of him outside LA City Hall. 

The Department of Justice has sent one of its attorneys to the city to observe the ballot counting process, as President Donald Trump has once again claimed fraud as two races have yet to be called.  

The tedious process of counting all of California's mail-in ballots has left the fate of Republicans Pratt  and Steve Hilton hanging in the balance. 

Billionaire activist Tom Steyer has creeped within five points of Hilton after today's ballot drop, with fellow Democrat Xavier Becerra already confirmed for the runoff. 

However, Hilton still remains favored to hang on by continuing to gain enough votes from more conservative parts of the state.