In the final minutes of Tuesday’s Katy Tur Reports, the MS NOW host discussed the Democrats’ 2024 election autopsy that had not been released as she and Democratic strategist Morris Katz minimized Maine Senate Candidate Graham Platner’s controversies, including a Nazi tattoo, and then went after LA Mayoral Candidate Spencer Pratt’s style. After a discussion of what went wrong in 2024 for Democrats, Tur asked Katz about Platner, which she described as Democratic “hand-wringing”: Let me ask you about Graham Platner. There's a lot of hand-wringing within the Democratic Party about what to do with him, because on the one hand, he's a great speaker and he's charismatic. But on the other hand, he's got some issues in his past that have been ugly. How is he going to be able to deal with that in a general election against Susan Collins, who has proven to be a survivor?   In the final minutes of Katy Tur Reports, Tur and Democratic Strategist Morris Katz minimized Maine Senate Candidate Graham Platner’s controversies, with no mention of the Nazi tattoo, before they hit on LA Mayoral Candidate Spencer Pratt's style, while admitting it works. pic.twitter.com/dVjv29AcE0 — Nick (@nspin310) May 19, 2026   Katz glanced over the actual controversies, like his Nazi tattoo, Reddit comments, and more, and instead went to call Platner “real.” He said, “real people (...) understand the realities that the average American is facing right now,” but they also “understand that when real people run for office, that embodies the good parts of it. It also embodies realities of people who've lived real lives, people who, you know, like, for Graham’s instance, served a decade overseas, struggled with PTSD.” Katz described Platner as a “story of redemption” and “if we don't believe in redemption, then what's the point in this political project?” Tur then turned to the Pratt campaign in LA as she slightly chuckled when introducing one of Pratt’s online ads that described his mayoral run through the The Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme song. After Tur repeated Meghan McCain's comments on Pratt’s strategy as “the way that this generation, my generation, elder millennials need to talk to people if you want to be a politician.”  Katz had some skepticism along with a few chuckles and an admission on its success: “I mean, I don't know if I want to see every politician engaging in the exact same practices. But I think it does speak to something. He's breaking through. You can't argue with the facts.” Tur then actually admitted some of the Democrats’ problem, as she admitted “the homeless problem is real” along with an understatement of “there seems to be a drug issue there.” She also said the Democratic Party sometimes seemed to be “full of a bunch of talk.” Katz turned this into praise for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and said instead of LA’s Mamdani, a conservative Pratt has taken the spot: I mean, that's when I see someone like Spencer Pratt succeeding. I think it's an indictment on us as a Democratic party. We need to. And this is why I think Mayor Mamdani has done a remarkable job and laid a platform where it's not just words.  Every day, you're seeing different actions that are improving the quality of life in New York, and that's the kind of party we need to be. And that hasn't been the result in LA a lot. And that's kind of left this pathway for someone to take that lane.” To close, Tur asked Katz how Democrats could turn the fate of the party around. TUR: Can this get turned around in the next two years? KATZ: With Democrats like Graham Platner, I think. Absolutely. With the controversies of Platner, notably his Nazi tattoo that was never mentioned in the segment, one would hope there were no more Platners. But it seemed likely as some in the media, as seen on Morning Joe, had taken a liking to Platner. The transcript is below. Click "expand": MS NOW’s Katy Tur Reports May 19, 2026 3:55:48 PM Eastern KATY TUR: Let me ask you about Graham Platner. There's a lot of hand-wringing within the Democratic party about what to do with him, because on the one hand, he's a great speaker and he's charismatic. But on the other hand, he's got some issues in his past that have been ugly. How is he going to be able to deal with that in a general election against Susan Collins, who has proven to be a survivor? MORRIS KATZ (DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST): I think that people are really hungry for candidates who aren't politicians, who are real people, working-class people who understand the realities that the average American is facing right now.  And they understand that when real people run for office, that embodies the good parts of it. It also embodies realities of people who've lived real lives, people who, you know, like, for Graham’s instance, served a decade overseas, struggled with PTSD, you know, had not done everything his entire life planning to run for president, like so many politicians who lost trust.  And he talks about this, and I think it's his is a story of redemption. And if we don't believe in redemption, then what's the point in this political project? TUR: I want to play another candidate who is going viral. It's not Graham Platner. It's maybe not some of the Democrats like, but his campaign message is striking a chord. And this is Spencer Pratt. Here's his latest video for the race for mayor of LA. [Cuts to video] SPENCER PRATT ADVERTISEMENT [To Fresh Prince of Bel Air Theme]: Now, this is a story all about how my life got flipped, turned upside down. And I had to take a minute to run for mayor. I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel Air.  In West Los Angeles Palisades, in my backyard is where I spent most of my days. Meeting hummingbirds, relaxing, all cool, avoiding all the bones outside of the school when a couple (...). [Cuts back to live] TUR: Okay, Spencer Pratt. Meghan McCain said, this is the way that this generation, my generation, elder millennials need to talk to people if you want to be a politician. KATZ: I mean, I don't know if I want to see every politician engaging in the exact same practices. But I think it does speak to something. He's breaking through. You can't argue with the facts. TUR: He's addressing an issue in Los Angeles that people, you know, get into the consultant speech on. KATZ: Absolutely. And that is the thing to me, where he communicates in a way that no other politicians communicating and actually does relate to the grand thing in the sense of there's an authenticity there that I think really attracts people. TUR: And there are Democrats who support him and will say, I'm a Democrat, but I also look around the city of Los Angeles and I - the homeless problem is real. There seems to be a drug issue going on there, and it's not being addressed by the very people who say that they're going to address it humanely.  And they look at the Democratic party, and they say, you're full of a bunch of talk, and this is what Wes Moore was talking about. But all you do is give out, you know, proposals and nine-point plans, and you don't actually get anything done. KATZ: I mean, that's when I see someone like Spencer Pratt succeeding. I think it's an indictment on us as a Democratic party. We need to. And this is why I think Mayor Mamdani has done a remarkable job and laid a platform where it's not just words.  Every day, you're seeing different actions that are improving the quality of life in New York, and that's the kind of party we need to be. And that hasn't been the result in LA a lot. And that's kind of left this pathway for someone to take that lane. TUR: Also, more broadly, I'm going to put up on the screen Donald Trump's numbers on the on the poorly educated. And we bring this up because Donald Trump really embraced, really embraced, you know, “the poorly educated love me.” I remember I was in a rally in Vegas in early 2016. It was right after the South Carolina primaries. He got some results back and he was reading them out, and he said, “Oh, I love the poorly educated.”  And it was it was him saying, I connect with the working class. I connect with all types of people. I am not. I may be an elitist, but I understand you and people really responded to that. How does the democratic party win back these voters or win over these voters? KATZ: I mean, I think we need to look at some of the things that, frankly, Donald Trump was able to campaign on. And also some of the things Spencer Pratt is campaigning on. They're lying. And I think we can be clear about that. And we have a lot of points we can make to reveal that.  But in order to take those voters in, I think we need to take seriously what they have been expressing in their support of them, which is exactly what you said. A deep frustration with the democratic party is more interesting and lecturing than listening. And in kind of proving moral points than intangibly improving people's lives. TUR: Can this get turned around in the next two years? KATZ: With Democrats like Graham Platner, I think. Absolutely. (...)