Los Angeles Republican mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt revealed that his political role model is “Jesus Christ” — and that the modern politician with whom he most identified was former President Barack Obama. Pratt, during an interview with CNN’s Elex Michaelson, discussed everything from why he decided to run for mayor in the first place and what led him to become a Republican to his plan to manage the homelessness crisis — and he got candid about political comparisons and role models. WATCH: “Who is your political role model?” Michaelson asked the question directly. Without a second’s hesitation, Pratt replied, “Jesus Christ.” “Okay, I mean —” Michaelson tried to reframe the question. “He was a politician, you know, he had to go in and —” Pratt defended his response. Michaelson tried a different tack: “Are there any modern politicians that you’re especially studying or drawn to that —” “No, no, no,” Pratt was insistent. “I am not a politician. I don’t want to be a politician. I want to be a fighter for the people.” “But you’ve mentioned, though, that —” Michaelson pressed again, and Pratt interrupted. “Obama, yeah,” he said. “I’m most similar to Obama. And I know ‘The View’ ladies said that I don’t have a law degree, so I’m gonna work on that online in the next — before November — I probably can get one, and do the Baby Bar.” Pratt argued that he was most similar to Obama because he viewed the former president as first and foremost a community advocate — and that was also how he thought of himself. The former MTV reality star — in the mayoral race because of the fallout from the deadly Palisades fire that took his home — also explained during that same interview how he had come to be a Republican in a town teeming with young liberals. It was all about his own personal safety, he said, explaining that when he’d been on MTV’s “The Hills,” his personal security team had advised him to get a firearm for his own protection. He and his wife, Heidi Montag, had done so and had learned in the process that Republicans were the ones supporting their right to do that.