Heidi Montag publicly addressed her husband Spencer Pratt’s Los Angeles mayoral loss.

“I couldn’t love my husband more and be more proud of him. What an inspiration, what a hero,” the Hills alum, 39, wrote via X on Sunday, June 14. The statement was posted three days after Pratt, 42, broke his silence on the results of the election following a lengthy vote-counting process across L.A. county after polls closed on June 2.

“Are they done counting yet?” Pratt had written via X on Thursday, June 11.

Four days earlier, news broke of Los Angeles City Council member Nithya Raman overtaking Pratt to finish in second place behind incumbent Karen Bass. The leapfrogging from Raman, 44, secured her place in the election’s November runoff, knocking Pratt out altogether.

At the end of April, amid Pratt’s mayoral campaign, Montag had exclusively told Us Weekly that she was entirely supportive of her husband and his political aspirations. “I wouldn’t be here without him,” she told Us on April 30. “He is so, so incredible.”

At the time, Montag spoke in further detail about the “behind the scenes” support she receives from Pratt as she continues to grow her musical career. She explained to Us that she and Pratt work together as a team to chase their dreams.

“I mean, I’m the record label, so we have a lot of work to do,” she said in reference to releasing music independently. “It is more than just showing up and performing, which is awesome, and very hard work too.”

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Pratt echoed his wife’s collaborative sentiment while speaking to Us for a May 27 cover story. “Heidi is an actual angel superhero,” he said at the time. “She is working so hard to continue putting out new music and paying for our kids’ food and working so hard to be, you know, the single [breadwinner].” (The couple, who married in November 2008, share two sons: Gunner, 8, and Ryker, 3.)

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Despite Pratt’s failed mayoral hopes, the former reality TV star will continue to fight political powers that he believes are corrupt. “Now that the campaign portion of my mission of ‘Save Los Angeles’ is coming to a close, I’m moving on to the next more interesting phase,” Pratt said in a social media video titled “Save LA — Phase III,” and shared on Friday, June 12.

He said later in the clip, “You think you can get rid of me that easily? Hey morons, I didn’t get in this for political power. I got in this to expose this corrupt machine and nothing’s changed. I’m going to be lighting you up every single day and now I don’t have to worry about offending CNN viewers. I don’t have a campaign loss hamstringing me now.”

Pratt concluded, “It’s war.”