On October 14, California gubernatorial candidate Katie Porter (D) sat for an interview with Inside California Politics host Nikki Laurenzo. This came in the wake of a series of damaging tapes that have emerged of Porter losing her temper during interviews and verbally abusing aides. The entire interview can be viewed here from Fox2Now.
If Porter thought she was repairing the damage from the above videos, she only made things worse. The major part of the interview was about those videos and whether Porter had the temperament to be governor. She admitted several times that she "could have handled things better," but kept reverting back to the usual political talking points about "fighting for California values".
Most damagingly, Laurenzo asked Porter 4 times whether Porter could assure her voters that there were no more damaging videotapes out there. All 4 times, Porter skirted the question, again reverting to the same talking points. Then Laurenzo asked Porter 3 times if she would employ the same tactic that Adam Schiff had used against her in the last senatorial race, in which Schiff effectively boxed her out of the primary race by building up the Republican candidate, Steve Garvey, before defeating him in the general election. All 3 times, Porter repeated the same talking points, not answering the question.
I wish I could say that Porter's performance has destroyed her candidacy, but given the string of recent governors we have had here in California, God only knows. It's very unlikely a Republican candidate can win the governorship in California, and the other Democrat candidates are similarly unappealing. In short, the future does not look bright for California.
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