Frontrunner In California Governor’s Race Might Be Worse At Interviews Than Kamala

Former Democratic California Rep. Katie Porter is a frontrunner in California’s gubernatorial race.

If Porter’s campaign is successful, she’ll undoubtedly manage California with the same degree of restraint with which she manages her emotions.

Porter flew off the handle after being asked a fairly tame question by CBS News Sacramento reporter, Julie Watts.

“What do you say to the 40% of California voters who you’ll need, in order to win, who voted for [President Donald] Trump?”

“How would I need them in order to win, ma’am?” Porter fires back.

Thus begins a semantic back-and-forth in which Porter maintains she could win Republican votes, if she so desired, but she doesn’t need Republican votes in order to win.

Katie Porter, the leading Democrat in the race for California governor goes full Incredulous Karen after a journalist has the audacity to ask basic follow up questions when Porter scoffed at the idea of needing Trump supporters to win pic.twitter.com/CSfuzRRZPF

— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) October 7, 2025

“I feel like this is unnecessarily argumentative, what is your question?” Porter eventually asks.

“The question is the same thing I asked everybody, that this is being called, the ‘Empowering Voters to Stop Trump’s Power Grab,’” Watts clarifies, referring to redistricting measures enacted by California Democrats in response to Republican redistricting in Texas. “Every other candidate has answered this question, this is not argumentative.”

“And I said, I support it,” Porter replies.

Watts continues asking follow-up questions. This proves too much for Porter.

“No, I’m saying I’m going to try to win every vote I can, and what I’m saying to you,” Porter begins, before throwing up her hands in frustration and rolling her eyes.

“I don’t want to keep doing this, I’m gonna call it, thank you,” Porter says, addressing someone off camera.

“You’re not going to do the interview with us?” Watts questions.

“Nope, not like this I’m not, not with seven follow ups to every single question you ask.”

“Every other candidate has answered our follow ups.”

“I don’t care, I don’t care, I want to have a pleasant positive conversation, in which you ask me about every question on this list, and if every question, you’re gonna make up a follow up question, then we’re never gonna get there.”

“Miss Porter,” Watts interjects, clearly shocked.

“I’ve never had to do this before,” Porter responds.

“What part of, I’m me, I’m running for governor because I’m a leader.”

“So you’re not going to answer questions from reporters?”

Porter slams her hands onto her lap, appearing frustrated.

“I am, I don’t want to have an unhappy experience with you, and I don’t want this all on camera,” she tells the interviewer.

Way to show off that leadership ability, Katie.

Porter appeared on a 2023 episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, along with fellow panelist Piers Morgan. (RELATED: Bill Maher Praises Right’s Willingness To Engage In Dialogue After Charlie Kirk Assassination)

In the episode, Porter mentions she strongly disagreed with Riley Gaines, a former National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) swimmer and a prominent advocate for sex-segregated sports. Morgan asks Porter to elaborate on her precise point of disagreement with Gaines.

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“I think that it should be up to sporting bodies,” Porter replies.

“But what has she said that’s actually wrong?” Piers asks.

Porter offers a confused response suggesting Gaines is using her political advocacy as a means to get social media attention: “People … using things to kind of get likes and get clicks.”

“That’s not what she’s doing,” says Morgan.

“It’s not?”

Morgan offers the example of Gaines competing against Lia Thomas, a man formerly known as William Thomas. Gaines has publicly decried the injustice of such competition. And being obligated to share a locker room with Thomas.

Porter again retreats to her canned response.

“That is something, that, I trust, I think our sporting bodies should be dealing with and by the way Riley is speaking up for herself, and that is her prerogative, and I respect her free speech.”

“I think she’s speaking up for pretty much every female athlete in the world,” Morgan responded.

Porter also related a not-at-all relatable anecdote about her 12-year-old daughter on “The Issue Is,” shortly after Trump’s 2024 presidential victory.

Katie Porter may not be right for California…or sane.

“She said, ‘Trump is going to win. What if I get raped and need to have an abortion?’” – Katie Porter, confirming she has heaped a lifetime of needless psychological trauma onto her her 12-year-old daughter in the name of… https://t.co/9Hf8I8VZsq pic.twitter.com/cIORsS7ryL

— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) October 8, 2025

“She said, ‘Mom, Trump won, Trump’s gonna win, and what if I get raped and I need to have an abortion.’”

What?

A different clip shows Porter gearing up to ask climate-activist-turned-sailor Greta Thunberg a question.

“I told my 9-year-old daughter that I was going to be speaking with you and I said, ‘What do you think about climate change?’”

“And she said, ‘The earth is on fire, and we’re all going to die soon.’”

“And I asked her how that made her feel, and she said it made her feel angry.’”

Katie Porter is an absolute nutjob. pic.twitter.com/YmFuUmDrBm

— Righteous⚡️Crusader (@Craftmastah) October 8, 2025

Veracity of these stories aside, telling them demonstrates extraordinarily poor judgement on Porter’s part. It’s fair to say they don’t make her look like a very good, or sane, mother.

Porter filed for divorce from her then-husband, and father of her children, Matthew Hoffman, in 2013. The divorce was reportedly contentious. Porter and Hoffman sought anger management help, according to court records reviewed by the Los Angeles Times.

Hoffman alleges that Porter once became enraged over mashed potatoes, according to a petition for a restraining order first obtained by the Daily Mail.

In the documents, Hoffman writes that Porter allegedly “looked at the potatoes in the ceramic bowl and yelled at me ‘Can’t you read the f*cking instructions!’ She then took the ceramic bowl of steaming hot potatoes and dumped it on my head, burning my scalp,” according to the outlet.

Another time, Hoffman alleges, Porter became enraged while he was making Jell-O, asking, “Are you so f***ing stupid you can’t make jello? How f***ing dumb are you!”

Hoffman alleges Porter yelled at their child, Paul, when he was 2.5-years-old, “Get out of my face and leave me alone!”

“Paul immediately started crying hysterically,” Hoffman’s petition reads. “She was towering over him and so angry I thought she was going to hurt him. I rushed in to stop it and she yelled at me ‘Why can’t you keep them away from me?’ [Porter] then struck me in the face,” according to documents obtained by the Daily Mail.

Porter has denied the abuse allegations, according to Fox News Digital.

“Her then-husband later admitted, as evidenced by the attached document, that ‘he regretted making these allegations,’” a spokesperson for Porter told Fox.

“Documents obtained by Fox News Digital said Hoffman regretted making the allegations against Porter in a court-ordered child custody evaluation, but it doesn’t specify whether his regret was due to a lack of veracity or another reason,” the outlet reported.

Hoffman did not respond to Fox News Digital when asked whether he recanted his allegations against his ex-wife, Fox claims.

Porter is remarkably honest about abortion.

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell asked Porter to compare the relative importance of inflation and abortion to her constituents. (RELATED: Major Online Abortion Provider Hit With Wrongful Death Lawsuit)

Democrat Rep. Katie Porter claims #Bidenflation “reinforce[s]” the “need” for abortion.

“The fact that we’re seeing this jump in expenses … pay more at the grocery store, pay more at the pump, pay more for housing is a reason” for abortion. pic.twitter.com/jVjuzXRhPz

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“I think they actually reinforce each other. So the fact that things like inflation can happen and it can become more expensive to feed your kids and to fuel your car is exactly why people need … to be in charge of how many mouths they’re going to have to feed.”

The same logic might be applied, wholesale, to infanticide.

Governor material? You tell me.

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