Former representative Katie Porter, the 2026 governor candidate who has a narrow advantage in the surveys, raised her eyebrows on Tuesday when images of her apparently ending a television interview after irritating for the questions of a journalist.
The footage shows the CBS reporter Sacrament Gavin Gavin's news.
After Porter highlighted his experience winning a district of the Orange County Congress closely divided, he was palpably irritated by Watts's follow -up questions about his dismissal about the need for the support of voters who supported Trump.
“I feel this is unnecessarily argumentative. What is your question?” Porter said.
Watts replied that he had asked any other candidate similar questions in relation to proposal 50, the reduction of the redistribution vote of districts that Newsom and other Democrats in California put the ballot in a special election in November.
Porter said he would look for every vote that he could win, but then became irritable by the tracking questions.
“I don't want to continue doing this. I'm going to call it,” Porter said, saying he opposed multiple tracking questions. “I want to have a pleasant and positive conversation … and if each question is going to ask a tracking question, we will never get there.”
He later said: “I don't want all this in the camera.”
Porter, a protected from Mass's senator. Elizabeth Warren, won elections to Congress in 2018 and caught attention by the executives of the grill and its use of a white meeting to explain complex policies. The 51 -year -old was running out of success for the United States Senate in 2024 and returned to the Teaching Law at UC Irvine.
On Tuesday night, Porter's campaign said the interview continued for additional 20 minutes after the watering exchange, but offered no more comments.
The democratic rivals of the former congressman in the career of Governor 2026 seized their comments, and democratic strategists not associated with any candidate in the race also shrunk.
“When you are governor, you are everyone's governor, not only of the people in your party. It is a bad look to say that you do not want or need votes of certain Californians, even those with whom they really do not agree,” said Elizabeth Ashford, who served as a strategist for the governors. Jerry Brown and Arnold Schwarzenegger, as well as former vice president Kamala Harris when she was a general prosecutor of California.
“But, also, even good candidates have bad nights,” Ashford added. “This was a fault for Katie, but not all interviews are going to go very well.”
