CA-GOV: Katie Porter camp rallies allies to her defense [View all]
SACRAMENTO, California — Katie Porter’s campaign for California governor is rallying supporters to defend her after a pair of viral videos plunged her into a tailspin this week, fueling bipartisan criticism of her temperament and judgment.
More than half a dozen groups and officials close to the former House member issued statements of support, framing Porter as a “fighter” who can take on the “status quo.” The defense came after POLITICO surfaced a video of Porter berating a staffer in 2021 and a separate clip went viral of Porter threatening to walk out of a television interview.
“In this critical moment in our country, we don’t need polite, go along to get along, establishment politicians that keep getting run over by the opposition — we need strong leaders like Katie Porter that are willing to call it like it is and stand up and fight for everyday Californians,” Peter Finn and Chris Griswold, co-chairs of Teamsters California, said in the statement. The group endorsed her earlier this year.
The statement was one of several compiled by Porter’s campaign, an effort by her allies to contain the fallout from a week that has badly damaged Porter’s frontrunner status.
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