Liberal Democrat Katie Porter hopes to replace term-limited Gavin Newsom when The Golden State elects a new governor next year. But Brad Dacus of Pacific Justice Institute says she may be too much. Recent videos have exposed the former congresswoman and failed Senate hopeful as volatile, crude, and mean.
In addition to the two videos showing her berating her staff members, Porter nearly walked off the set when CBS investigative reporter Julie Watts asked her, "What do you say to the 40% of California voters who you'll need in order to win who voted for Trump?"
"I don't want to keep doing this. I'm going to call it," Porter said.
She also indicated that the mainstream media has never asked her a difficult question.
Porter had been leading the governor's race since Kamala Harris announced she was not running for the office, but polling now shows she is behind a Republican candidate, conservative commentator Steve Hilton, by six percentage points.
This suggests that if the two advance to the gubernatorial election, Hilton might beat Porter.
"Her political campaign may have just seen the end," Dacus tells American Family News, "but we'll have to wait and see."
In addition to Hilton, he says Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco is another formidable candidate that could make headway as things progress.
California uses a jungle primary system, where all candidates, regardless of political party, run on a single ballot for the primary. The two candidates with the most support advance to the general election in November.
The Zogby Strategies poll of 1,000 likely voters found that when campaign messaging is taken into account, Hilton received 29% of the vote share while Porter garnered 23%. A further 23% said they were undecided.
