Ever since the crypto-cartel murdered Katie Porter’s chance to win the 2024 Senate seat, spending over $10,000,000 smearing her up and down the state, she’s been relentlessly raising money— and now we know why. Yesterday she announced that she’s running for governor… maybe. The maybe is a problem. She’s told her supporters that she’ll get out of the race if Kamala Harris runs. That’s awful.
Katie would make a much better governor than Kamala. She spent yesterday asking her supporters for contributions. But she didn’t say she’d return the dough if he drops out. There are a lot of Democrats running besides Katie and Kamala. Katie’s the best of the lot but others include Toni Atkins, Betty Yee, Eleni Kounalakis, Xavier Becerra, Tony Thurmond, Antonio Villaraigosa, and random rich people Stephen Cloobeck and Rick Caruso.
Her message leans heavily on how awful Trump is. This is her announcement video:
She wrote that “with an emboldened Trump in the White House and MAGA loyalists doing his bidding day in and day out, California— and our country— need a leader who is ready to go toe to toe with extremists. I first ran for office in 2018. I was a single mom of three little kids, running in a district that Republicans had held for decades. But I ran because I couldn’t sit on the sidelines as I watched Trump try and destroy our country. As a consumer protection attorney, I wanted to use my experience to hold him and his administration accountable.”
One reason she deserves high public office: “I made it to Congress, where I was able to save patients thousands of dollars from drug companies who were ripping us off and passed laws cracking down on health care companies that wrongfully denied care. I feel the same call to serve today as I did during Trump’s first administration… We don’t have to choose between defending our values and tackling our challenges. We can work with businesses to create good paying jobs in California and hold corporations accountable. We can keep communities safe and uphold civil rights.”
Reporting for the Associated Press, Michael Blood wrote that “Porter is friendly with the former vice president and has indicated she would step aside if Harris joins the race. In 2012, Harris, then California’s attorney general, appointed Porter to be the state’s independent bank monitor in a multibillion-dollar nationwide mortgage settlement. If Harris gets in the race ‘there are very few politicians who would want to take her on,’ Claremont McKenna College political scientist Jack Pitney said. ‘She’d be likely to win the Democratic nomination, and Democrats are likely to win the governorship.’”