CA-GOV: Katie Porter Says She 'Fell Short' in Viral Video Moments

[RandySF]

In her first public comments since two viral videos surfaced last week showing her berating a staff member and belittling a news reporter, Katie Porter owned up to her missteps on Tuesday and said she was working to hold herself to a higher standard of conduct.

Ms. Porter, a former Democratic congresswoman, has been the early front-runner in next year’s race for California governor. But the videos cracked open a new phase by spurring opponents to go on the attack and intensifying the feeling among some Democrats that the party needed to find another candidate to be its standard-bearer.

On Tuesday, Ms. Porter was interviewed for the television show “Inside California Politics,” and she later appeared on a Zoom call organized by the Working Families Party, a progressive group that both endorses liberal Democrats and runs its own candidates.

“I absolutely understand that I could have been better in those moments,” Ms. Porter told activists and voters on the Zoom call. “I’m going to hold myself to that standard, to do better and to acknowledge that I fell short.”



https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/us/katie-porter-videos-response.html