All she said was, "get out of my fucking shot," to a staffer who interrupted a taping Porter was making for the Biden administration in 2021. I am sure if a male candidate had said the same thing, we would not even be talking about it. I was one of her volunteers when she ran for reelection to the House, and she treated all of us kindly, often showing up to give us a pep talk at the office where we toiled to get her reelected. I've worked for other candidates who never showed up.
In the other "viral" clip, this one recent, a CBS Sacramento reporter asks Porter what she’d say to the 40 percent of California voters who voted for Trump, “who you’ll need in order to win” the governorship, about backing CA's redistricting ballot measure, Prop. 50, intended to counter Trump’s gerrymandering scheme. (Prop. 50 is almost certainly going to win, by the way.) “How would I need them in order to win, ma’am?” Porter replied, correctly questioning the premise.
The reporter wouldn't let it go and kept peppering her with followup up questions about it (something I wish reporters would do just once with Trump!), causing Porter to get annoyed and threaten to end the interview. But she did not end it, and continued the interview for another 20 minutes.
That's it. Those are the two videos, 4 years apart, that have people arguing her campaign is over. I guess women are not allowed to show anger even once or twice, unlike our president who is lauded for his "authenticity" when he shows anger on a daily basis.
You can tell your daughters and nieces that women can get angry, just like men.
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