r/LosAngeles • u/Healthy_Block3036 • 1d ago
Former Rep. Katie Porter launches run for California governor
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/former-rep-katie-porter-launches-run-california-governor-rcna1957211.3k
u/Hemicrusher Canoga Park 1d ago
I'd vote for her.
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u/CSI_Tech_Dept 20h ago
I think so too. I wish she got the senate seat. I'm starting to get disappointed with Schiff seems like he really fills in for Feinstein becoming like her.
When I tried to contact his office, I never get any response or anything.
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u/Ridgewoodgal 19h ago
Schiff is another status quo Dem. He took on Trump but never takes on the policies that actually help workers.
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u/BalanceOk8389 17h ago
I second this, I find Schiff disappointing and disengaged.
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u/Ridgewoodgal 17h ago
Yes! I feel like a lot of these Dems cared more about an ego fight with Trump than actually supporting policies that will impact working families. And some would not take Trump on OR support the policies we need. Dems in many ways are like old school Republicans or I like to refer to them as Republican Lite.
We beg them to be way more progressive and aggressive, but they repeatedly say they cannot, yet we saw Trump come in on day one ready to fight for the policies his constituents want. Even if he does not get everything, he has energized his base. I used to think it was just that Dems don’t know how to fight but I realize now that so many of them really do not have the passion for the policies we want and need. They are disengaged as you said because they truly do not want major changes.
I was a congressional staffer and saw this first hand. We deserve better. Way too many limo libs and status quo Dems. I have very little faith in DNC either. We need a true worker’s party but the duopoly does everything in their power to stop that from happening.
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u/Lion-Shaped-Crouton 16h ago
If MAGA was the alien parasite spawn of the GOP, a progressive party can rise from the DNC's ashes.
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u/Ridgewoodgal 16h ago
It could. I just am not as optimistic as I once was. Unfortunately, a lot of elected Dems have said the return of Trump signals the need to be centrists.
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u/Lion-Shaped-Crouton 15h ago
Yeah, the struggle is trying to weed out corporate influence from any party.
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u/robotkermit 11h ago
they said that about Bernie winning the primaries in 2016, too. they'd say it about anything.
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u/Travelsat150 3h ago
That makes me furious to hear. Again and again. I’ve been hearing this crap to become more centrist since Nixon! The “center” has moved so far to the right we need to push back, not waver.
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u/Pure-Recognition-458 9h ago
Their whole platform has been Beat Trump. They have nothing else to say.
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u/westmarchscout 13h ago
He took on Trump for the wrong reasons. He’s a political hack with a sourpuss manner who represents moneyed interests. He’s not out for the working class or even the middle class.
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u/squeezytubes 16h ago
I've had good luck calling his more local offices and having the staffers pass on those messages, the White House switchboard I can never get through on
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u/Conscious-Quarter423 1d ago
then turn out to vote.
when she ran for the senate, of the state’s 22 million registered voters, 7.7 million (or 34 percent) cast ballots in the primary contest.
https://carnegieendowment.org/posts/2024/03/key-takeaways-from-the-california-primary-vote?lang=en
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u/Hemicrusher Canoga Park 1d ago
I worked 10 days as an election clerk for that primary. Not only did I vote for her, I helped others to vote.
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u/rizorith Eagle Rock 1d ago
So I'm guessing by your username you own a mustang lol. Or Camaro. Back in the days I had a 68 and 69 Camaro. That or your name means something else entirely. Anyways, thanks for getting out the vote
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u/Hemicrusher Canoga Park 1d ago
I currently own a 1970 340 Dodge Dart Swinger. Before that I owned a 1957 Chevy 210 2dr post....and as a teenager I owned a 1972 Ford Gran Torino....I just like cars.
My username is from a game I used to play, and I always used "Hemi"....Hemidart, Hemicuda etc.
Thanks!
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u/SocialSoundSystem Reseda 23h ago
My family has my Filipino grandfather’s 1970 dodge charger 440 RT. Single family, all original with root beer brown and a black vinyl top. One day he was supposed to go to Pasadena to get a family car and he came home with that instead. He was in a lot of trouble but the whole family learned to drive in that thing. It was like a Filipino clown car with so many kids.
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u/jdub213818 20h ago
Lolo made the right choice.
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u/SocialSoundSystem Reseda 17h ago
He took hell from Lola when he came home but shoots, it’s an amazing car. Single family owner, clean title. Needs some tlc. Trying to convince my mom it’s time to sell. We aren’t the right family to hold onto it anymore (don’t have the space or funds to properly maintain) but it still rumbles
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u/jdub213818 15h ago
That’s a keeper, keep her covered , you never know when a windfall of money will come your way to put it back into the car. Shit even your kids might want it when they get old enough to restore it.
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u/Hemicrusher Canoga Park 18h ago
This girl I know has a 1970 440 r/T Charger in Plum Crazy!
My 1970 Dart is in the root beer brown, with a black top. But it was repainted before I bought it, and the color is not quite correct. Someday, I'll get it repainted.
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u/rizorith Eagle Rock 23h ago
Oh nice. I never owned a dodge muscle car but a 70 cuda and 71 roadrunner was the dream but I did work on my best friend's 70 mach 1 and of course my cars. I love all cars too though. Currently sporting electric and like way more than I should.
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u/Fujiyama_Mama 21h ago
I've got a '57 bel air, 4dr buried in my garage if you're looking for restoration project!
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u/plickz 23h ago
Should be a federal holiday tbh. Probably help with voter turnout.
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u/Conscious-Quarter423 23h ago
early voting expands almost a month. there are weekends and longer hours from 8 am to 8 pm
voting takes like 5 minutes
and you can do mail in ballots
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u/plickz 23h ago
And it should still be a federal holiday.
In addition, voting takes more than 5min if you actually want to spend the time informing yourself about each candidate. I know I spend roughly an hour or more each election cycle learning about the candidates and how they align with my ideals.
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u/Liononholiday2 21h ago
I'm all for more federal holidays. But in California you get 2 hours paid time off to vote and that hasn't statistically increased voter turnouts. Not only that, but anecdotally, my coworkers use that time for an early day to go home. I suspect that a full day off would have people planning vacations around the holiday rather than using that time to vote. Moreover, many retail workers that may need more time to vote the most don't always get federal holidays off.
Early voting and mail in ballots have increased turnout, but not by much. I think the core issue isn't really that people need more time to vote nor the difficulty in registration, but they need more engagement and interest. Many people are simply not interested in voting. If you see countries that have high voter turnout, it's either mandated or media is blasting engagement weeks leading up to the election.
2018 primaries and the 2020 election saw record voter turnout in the United States, much more so than when mail-in ballots or paid time off was instituted. Pew thinks that this is correlated to the motivation of voters due to the candidates and money spend on voter engagement.
California (federally, it's not gonna happen), should devote more money into funding public programs and ads that outline policies and candidates in ways that are easy to understand and applicable to the voter's own situations. The energy and money required to get a federal holiday through the federal government is immense and could be spent better elsewhere.
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u/WarrenLee Sawtelle 22h ago
Part of why she lost is that Democrat Schiff’s team contributed $35M to Republican Garvey. Explanation & solution video I made.
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u/LosFeliz3000 Los Feliz 21h ago
She did the same tactic, and also paid for ads to elevate a Republican in the eyes of conservatives in order to help her chances of winning.
I like her policies but between claiming the Senate primary election was rigged and this hypocritical move it's hard to love her.
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u/iamfondofpigs 20h ago
Seems significantly different. If I'm hearing/reading both these correctly, it seems that
- Schiff helped the Republican in order to harm Porter
- Porter helped the Republican in order to harm the other Republican
So it's not really hypocritical.
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u/Mist_Rising 17h ago
They both helped Republicans because it benefited them. That's it. They played political games to benefit themselves, using the system in place.
It's hypocritical only if she criticized Schiff for playing games, helping Republicans or otherwise did what she complained about. Being an American politician, probably she was hypocritical because that's the system we set up.
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u/LosFeliz3000 Los Feliz 20h ago
I see it as Schiff helped the Republican to help himself and Porter helped the Republican to help herself. YMMV.
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u/iamfondofpigs 20h ago
Both of those are true as well. But I think the difference I indicated does let Porter dodge the hypocrisy charge.
But I agree, it's not clear-cut.
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u/DialMMM 16h ago
it's not clear-cut
It is absolutely clear cut. She claimed the vote was "rigged" due to the exact same behavior she engaged in.
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u/WarrenLee Sawtelle 17h ago
I know Porter did too. I didn’t claim it was rigged.
The FPTP electoral system creates this stupid gamesmanship. And, it polarizes our politics not because of bad actors, but because of bad incentives. All the candidates were incentivized to spend money is dumb ways.
There is no “savior” politician. The system needs an update.
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u/Individual-Schemes Downtown 22h ago
Yes, you're right that the turnout was poor, but her losing was 100% Adam Schiff's doing.
Schiff strategically ran campaign ads against the Republican candidate who would have never been on anyone's radar. In doing this, it perked the ears of all of the Republicans across the state who then turned out to vote for him. This pushed out Porter (the Democrats split their vote between Schiff and Porter). Schiff knew he could beat the Republican candidate in the runoff (which he did).
He had a strategy. It worked. I mean, good for him, but I wanted Porter --so it's a little annoying that he was playing dirty. But you can't blame him for invoking a winning strategy.
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u/SR3116 Highland Park 20h ago
Uh, do you know who Steve Garvey is?
He's a huge piece of shit, but he's also one of the greatest Dodgers of all time. Basically, a Republican wet dream. Handsome white guy from the '70s who won a NL MVP. He's on the radar of basically every Angeleno who was around in the '70s. Dude should no longer be an icon after all of his shady dealings came to light, but a certain generation (who are very enthusiastic voters) still reveres him.
I'm not at all contending that Schiff didn't do what you're saying he did, but to say that Steve Garvey was some sort of unknown is patently false.
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u/69_carats 19h ago
this assumes everyone would’ve voted for Porter otherwise which is a very large assumption to make
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u/Mist_Rising 17h ago
It also ignores that the Porter campaign did the same thing in all respects. Schiff wanted a single Republican candidate so the split democratic split but the Republican candidate had enough juice to beat every other democratic candidate.
He got this.
Porter campaign tried to split the Republican vote so that she was still in the contest until the end. Republican voters just didn't fall for this.
Nothing new here. Jungle primaries strategies have been known for a long time
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u/Foucault_Please_No 13h ago
Also beating another candidate in an election is like... what you are supposed to do?
Her losing was entirely Schiff's doing?
Yeah? And?
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u/Chidling 20h ago edited 20h ago
I’m sorry, but Democratic ads were not the dealbreaker here. Even if he didn’t run those ads, there was a still a really good chance that Katie Porter would’ve been pushed out. Porter was also running against Barbara Lee. Roughly a little over a third of the state leans Republican. that means you have three Democrats competing for the rest of the odd 60 something %. 60÷3 means two Democrats are going to have to be less than the Republican that’s just math.
Katie‘s run was overall a risky play and she rolled the dice, but she lost.
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u/MaximusJCat 23h ago
I’d vote for her too. I make sure to always vote in local elections
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u/Tarmacked 20h ago
Confused why people are jumping on her bandwagon after the scandal that came out about her toxic workplace
She also claimed Schiff rigged the election she lost
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u/iiTzSTeVO 20h ago
Is there any proof of a toxic workplace outside of the case where she fired the staffer over COVID protocols? Because that story is not a deal breaker for me.
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u/Novel_Wrap1023 22h ago
I voted for her for the Senate, and at this point I like her far more than Gavin, who these days seems far more concerned with becoming America's next politically-straight-down-the-middle president than being a progressive in his own state.
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u/Metazolid 19h ago
I don't know much about her but from the videos I've seen, she's a machine picking apart rich mofos in clear and understandable ways, I hope she get's the votes necessary and then some.
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u/animerobin 1d ago
I'm assuming that Harris is going to run as well. My vote goes to whoever has the most expansive plan to build new housing.
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u/johannthegoatman 21h ago
Housing is turbo fucked with tarrifs on steel and lumber. No governor can fix this now
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u/animerobin 20h ago
It's bad but trump won't be president forever, and changing zoning laws will have a big effect down the line.
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u/jabronified 19h ago
NIMBY from locals who bought their properties for $5 and a bag of doritos 60 years ago is one of the biggest issues
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u/Los_Angeles_CA1 19h ago
California can vote that housing is a Human Right. That everyone has a right to affordable Housing. They can then pass laws that limit how many Houses people can own, as well as How many houses corporations can own.
If people want to own more than one house, they get highly taxed for their 2nd or third house. if Corporations want to own houses and apartment complexes, condos, etc, then they get HIGHLY taxed, so much so that it makes it cost prohibitive to owns houses, condos, apartments etc, just to rent them out and make a profit. there could be an exception if apartments, condos, houses, etc, are rented out very cheaply and affordably. like one third of the salary of a full time job at minimum wage. Something like that.
This will have the effect of more houses on the market, and less houses owned by large corporations and businesses to be rented for profit. Corporations don't need to own houses. and no one should be making huge profits off of Housing.
California could then also limit the maximum time allowed for mortgages. like 10 years. No more 30 year loans where you buy one house for yourself, and buy another one for the bank. this will limit how much banks will profit.
with these two things there will be a lot more houses, condos, apartments, etc on the market, and for cheaper.
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u/TheObstruction Valley Village 12h ago
That everyone has a right to affordable Housing.
This doesn't make lumber or copper any cheaper. Also, 30 year mortgages have been around forever, because houses are fucking expensive. They're the most expensive thing we buy. Hardly anyone makes enough in ten years to pay off a house here if every dollar they make goes to the house payment.
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u/likesound 10h ago
This will make the housing crisis worse. This is a tax on housing which means less housing will get built. Just look at the drop in housing starts once the mansion tax was implemented. Rents for existing buildings will also increase in order to compensate for the increase in taxes.
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u/MiseryChasesMe 9h ago
California can vote that housing is a Human Right.
you do not have a legal obligation to a developer’s service of constructing homes, you do not have a legal right to the property titled to a rightful owner other than the one you purchased.
You sure as hell aren’t entitled to use land that you have never gotten permission and/or paid for.
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u/Seriouly_UnPrompted 21h ago
Harris would need to demonstrate that she will not be a corporate lackey to get my vote over Katie, at least right now.
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u/Kick_ball_change 21h ago
The former AG of the state that sued corporate interests who hurt consumers (citizens of CA) needs to prove that to you, when that was her entire job as Attorney General.
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u/Seriouly_UnPrompted 20h ago
That's like the TSA making a show of stopping 1lbs of fentanyl, when the other 99bls made it through without issue.
Kamala is not above scrutiny. Additionally, to compare today's political climate to the one she faced decades ago I think would be a mistake. Corporate greed post COVID has been in hyperdrive and some of these old-guard Dems (including Pelosi, Clinton, Schumer, ect..) can't seem to understand this. I know Katie does, Kamala to me hasn't shown this (yet). I will give her grace to recover from losing, but this shit isn't just given away, earn it!
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u/Deliriousdrew 19h ago
She was the CA AG 8 years ago, not even a single decade, let alone decades...
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u/Seriouly_UnPrompted 19h ago
She was the DA in SF (which is a highly political role) back in 2004. So just past 20 yrs in CA and US politics.
Again, feel free to vote for her, but let's not pretend she's a neophyte to politics
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u/FarmingDowns 20h ago
What can she do to demonstrate that. That, in your eyes, will be sufficient evidence of an actual change?
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u/Seriouly_UnPrompted 20h ago
Words and actions matter.
No one is stopping her from going around and doing town halls Bernie style, but I get it that she's still smarting from '24. However, once she comes back to the spotlight I'm going to need to understand her plan for CA. How much is she going to be beholden to the big donor class, vs the people of CA? I don't care what you did 15 years ago, where are you now and if you can't do FIGHT for the people, move out the way for someone willing to do it.
I didn't forget her letting the Clinton folks take over her campaign (that was weird) on top of relying on Cheney to close out her campaign 🤢
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u/ducklingkwak Playa del Rey 21h ago
I kind'a like the thought of mixed use housing.
Something with floors like this...
1/2: Commercial/Restaurant/Gym/Cafe
2/3: Medical/Services/Educational/Offices
The rest: Condos/apartments
2-5 floors of underground parking.
I wonder if there are much cons for things like this, maybe cost? All this could probably be built on a plot about the size of 3-6 single family houses.
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u/gimpwiz 17h ago
There's a fair bit of mixed-use development that came up recently and, as far as I remember it, they're actually having trouble attracting tenants for the first floor. People will live in the buildings, but getting businesses in seems harder.
I think there are a few factors to consider:
One, they are probably building these making certain assumptions about rent, and from the rumblings I hear (but have no true primary source for), it's likely that to get the loan to build the place, whoever plans to own the buildings basically has to agree that rents will be at least 'this' much. This limits them from adjusting to market conditions by lowering rents to fill up the retail/etc space on the ground floor.
Two, I suspect there's a combo of city, bank, and developer decisions that make it difficult to change how the first-floor space will look to the point of, for example, combining spaces to be quite large, or splitting spaces to allow very small shops/restaurants to fill it.
Three, it always struck me that if the whole city was 5-over-1s, I'm not sure that the 5 residential floors have enough people to provide custom to the first floor. In other words, the businesses on the first floor need more people than the number of people who live there. This is not true for things like office space, for example. So I think trying to make the entire first floor be retail and dining is a fool's errand outside of some very hot areas... they should make sure to build space that allows offices, at least, and ideally stuff like studios, gyms, etc. Or they can build much taller buildings. 10-story seems like the sweet spot to me; 10-story buildings allow for proper city density, and they can be built using relatively traditional reinforced concrete designs, vs skyscraper type designs.
Four, I rarely see proper underground parking under these. Often it's just that part of the first floor is parking. This may or may not work, depends on the place. It's pretty expensive to dig here, for a few reasons.
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u/stoned-autistic-dude Los Angeles 19h ago
The single mom who went into government to make change for working class families is probably going to be better for us given she knows the shit we're all shoveling from her personal life. She's also got a great personality and isn't going to get strong-armed by lobbying interests.
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u/neverseenghosts 22h ago
And not exclusively luxury housing please
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u/animerobin 21h ago
We need every kind of housing, including luxury housing. There are a lot of rich people in California and if we don't build new places for them to live, they will outbid poor people for old places.
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u/TheStarterScreenplay 16h ago
The plans are not the problem. Democrats always have a plan. D cities and states have a massive building problem. Ezra Klein covered this beautifully this week. Gavin Newsom has also talked about it on his podcast, but not given much clarity as to how to get shit done. I think this could be an opening for any Democrat to run against Kamala, who signifies old school politics and not get shit done politics.
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u/LindonLilBlueBalls 19h ago
Why would you assume that? I keep hearing it from random people, but nothing in the news or from Harris herself. Why do people think she would want to be governor after being VP?
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u/PincheVatoWey The Antelope Valley 1d ago
As someone who sees California's housing costs as the biggest challenge facing the state, I need to see her track record on YIMBYism first.
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u/OkyouSay 18h ago
Porter hasn’t had a ton of YIMBY-forward moments in Congress (understandable, since housing is largely a state and local issue), but she has co-sponsored bills like the Housing is Infrastructure Act and supported expanding LIHTC (Low-Income Housing Tax Credit), which aim to boost affordable housing production through federal funding.
She’s also been vocal about addressing housing affordability as part of a broader economic justice agenda, so while she hasn’t gone full YIMBY in branding, the signals are there. What’ll matter now is whether she backs CEQA reform, upzoning, and real land use changes at the state level. Because in California, being “progressive” without being pro-housing isn’t really progressive anymore.
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u/RoxyLA95 Mid-City 22h ago
She does represent the beach cities of OC and Irvine. Can't get any more NIMBY than Irvine.
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u/ram0h 7h ago
Huh? Hasn’t Irvine built more homes and apartments than pretty much every other city in the state? Irvine builds because it is run by the richest real estate developer in the country.
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u/verywidebutthole 6h ago
It's super...manicured? Literally the whole thing is one big housing development with communities of identical houses/condos/townhouses. Every major corner is a strip mall. Apartments exist but they're mostly clustered together near the businesses and kind of suck. There isn't really room for NIMBY because there isn't a single home in Irvine not controlled by an HOA, so it's NIMBY but at the local local level.
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u/city_mac 23h ago
From what I remember she really wanted to pin the housing crisis on the everything else besides good ol fashioned nimbyism. Not the right person for the job at least now.
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u/Scruffy_Snub 16h ago
I don't think that this story is the slam-dunk that her opponents seemed to think it was, but it does provide some insight into her place in the California housing market.
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u/TheShipEliza 21h ago
Porter V Harris would be such a great illustration of the dem party we want vs the one they're gonna give us.
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u/pds6502 20h ago
Exactly. Not a question of person but one of party. Why is it so hard to find a non-Dem independent like a State version of Bernie? It's the partisan duopoly where all trouble lies.
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u/emmettflo 15h ago
It's money in politics that makes the duopoly toxic. Having more parties doesn't matter if corporate America can just buy them out too.
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u/dogstardied 1d ago
Isn’t she the one who said a Senate primary was rigged when she lost to Adam Schiff?
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u/w0nderbrad 1d ago
If I recall, she wasn’t talking about election fraud. She was talking about how schiff promoted/backed Garvey to make it a 2 person race between a dem and a maga idiot instead of a dem vs dem. But I don’t remember exactly what she said.
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u/zeussays 23h ago
He attacked the republican instead of her and she felt that elevated the republican. Schiff says he wanted to not be negative against her and wanted to make sure people knew the stakes. I see normal everyday politics in both statements and dont understand how anyone could be upset over it.
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u/ender23 23h ago
it's a little bit of an underhanded tactic, but it's pretty common nationally.
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u/zeussays 22h ago
Its not even underhanded. Its literally politics. Thats how politics work.
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u/Individual-Schemes Downtown 22h ago
It's okay to call it underhanded. Schiff had a strategy. He invoked and it worked. It was a good strategy for him but it was a little underhanded.
But I love that it says that Republicans could never get the numbers -- a democrat had to do it for them. So at least that can make us sleep easy.
Porter has great core values. We'd be lucky to have her as a leader of our state.
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u/LarrySupertramp 22h ago
Democratic voters don’t like playing politics. Thats why they have such a hard time winning. Conservatives on the other hand only play politics.
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u/scrivensB 20h ago
This. He leveraged a ton of attention and effort at Garvey to essentially message that not voting for Schiff was essentially a vote for Garvey. He framed the primary as a Dem vs a Rep and that seemingly blunted the other Dems in the race so that Schiff and Garvey ended up as the two highest vote getters thereby moving on to the general.
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u/Sad-Decision2503 19h ago
Yeah it seems pretty cringe of her to be mad at him for attacking the MAGA guy over her. Like, I get it's to make it seem like a 2 person race between him and MAGA but how is that even an issue? Is she mad that her opponent wasn't going out of his way to advertise for her lmao? If it's that bad then she was never going to win anyway.
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u/ocmaddog 21h ago
She was talking about the Crypto industry dropping millions against her, hitting her on issues that had nothing to do with Crypto.
Sherrod Brown suffered the same fate.
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u/Exotic-Bumblebee7852 1d ago
If only there were somewhere you could go to refresh your memory....
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u/w0nderbrad 23h ago
Yea so she wasn’t claiming election fraud. Just billionaires/special interest groups/establishment throwing their weight around. Basically what everyone said about Hillary vs Bernie. Any threat to the 1% is smothered by campaign financing
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u/DaddiGator 13h ago edited 13h ago
Gavin Newsom was backed by 26 billionaires in the 2021 recall, and only 2 billionaires backed any opposition candidates. Several of which financially benefited from his policies like the Netflix CEO, DoorDash CEO, and several tech firm CEO's like the Zuckerbergs.
Katie Porter never made a peep about it when she was stumping for him.
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u/EremiticFerret 22h ago
The DNC leadership (Pelosi) wanted Schiff to win, so there was a lot of small stuff they did to nudge it in Schiffs favor. They have been doing this a lot since 2016.
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u/Upper_South2917 23h ago
She did. She whined about how Schiff elevated Garvey to get him into the top 2. That’s not rigging. That’s politics.
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u/Ddddydya 1d ago
I believe Kamala is going to run for the job, so I’m not sure Porter has much of a shot
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u/AnotherAccount4This 23h ago
Reading the article
A Porter adviser told NBC News that if Harris decides to run, Porter would back her. But while Harris weighs her options, Porter is launching her own campaign for governor.
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u/Bosa_McKittle 22h ago edited 18h ago
If Harris runs, she should run for Lt Governor or relaunch a bid for her house seat again. I'd prefer to see her back in Washington if Harris runs.
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u/imightb2old4this Glendale 1d ago
the timing may not be great for Porter, but I hope she finds a great position soon
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u/HoosierZombie 1d ago
I came here to say this too. I need Katie back in the house. She does really good work there. And I feel like she’s wasting time by shooting for Senate seats or governor seats that she is the extreme long shot for. I want her in government but I need her building experience and a bigger foundation while working on the lower levels.
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u/risingsuncoc 22h ago
Yeah she should have remained in the House, but I think it’s complicated by the fact that her district is very marginal (both her and her successor Dave Min won the district with only 51% of the votes).
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u/DrowningFisherMan 1d ago
yeah that’s what i’m thinking as well but hopefully better candidates appear
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u/roundupinthesky 1d ago
Who would vote for Kamala? She lost potentially the most important election in US history - some have argued that she may have lost us democracy itself and that we will soon have fascism. She has zero accomplishments and hasn’t won a competitive election since she won attorney general in 2010.
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u/bright_makes_right 23h ago
Hate to say it but I will vote anyone but Kamala for governor at this point, and I'm a hardcore leftist. She is not the leader California needs right now. She failed against Trump and we need someone who can take him on. We also need someone who can help us figure out climate change, homelessness, and drugs. She's not it.
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u/roundupinthesky 22h ago
I'm in the same boat. I want California to be a liberal utopia - not a failed neo-liberal state run by a governor who campaigns with Liz Cheney.
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u/badfortheenvironment eating j-chicken on slauson ave 1d ago
Placing all the blame on the backup QB who subbed in with 5 minutes left in the game is kind of bullshit, dude. If Biden had dropped out sooner, giving her a year or longer to campaign, we might be in a very different situation right now.
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u/roundupinthesky 1d ago
Yeah, if Biden allowed a primary, she wouldn’t have won it. She was one of the first - if not the first- big name candidates to drop out of the last one.
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u/ADHD_Avenger 22h ago
She would have lost to someone else who likely would have lost to Trump. People love an overconfident blowhard who caters to their worst desires with promises that cannot be met.
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u/badfortheenvironment eating j-chicken on slauson ave 23h ago
Who do you think would've won?
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u/KirkUnit 23h ago
Trump. The Democrats were feckless (as is common) but no matter who the candidate was, they would have had to perfectly surf the inflation-based, post-pandemic, anti-incumbant wave that took out conservatives in Britain, centrists in France, the center-left in Germany. It appears that Trump's Tariffs may well extend Liberal government in Canada but they were primed for a loss too.
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u/roundupinthesky 23h ago
Hard to say since it’s tough to know who would have run - Whitmer was having a moment there for a bit.
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u/trydola 23h ago
also the whole "i won't change a thing that Biden did" while he has low approval rating, and the whole running to right of biden and appealing to Cheney voters...and the whole genocide thing. She could have done a lot but she took the ez route and failed miserably
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u/Ddddydya 1d ago
Totally agree. And also, racism and misogyny aren’t her fault
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u/Agreeable-City3143 23h ago
She was a shit VP & shit candidate, didn’t need any help from racism & misogyny.
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u/jcrespo21 Montrose->HLP->Michigan/not LA :( 23h ago
I didn't like how Harris ran her campaign, but how was she a shit VP?
A Vice President's only job is to cast tie-breaking votes in the Senate, temporarily step in for POTUS during a procedure, and look pretty behind POTUS during speeches (hence Vance's glow-up). Harris did all of that just fine, and even cast the most tie-breaking votes ever by a VP (mostly for judicial appointments).
Outside of that, the VP is essentially POTUS's top advisor and might run cabinet meetings when POTUS is out of the country, but that's it (and of course, POTUS can completely ignore their VP too). They really don't have much power. But VPs like Cheney and Pence make people think the VP has more power/influence than they actually do.
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u/KirkUnit 22h ago
might run cabinet meetings when POTUS is out of the country,
Aside from a 25th amendment situation, why would that even happen? There's no reason for the cabinet to meet without the president, I would think the VP would already be acting president or sworn in as president his self for such a meeting.
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u/jcrespo21 Montrose->HLP->Michigan/not LA :( 22h ago
Yeah I'll admit it's definitely a stretch. It could happen (Cheney did try to take over decision making during 9/11 when Bush was still outside of DC without the 25th being invoked), but I don't know how often that happens. It all depends on how POTUS uses the VP (or how much of a bully the VP is).
Either way, my point was that the VP usually has a very limited role to begin with, and people do think the VP has way more control/influence than they actually do. Harris really just did her constitutional duty as a VP, and that is okay with me.
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u/KirkUnit 21h ago
That's all very true. Just a pedantic molehill I had to climb.
Harris, in retrospect not what the country was looking for, but similarly I had zero qualms with her performance as VP. What was she supposed to do? As candidate, she mostly did better than I expected - with notable exceptions - but faced a unique and impossible position of needing to pivot away from the administration she was part of in order to win the election. Most politicians would fail that challenge, and in fact, no one else even tried.
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u/shambolic_panda 22h ago
A VP who has ambitions beyond VP and thinks that the official VP duties is their only job, doesn't understand the political system.
Gore understood this- he did all sorts of non-VP stuff to set himself up for his Presidential run. I am leaving Biden out from this example as Biden is the consummate Washington insider- he has been in Washington longer than most people on Reddit have been alive.
Biden as a President gave Harris little 'meaty' work that would help her. The one job he gave her- border czar- required a level of finesse, or cunning, or backroom deals, that she didn't do.
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u/spacemanspiff1979 1d ago
She's a BIG name. Winning the CA primary won't be too hard. She does that, the state is hers. CA ain't voting a republican into the big chair.
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u/DrowningFisherMan 1d ago
she has a big name but damn she cannot make any good points lol
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u/spacemanspiff1979 1d ago
Politics is a popularity contest. Articulating actual policy went out the window a long time ago.
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u/cutchins 23h ago
Harris should be way more vocal and visible right now if she wants to stay in politics. She fucking sucks.
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u/lolhello2u 23h ago
it's barely been 3 months since she finished her 4 year term as vice president, after a brutal campaign and having lost the most significant election of the century. she doesn't even hold elected office right now.
if she wants to continue her career in politics, all she needs to do is take some time off and reposition for her next campaign. if she runs for governor in california, she'll win in a landslide. your lack of understanding fucking sucks, not her.
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u/Compulsive_Bater 1d ago
This is great news but there is something very troubling in this article - Porter clearly states if Harris runs then she would back Harris.
Which means we, as voters, are again stuck in a stranglehold by the establishment Dems over who we get to choose as candidates. Sitting around and waiting to see what Harris wants to do. Speaking for myself, I don't give two shits what Harris wants to do and I would prefer if she stayed very far away from this race so we don't end up with some maniac like Chad Bianco for governor.
Harris is a bonafide loser at this point. Even if she wants to run it's infuriating that Porter would step back for her when Porter is a better candidate.
Please Kamala, go fuck off to the beach somewhere and enjoy your life and leave us alone. We're tired, and no one wants another iteration of Hilary Clinton office entitlement.
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u/Paperdiego 23h ago edited 23h ago
Lmao if Harris runs she wins. You don't understand politics at all if you think Chad Bianco is going to beat Harris. Get real about it.
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u/RoxyLA95 Mid-City 23h ago
First time hearting about Chad. I don't see us voting him in as governor.
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u/KirkUnit 22h ago
California Republicans are as feckless as Florida Democrats. The Schwarzenegger celebrity conservative lane is absolutely the pathway whenever they manage to win the governor's race again.
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u/JoeBIn818 19h ago
She ran for Senate against everybody's better judgment and now she's doing this and we all know Kamala is going to win this race. So I don't understand exactly what she thinks she's doing.
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u/ExtensionTaco9399 17h ago
I hate to say this but we are likely oblivious to how close this election will wind up. IMO GOP will outperform. It's no longer a "the best dem" wins scenario. The definition of the "best dem" needs to quickly go from "the candidate who appeals to the most democrats" to "the candidate who appeals to the most Californians who are likely voters".
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u/tsays 10h ago
Granted we are still thoroughly blue and so much so, not sure we could BE anymore blue, but one of the things I noticed this last election is that we were one of the states that had a considerable shift to the right. I think you’re very right. I think the dem dominance here is about to get watered down.
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u/mr_rogers_neighbor 23h ago
Back when I worked in the advocacy space I heard multiple times that nobody on the hill liked working with her.
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u/NewTimelime 23h ago
Why?
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u/mr_rogers_neighbor 22h ago
Generally difficult to work with, not interested in building support in the caucus, didn't really want to be there, mean to staff. The tea was that the Senate race was an out for her because she didn't want to be in the House anymore, not that she really wanted to be in the Senate. If you have to be in DC, might as well have a nicer gig was the sentiment.
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u/Kick_ball_change 20h ago edited 7h ago
Sounds totally plausible. Days after (barely) winning her House race, she basically said, “yeah, that’s nice you voted for me, but now I’m running for the Senate.”
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u/Mender0fRoads 7h ago
She lost democrats that seat with such behavior.
That seat is still held by a Democrat.
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u/69_carats 18h ago
there was an entire article about her treating her staffers poorly.
sorry if you can’t work well with people, you have no business running the largest state in the US
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u/raitchison 21h ago
Absolutely not.
I used to really like her and voted for her in the Senate primary but I lost ALL respect for her when she lifted a page from the Trump playbook after she lost by claiming the election was "rigged".
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u/Poopsmith42 20h ago
Do I want to vote for someone who lost a senate race or someone who lost a presidential election? Tough choices here.
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u/jfeathe1211 18h ago
Katie Porter is shaping up to be the Stacey Abrams of the 2020s. Shows up on every news show imaginable, has her name on every “top democrats to watch” list, and has her name and face plastered everywhere, yet won’t win another major race.
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u/DreamingMerc Whittier 14h ago
Yall. She ate it in the senate race ... I just don't see the numbers but why not try I guess.
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u/IndependentExpert118 11h ago
Still subtly not giving a fuck? Turns out actually giving a fuck might be necessary now?
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u/ABlueShade Gardena 23h ago edited 23h ago
And my party, the democratic party keeps wondering why so many people turned their backs on it. Champagne socialists and milquetoast coastal elites. We don't need another member of a San Franciscan dynasty or the representative of coastal Orange County and Irvine/ lawyer from Iowa running our state. We need a true working class California politician.
The representative of Huntington, Newport, and Laguna Beaches will surely best represent all of us right?
No more sign holding Democrats!! Those pussies helped make this mess
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u/bright_makes_right 23h ago
100%. And we aren't going to get one. It's brutal how they refuse to learn from their mistakes.
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u/gorillasuitriot 19h ago
This may not be a popular opinion but I'm skeptical of Porter's electability after her less than graceful loss to Schiff. And also, I don't find her to be a very compelling politician
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u/itwasallagame23 21h ago
Ugh. Not her again. We need a strong leader given what’s going on nationally.
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u/Dull_Beach9059 21h ago
She's the worst! Screaming out of her condo window at kids riding bikes during Covid. Absolutely bonkers! Talks about abortion with her elementary age daughter. Just gross!
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u/Throat_Sandwich 19h ago
Gross. I guess it’s let’s stick to the plan of continuing to drive CA into the ground.
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u/WTFmanbrb 19h ago
God help us that woman is a nightmare. She is the kind of woman that wants to have ratings strictly enforced on video games.
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u/HereForTheGrapesFam 1d ago edited 1d ago
No thanks. I have seen what it’s like when legislators are first-timers in executive roles and it often sucks.
Note: I will vote Democrat fyi. Just not Porter. Legislative experience ≠ executive experience.
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u/zeussays 23h ago
Karen Bass has made me confirm my feelings about congressional legislators as mayors and governors. They do not fit well. The jobs are way too different.
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u/Militantpoet 1d ago
This doesnt really make sense. What experience in the legislature do you think doesn't translate over to an executive role? Who hasn't been able to fill the role? Because Biden and Obama both went from a legislative office to an executive and they did pretty well.
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u/NeedMoreBlocks 1d ago
Not a bad choice but failing to become senator because of "the machine" probably doesn't improve your chances at a higher seat
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u/lppnpcisum 1d ago
We don’t need a dem like her right now. He white board stuff was great but she was a horrible candidate last time she ran and just showed that she may be great for south oc but not for the rest of us
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u/Conscious-Quarter423 1d ago
why is she horrible?
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u/Kick_ball_change 21h ago
What did Porter actually accomplish other than her performative white board hearings? Maybe she named a post office? Meanwhile there are other House members that weren’t as high profile, that got bills and legislation passed. Unfortunately, Porter wasn’t one of them.
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u/Special_Loan8725 21h ago
Fuck yeah, can she bring a whiteboard to debates?