Katie Porter, a former Democratic Congress member who ascended to the lead by using a white plate while roasting the CEO of Capitol Hill on Tuesday that it would enter the 2026 competition for the California ruler.
Mrs. Porter, 51, is the highest democratic to join the race. But there is still an unknown group: whether it is the former vice president Kamala Harris will jump.
Governor Gavin Newsm cannot run for his re -election because the state law limits rulers to two periods. Most Democrats who have entered the open race so far are diligent or former government officials with experience in the state, but they are unknown to the public. Voters are more familiar with Mrs. Porter, a law professor who has served six years in Congress, which represents Orange County, opinion polls Display.
Mrs. Porter announced her campaign on Tuesday by launching a video clip that herself as a person fighting to face President Trump’s agenda and bring a new lens to the government Capitol building, where she was never served in an elected office.
After losing the presidential elections in November, Mrs. Harris returned to Los Angeles and thought about the tour of the California ruler. A spokeswoman confirmed that Mrs. Porter will get out of the race if Mrs. Harris runs her.
In December, Mrs. Porter noted that Mrs. Harris will have a “semi -field effect on the democratic side” of the race.
Among the other Democrats who announced campaigns for the position of California governor Ellini Konalakis, the Lieutenant Governor and Mrs. Harris’s friend for a long time; Antonio Villarigosa, the former mayor of Los Angeles; Betty Yi, the former state observer; Tony Atkins, former legislative leader; Tony Thormond, Director of Governmental Schools. Chad Bianco, Sharif Riferside Province, the most prominent fans entering the race so far.
Mrs. Porter lost She presented a show of the Senate seat that Diane Vincenin had long been a longing that died in 2023. She ranked third in the open primary of the state, as the first candidates are advancing regardless of the party’s registration.
Mrs. Porter was in second place in some early opinion polls, which indicated that she had an opportunity to face the general elections against Adam Chef, a member of the Democratic House of Representatives who has constantly led in investigative studies. But the closing months of the elementary elections are characterized by heavy spending by Mr. Chef and his allies, who focused their announcements on Steve Garvi, a Republican and a former Bessbul star who did not occupy his position.
The campaign sites promoted Mr. Garvi as Trump’s supporter and helped to collect the preservative voices behind him, and ended in second place in front of Mrs. Porter.
After the race, Mrs. Porter criticize Referring to the supporters of Mr. Chef, who went to win the general elections in a landslide and is now represented by California in the Senate: “An attack from billionaires spending millions on the manipulation of these elections.” Critics in her party said that she was wrong in using the language that they told her, Mr. Trump, and cultivated doubts about the integrity of the state’s election system.
She later said Sorry Using the word “RIG” but kept a larger point – that the race was affected by technology investors and executives of the encrypted currency who spent $ 10 million on the ads it worked against.
Mrs. Porter’s campaign in the Senate highlighted her experience as a single mother to raise three children in an expensive state. Popular economic messages were associated with advertisements that showed cooked meals at home packed in the refrigerator, and published a book, “I swear: politics is more chaotic than a small bus.”
You are going through similar video topics for three minutes, which was released by Mrs. Porter to announce her campaign for the ruler. She appears to her inside her kitchen in the suburbs, and she talks to the camera about the costs of “out of control” for grocery, health care, housing and sitting next to her daughter, who is doing her homework.
“As a ruler, I will never back down when Trump hurts the inhabitants of California, whether he suffers from disaster relief, attacks our rights and societies, or tightens working families to benefit himself and screams.”
Mrs. Porter ran for the first time to Congress in 2018 and turned a seat controlled by Republicans, which was part of the so -called “blue wave” in which Democrats regained control of the House of Representatives. She won her re -elected twice before nominating the Senate race last year. She returned to the College of Law at the University of California, Irvin, this year.
