California Democrats have open contempt for 40% of their state’s residents. No one better exemplifies that than Katie Porter, the current frontrunner to be the next governor.
Porter was asked in an interview by Julie Watts what she would say to the 40% of Californians who voted for President Donald Trump, as she would need their support to win. Porter, apparently completely unaware of how California’s electoral system works, laughed at the idea that she should care about any of those voters. When faced with follow-up questions, Porter whined that Watts was being too argumentative and that she wanted to quit the interview.
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Porter has one of the most repulsive personalities of any politician in the country. She is entitled, arrogant, and condescending. She can’t handle a follow-up question from a journalist without completely malfunctioning, because she is not used to ever getting pushback from the media. She has also been accused of abusing both her office staff during her time in Congress and her ex-husband. Worst of all, Porter is leading in the polls to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom, meaning that Californians will be subjected to eight years of her running the state (and the rest of the country will be subjected to eight years of her being in the national spotlight).
It is perhaps the most appropriate outcome, though, because Porter’s open disdain for Republicans is how California Democrats feel. They ignore Republicans in every area of the state, ignoring their input on water regulations, infrastructure, climate mandates, and everything else. That is how you end up with a Central Valley, full of Republican voters, being dried out, littered with unfinished stretches of the high-speed rail, and forced into unreliable electric vehicles that do not accommodate the long drives in the rural center of the state (or in the mountainous conservative regions up north).
California Democrats only pretend to care when they need Republicans to vote their way in a Democrat vs Democrat race, which the governor’s race may end up being. (Porter, evidently, hasn’t thought that far ahead). If two Democrats win the top-two primary and face off in the general election, you will see California Democrats pretend to care about the state’s GOP voters for a few months. Once the election is over, conservative Californians will become an afterthought, outside of the occasional Democratic visit to Fresno to try and pander to Hispanic voters there about illegal immigration.
Some of Porter’s Democratic rivals in this race are pretending to care so deeply about the 40% of Trump voters in the state in response to her comments. But that is only because they know they will probably be running against Porter if they make the top two. Porter said aloud what every California Democratic politician thinks, and that open contempt for a plurality of Californians is her big selling point to Democratic voters.