A deranged former California lawmaker of the Democratic persuasion stormed off a CBS News interview last month after being asked a few simple, straightforward questions.
Former Rep. Katie Porter, a Democrat who famously argued that Laken Riley’s murder by an illegal alien shouldn’t “shape” America’s immigration policy, is currently running for California governor.
Sitting down for an interview last month with Julie Watts of CBS Bay Area station KPIX, Porter was asked a simple question:
Katie Porter, the front runner to be the next Governor of California, tries to leave an interview after getting frustrated w/ @juliewattsTV questions pic.twitter.com/mTzZURG86K
— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) October 8, 2025
“What do you say to the 40 percent of California voters who you’ll need in order to win who voted for Trump?” Watts inquired.
“How would I need them in order to win, Ma’am?” Porter, a notoriously nasty Democrat with a bad attitude, replied.
“Well, unless you think you’re gonna get 60 percent of the vote,” Watts pushed back. “Everybody who did not vote for Trump will vote for you? That’s what you’re saying?”
“In a general election, yes,” Porter responded. “If it’s me versus a Republican, I think that I will win the people who did not vote for Trump.”
“What if it’s you versus another Democrat?” Watts asked.
“I don’t intend that to be the case,” Porter replied.
“So, how do you not intend that to be the case?” Watts responded. “Are you gonna ask them not to run?”
“No, no,” Porter, who appeared to be annoyed, shot back. “I’m saying I’m gonna build the support. I have the support already in terms of name recognition, and so I am gonna do the very best I can to make sure that we get through this primary in a really strong position.”
“But let me be clear with you. I represented Orange County. I represented a purple area. I have stood on my own two feet and won Republican votes before, and that’s not something every candidate in this race can say,” she added.
“But you just said you don’t need those Trump voters?” Watts promptly noted.
“You asked me if I needed them to win!” Porter fired back. “I feel like this is unnecessarily argumentative. What is your question?”
“Every other candidate has answered this question,” Watts continued. “This is not argumentative.”
Someone who used to work with Katie Porter sent me this clip from a train-wreck interview with her and said, “Now imagine what she’s like when there aren’t cameras around.” pic.twitter.com/OCF73BrUg1
— Yashar Ali (@yashar) October 8, 2025
Porter, meanwhile, was busy trying to remove her microphone while complaining, “I don’t want to keep doing this. I’m gonna call it. Thank you.”
“You’re not gonna do the interview with us?” a confused Watts asked.
“Nope,” Porter responded. “Not like this, I’m not. Not with seven follow-ups to every single question you ask.”
Watts replied this time by again stressing that every other candidate in the race has answered this question.
“I don’t care,” Porter responded. “I have never had to do this before. Ever.”
“You’ve never had to have a conversation with a reporter?” Watts then asked.
“To end an interview,” Porter replied.
Watts then tried offering a proposal.
“Okay, why don’t we go through — I will continue to ask follow-up questions because that’s my job as a journalist, but I will go through and ask these, and if you don’t want to answer, you don’t want to answer,” she said.
“I don’t want to have an unhappy experience with you, and I don’t want this all on camera,” Porter concluded before walking off set.
Critics responded to the interview by mocking Democrats writ large.
“Democrats are so used to media being their propagandists that they totally lose it when asked basic questions,” conservative radio show host Clay Travis noted.
“Normal, emotionally stable people watch this and think that Katie Porter is an ogreish bully,” fellow radio host Buck Sexton added. “California Democrats see it and think- ‘that’s my future governor!'”
See a few more notable responses below:
Are there other terrible interviews with Katie Porter? This is the most entertaining, unifying thing since tiger king!
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) October 8, 2025
Katie Porter’s meltdown sums up the modern Democrat: entitled, angry, and allergic to accountability.
— RebelRouser79 (@RRouser79) October 7, 2025
Katie Porter is repugnant and all, but she’ll be the next governor of California and it really won’t change anything. Also, gross. Shes quite gross. Repellant even. But Californians mostly seem cool with failure.
— Monkeyboy (@dangitdale66) October 8, 2025
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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