“ I do not want all this in front of the camera ”, explains Katie Porter, candidate for Governor Katie Porter in an interview Testy

Former representative Katie Porter, the candidate for the post of Governor of 2026 who has a close advantage in the ballot boxes, raised the eyebrows on Tuesday when images emerged from her end of a television interview after being irritated by the questions of a journalist.

The images show the journalist of CBS Sacramento, Julie Watts, asking to wear, a democrat, what she would say to nearly 6.1 million Californians who voted for President Trump in 2024, and the law professor of the UC Irvine replied that she did not need their support if she was in competition against a republican during the November 2026 election to replace Gavin Newsom.

After Porter underlined her experience by winning a district of the County County Congress closely divided, she looked forward to Watts follow -up issues on her disdain on the need for support from voters who supported Trump.

“I have the impression that this is unnecessarily argumentative. What is your question? ” Porter said.

Watts replied that she had asked all the other candidates similar questions in relation to proposal 50, the redistribution voting measure that Newsom and other California Democrats put on the ballot in a special election in November.

Porter said that she would look for each vote she could win, but then grew up on follow -up issues.

“I don’t want to continue doing this. I’m going to call it,” said wearing, saying that she was opposing several follow -up questions. “I want to have a pleasant and positive conversation. … And if each question you will invent a follow -up question, then we will never get there.”

She said later: “I don’t want all this to the camera.”

Carry, a protégé de la mass. Senator Elizabeth Warren won the congress elections in 2018 and drew attention to grilled frames and her use of a whiteboard to explain complex policies. The 51 -year -old man appeared without success for the American Senate in 2024 and returned to educational law to UC Irvine.

Tuesday evening, the campaign to wear said that the interview continued for an additional 20 minutes after the heated exchange but had not made an additional comments.

The democratic rival of the former deputy in the Governor’s race of 2026 seized her comments, and the Democratic strategists not associated with any candidate in the race also creaky.

“When you are governor, you are governor of everyone, not just the people of your party. It is a bad look to say that you do not want or that you do not need votes of certain Californians, even those with whom you really disagree, “said Elizabeth Ashford, who was a strategist for Govs. Jerry Brown and Arnold Schwarzenegger as well as the former vice-president Kamala Harris when she was a prosecutor general of California.

“But even, even the right candidates have bad nights,” added Ashford. “It was a lack for Katie, but all the interviews are not going to be fine.”