The former representative Katie Porter d’Irvine received the approval of an eminent group of democrats who support candidates who support abortion rights on Monday. The organization could provide significant funding and local support to stimulate the governor’s campaign in 2026 to carry.
“Katie Porter has spent her career to hold the powerful officials, to fight costs and to take officials from the Wall Street and Trump administration to provide results to the families of workers in California,” said Jessica Mackler, president of Emily’s list. “At a time when President Trump and his allies attack Californian health care and make their lives more expensive, Katie is the proven leader that California needs.”
The name of the organization represents early money is like yeast, a reference to the importance of the collection of early funds for female candidates. It was founded four decades ago to promote democrats who support legal abortion. The group has collected nearly $ 950 million to help elect such candidates across the country, including the support of the successful congress campaign to bring a GOP district to the County of Orange.
“There is nothing that Donald Trump hates more than in front of a strong and powerful woman,” said Porter. “For decades, Emily’s list supported the winner after the winner, helping to elect Pro-Choix democratic women to the public service. They played a decisive role in helping me return a Blue Republican Bastion in 2018, and together, I am convinced that we are going to redo the story. ”
It is not clear, however, how much the organization will spend for the candidacy to bring to be the first woman governor of California. There are several critical breeds of the congress next year which will determine the control of the room that the group will probably throw its weight.
The 2026 governors’ race to replace the governor of Gavin Newsom is widely open after the former vice-president Kamala Harris decided not to run and as Senator Alex Padilla and businessman Rick Caruso Mull, if necessary to run.
Currently, Porter, a professor of law at UC Irvine who presented himself without success for the American Senate last year, has a small advantage in the ballot boxes among the multitude of democrats who present themselves for the siege. The primary is in June.
The list of Emily, who often avoids making a sign when there are several candidates in a race, made her decision after the former head of the State Senate, Toni Atkins, announced at the end of September that she abandoned the race. The former state controller, Betty Yee, remains a candidate for the post of governor.
