Far-left Democrat Katie Porter, candidate for governor in California, is facing myriad obstacles of late, despite leading the polls against other challengers.
One is the disastrous interview with CBS Los Angeles in which she crashed and burned like the Hindenburg. Another is leaked video of the deranged F-bomb-laced tongue lashing she gave to a staffer.
And third, her record as a domestic abuser has resurfaced. Years ago, her ex-husband said in court filings, she regularly verbally abused him, and one awful night, dumped scalding mashed potatoes on his head.
Californians might be on the verge of electing a mentally unstable governor.
The latest trouble for Porter is the interview that quickly derailed when she thought a reporter was asking questions that were just too tough.
“What do you say to the 40% of CA voters who you’ll need in order to win, who voted for Trump?” the reporter asked.
“How would I need them in order to win, ma’am?” Porter replied.
Reporter: Well, unless you think you’re going to get 60% of the vote.
Porter: If it is me versus a Republican, I think that I will win the people who did not vote for Trump.
Reporter: What if it’s you versus another Democrat?
Porter: I don’t intend that to be the case.
Reporter: So, how do you not intend that to be the case? Are you gonna ask them not to run?
Porter: I’m saying I’m gonna build the support.
Reporter: So you don’t need them to win.
Porter: I feel like this is unnecessarily argumentative.
Reporter: The question is the same thing I asked everybody. … Every other candidate has answered this question.
It didn’t get any better from there.
Porter quit the interview because the reporter asked “too many” follow-up questions.
“I don’t want to keep doing this,” the candidate angrily said. “I’m gonna call it.”
When the reporter said she was asking questions she asked all the candidates, Porter replied: “I have never had to do this before. Ever.”
Shortly after that explosion, Politico released video of Porter’s meeting with former Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm in 2021. “Get out of my f***ing shot,” she raged when a staffer inadvertently showed up in the background.
“You also were in my shot before that,” Porter fussed:
Stay out of my shot!
“For years, Porter has contended with accusations that she was a difficult boss or abusive to employees during her time in Congress, along with unrelated domestic disputes,” the website reported. Porter, the website noted in 2023, had a “‘bad boss’ problem.”
Other resurfaced videos show Porter’s claiming that her 12-year-old daughter worried about not being able to get an abortion if she were raped. The reason: President Trump won the 2024 election. And yet another of Porter’s Greatest Hits shows her claiming that pedophilia is a sexual “identity.”
But those unhappy events and Porter’s pro-pedo kookery don’t compare to what her husband claimed in court papers in 2013.
When she ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 2024, the former three-term congresswoman’s past as a domestic abuser surfaced. Porter, the husband said, was a woman unhinged.
Divorce documents, the Daily Mail reported, show that Porter and her husband, Matthew Hoffman, filed for divorce on March 20, 2013, yet decided to continue living together for the sake of their kids. That didn’t help matters, the website reported; the acrimony continued:
From 2009 on, Porter was the sole breadwinner, and Hoffman stayed home with the kids. Hoffman insisted that Porter was prone to “extreme anger” and had a “history of snapping and screaming at [him] and the children,” and would “claw and scratch her arms” while blaming him for the markings.
Hoffman said Porter frequently said things like “you f***ing idiot!” and “you’re f***ing incompetent.” “She would not let me have a cell phone because she said, ‘you’re too f***ing dumb to operate it,’” Hoffman said.
Hoffman and Porter attended anger management classes in 2009, and his only outburst, apparently, was punching a wall. Porter is certainly partial to the F-word and clearly has an anger problem, which, again, video of her dressing down the staffer shows. But the court papers show that her rages involve violence, too — dangerous violence.
“Hoffman said that in 2012 Porter came home from work one day enraged that the house was not clean and slammed a glass coffee pot on the counter, causing glass shards to spray everywhere and cut him,” the website reported:
“This house is a mess! You f***ing slob! You’re incompetent! What the f*** do you do all day!” Porter allegedly said while the three kids were nearby in the living room. Hoffman said Porter began picking up dishes and saying, “Look how f***ing dirty this is.”
In the Spring of 2006, Hoffman said Porter came into the kitchen as he was making mashed potatoes for dinner. As their oldest child Luke sat in the highchair, Porter looked at the potatoes in a ceramic bowl and yelled “Can’t you read the f***ing instructions!”
“She then took the ceramic bowl of steaming hot potatoes and dumped it on my head, burning my scalp,” Hoffman said.
Court documents also allege that Porter smacked her husband in the face because he wouldn’t keep one of her kids away from her. “Get out of my face and leave me alone!” she raged at the terrified child. “Why can’t you keep them away from me?!” she asked Hoffman, after which she “struck me in the face,” he alleged in the court documents.
Why Hoffman agreed to let Porter emasculate him is a question for another day — as is Porter’s mental stability.
Frighteningly, the RealClearPolitics average of polling data show that Porter has 7-point lead over her closest GOP rival and a 10.3-point lead over her closet Democratic foe in California’s open primary.