""I feel like this is unnecessarily argumentative. What is your question?" Porter said."
""I don't want to keep doing this. I'm going to call it," Porter said, saying she objected to multiple follow-up questions. "I want to have a pleasant, positive conversation. ... And if every question you're going to make up a follow-up question, then we're never going to get there." She later said, "I don't want this all on camera.""
Former Rep. Katie Porter, a 2026 gubernatorial candidate, appeared to end a television interview after becoming irritated by a reporter's follow-up questions about nearly 6.1 million Californians who voted for President Trump in 2024 and about Proposition 50. Porter said she would not need those voters' support if she faced a Republican in a 2026 runoff and cited her experience winning a closely divided Orange County congressional district. Porter objected to repeated follow-up questions, said she preferred a pleasant conversation, and told the reporter she would "call it" and did not want the exchange on camera. Porter previously served in Congress, ran for U.S. Senate in 2024, and teaches law at UC Irvine.
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