Rep. Katie Porter Says She Regrets Calling California Senate Race 'Rigged'

[SunSeeker]

“Obviously, I wish I had chosen a different word,” Porter said in a Tuesday episode of the podcast “Pod Save America.”

“At no time and in no way would I ever suggest that there’s anything other than a careful, thoughtful, amazing election system that actually should be the model for a lot of the country,” she said in the “Pod Save America” interview.

Porter said she was trying to call attention to what she views as problems with laws around election spending.“Outcomes are manipulated and distorted when you have people coming in spending millions and millions of dollars at the last minute, and that money is not disclosed until after the election,” she said.

Both Porter and Schiff rejected all corporate PAC money for their Senate campaigns, as did other Senate hopeful Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) However, Schiff fundraised more than all his election opponents combined.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/katie-porter-senate-race-rigged_n_65f9e007e4b0d47c510044ee

[msongs]

1. one suspects she thinks it was rigged but the problem was she said so. well stand for your beliefs nt

[bottomofthehill]

6. She lost, had her temper tantrum and had found her sanity in a week

4 years later, Trump is still in the temper tantrum stage. Good for you Katie.

[Auggie]

10. +1 (and likely exhausted from a grueling campaign)

[baklava]

12. And no one else was exhausted from campaigning?

I imagine that Barbara Lee was tired, too . . . but she kept her head.

[nilram]

2. Good. Glad she apologized.

Rumors are that she is a bit of a hothead. I think she was caught up in the emotion of the moment.

[baklava]

11. Her response shows she's not yet ready for the Senate.

Hotheads belong in the House. Too bad she gave up her seat.

[usonian]

3. Better to have called for campaign finance reform

and the overthrow of the completely bogus Citizens United decision.

Cure diseases, not symptoms.

[ificandream]

4. Gonna miss her when her term is up.

Hopefully, she comes back and runs again. I suspect she will.

[OnDoutside]

7. Is there no way she can run for the house in November ?

[SunSeeker]

8. Nope, she already endorsed another candidate for the race, Dave Min.

And he got enough votes in the primary to be the Democrat to go up against the Republican in the race, Scott Baugh.

https://apnews.com/article/california-house-election-2024-primary-super-tuesday-fd2808aad5069c950bf0ce5f246f7661

[stopdiggin]

5. thanks, Katie. that is appreciated - and so very much needed

so many people were absolutely dismayed ...

Not the least because it gave fuel - to precisely the kind of voices that are determinedly working to sabotage our system - and the rest of us are trying so very hard to discredit and throw water on.

[Think. Again.]

9. Yes, she mis-spoke in the heat of the moment....

...true election integrity is absolutely important.

We shouldn't focus on just creating a veneer of an impenetrable election system to protect against false claims of 'rigging', but we should also be continually working toward protecting our election system as the main goal.