During Tuesday night’s California gubernatorial debate, hosted by CNN, Democrat Katie Porter squirmed when confronted by a question about a profanity-laced video of her berating a staffer that went viral last year, as well as her recent cutting an interview short and stomping off.
During a 2021 Zoom call, Porter shot her staffers death stares as they struggled with the lighting and lit into them.
“I need the lights off!” Katie Porter said. “The bright lights…I need you to turn these off.”
“These, that are killing me… not that dark!” she said.
Dem CA gubernatorial candidate Katie Porter seen shooting death stares at her staff during a Zoom meeting after they messed up her lighting.
“I need the lights off… the bright lights… I need you to turn these off. These, that are killing me… Not that dark.”
I’m convinced… pic.twitter.com/hE6JCwhjli
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 9, 2025
Moderator Kaitlan Collins asked Democrat contender Antonio Villaraigosa about Porter’s temperament, “That highlighted your opponent here, Congresswoman Katie Porter, threatening to cut off an interview with a reporter.”
“That came after a video surfaced of her berating a member of her staff. If a senior official in your government acted as she did in those videos, would you fire them?”
Villaraigosa responded, “Yes.”
Collins continued, “And you’ve put out an ad of your own now, making light of that interaction that you had with your staffer… which you said you apologized for.”
Porter cut in in a wavering voice, “That is not correct. The ad is about showing Californians what they’ve had a chance to see on this stage tonight and in every other debate stage that we’ve had. Which is that I’m able to take responsibility. I’m able to follow the rules. I’m able to say I’m sorry and I’m able to do better.”
“Everybody in California had a chance to see me on stage with that reporter in the last debate and see exactly how I conducted myself. Californians can decide for themselves about my temperament based on what they’ve seen here tonight.”
“And if these bullies, these boys bullying and bickering, hasn’t been enough to raise questions about their temperament, I would really challenge that.”
“I have taken responsibility at this point hundreds of times, and that’s appropriate because I made a bad decision and I treated someone badly.”
As her voice quaked, she continued, “I apologized five years ago for it, and we worked together for four more years. What I haven’t heard is the people on this stage who have made other bad decisions and other mistakes and other failures of leadership. Not one of them, not one of these men have said in this entire campaign, ‘I’ve made a mistake.'”
“Not for not being able to account for undocumented children who wound up in child labor. You called that MAGA talking points and a hoax, Mr. Becerra.”
“You, like, I could go down the line. I don’t even want to waste my time on this.”
“I just want to say to California, I have taken responsibility. I have shown that. And what that ad is about, Kaitlan, is about showing that I can laugh at myself. I can hold myself to account. And I have the fitness, the temperament, and the best ideas to be governor. And everybody’s had a chance to see now in 3 debates now.”
Watch:
This was painful to watch.
Democrat Katie Porter nearly BREAKS DOWN IN TEARS on the debate stage after CNN’s Kaitlan Collins confronts her with her own profanity-laced video of her berating a staffer.
Collins brought it up twice in just a few minutes. Brutal.
PORTER: “I have… pic.twitter.com/A3EFmw0RJZ
— Overton (@overton_news) May 6, 2026
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