Former Orange County Rep. Katie Porter is aiming to make history as the first woman elected governor of California. She’s known for flipping a House seat blue in 2018 and for grilling CEOs with her signature whiteboard.
After leaving Congress to run for the U.S. Senate in 2024 and losing, Porter is back on the campaign trail, leaning into her identity as a single mom in a minivan who’s focused on the affordability of things like housing, childcare, groceries and healthcare.
She took questions from a live audience at KQED’s town hall gathering earlier this week.
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