Bon Voyage: Alleged Spousal Abuser Dem Katie Porter Pronounces She’s Accomplished With Politics After California Gubernatorial Catastrophe

To paraphrase one other California gubernatorial loser, you gained’t have Katie Porter to throw scalding potatoes on anymore.

Porter, the far-left firebrand who was thought-about a provisional favourite to be the Golden State’s subsequent governor this time final yr, introduced she was leaving politics late Wednesday on her social media accounts, promising to rebrand her Instagram account to… apparently changing into a e-book influencer?

Positive, why not? No matter retains you away from abusing energy and/or staffers.

“I’m accomplished for now with politics and campaigning,” Porter mentioned on her official Instagram account, now rebranded as @katieporterturnsthepage. (I see what you probably did there.)

“One factor that’s at all times been a continuing from after I was somewhat child to now could be to like to learn, and taking quite a lot of solace and coronary heart and pleasure and pleasure in studying,” she mentioned.

“So, I’m rebranding this account as ‘Katie Porter Turns the Web page.’ It’s partly a reference to a brand new chapter in my life… but in addition to one thing I do lots, which is flip the web page after I’m studying.”

Discover that no one acquired in her shot this time. They’ve realized!

When former Vice President Kamala Harris introduced that she wasn’t working for California governor, the race grew to become Porter’s to lose. I say that since you won’t keep in mind that she was the favourite, since she misplaced it with such aplomb that you just virtually thought she was attempting.

The primary signal of hazard was an October interview with a neighborhood CBS affiliate the place she threatened to stroll out over what have been regular questions posed to any candidate who desires to steer any state, a lot much less the nation’s most populous.

Democrat California gubernatorial candidate Katie Porter loses it throughout an interview, complains that she is being requested questions.

Reporter: “What do you say to the 40% of CA voters who you’ll want with the intention to win, who voted for Trump?”

Porter: “How would I want them so as… pic.twitter.com/3pdxMSacYQ

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 8, 2025

That was humorous, however the subsequent situation she confronted wasn’t: Shortly after that practice wreck of an interview, media resurfaced previous allegations from her 2013 divorce filings, again when she was a regulation professor and a California impartial financial institution monitor. In these filings, her ex-husband alleged she abused him verbally and bodily, going so far as throwing scalding sizzling mashed potatoes on him throughout one altercation.

Porter, a former U.S. consultant and 2024 California senatorial candidate, was additionally unmasked as a horrible boss in addition to a horrible partner, a sample which included one other inimitable clip:

WARNING: The next video incorporates vulgar language that some viewers will discover offensive.

WOW. Leaked video of Democrat CA Governor Candidate Katie Porter yelling at a staffer to “GET OUT OF MY F*CKING SHOT!”

THIS is who Democrats need as their subsequent governor???pic.twitter.com/IaTz4sZxN4

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 8, 2025

Inexplicably, as her ship of fools started to sink within the polls, she determined this was the second to make gentle of, slicing an advert the place she says on the finish, “Now, might you guys please get out of my shot?”

#CAPol: “Now, might you guys please get out of my shot?”

Katie Porter is up with a brand new #CAGov TV advert. pic.twitter.com/iRVd7rKcW0

— AdImpact Politics (@AdImpact_Pol) May 5, 2026

Ahahahaha malignantly abusive bosses, aren’t they a scream?

Anywho, this managed to by some means worsen when she acquired on a debate stage:

NEW: California gubernatorial candidate Chad Bianco torches Katie Porter after she apparently tried recreating Kamala Harris’ “I’m talking” second.

The second got here whereas the candidates have been being questioned about California’s insurance coverage disaster.

Porter: “I’m talking.”

Bianco:… pic.twitter.com/kWrIv52VkG

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 29, 2026

KATIE PORTER to CHAD BIANCO: “Sir, I don’t want any lectures from you about being a mom.”

BIANCO: “You may!” pic.twitter.com/90Gi1bpfun

— Day by day Caller (@DailyCaller) May 7, 2026

Katie Porter says unlawful aliens are “one of many solely methods California has been rising in recent times.” pic.twitter.com/B0CYIluedI

— RNC Analysis (@RNCResearch) May 6, 2026

Realizing that she was not solely poisonously far left but in addition doubtlessly unelectable — particularly given two Republicans hovering close to the highest of California’s jungle major polls, which routinely advance the highest two vote-getters to the November election no matter get together, doubtlessly locking the Democrats out — the get together institution began lining up behind various candidates.

First was U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell, who shouldn’t have appeared affordable to Democrats, however did (at the very least in comparison with Porter) till quite a few allegations of sexual abuse surfaced. Extremely, this nonetheless didn’t assist her a lot, as that very same institution lined up behind former Well being and Human Providers Secretary Xavier Becerra, who rocketed to the highest Democrat slot practically in a single day.

In the long run, she completed fifth general within the jungle major, and third amongst Democrats. (Along with Becerra, who superior to the final election together with Republican Steve Hilton, crunchy tax-happy billionaire Tom Steyer additionally beat her with 22.9 % of the vote to Porter’s 4.4 %.)

So now, she’s going to develop into a kind of BookTok influencers, or one thing. I doubt she’ll be a very good reviewer, for what it’s value; as Fox News famous in 2023, she went viral when she was noticed studying the mock self-help e-book “The Delicate Artwork of Not Giving a F***” throughout the Home Speaker vote.

From the general public document earlier than and since, it’s fairly clear that the one factor she internalized from that tome was the vulgarity. Ah properly. Bon voyage, Katie! And keep away from these cookbooks, lest you rack up one other credible accomplice assault allegation.

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