Republican pundit Karl Rove knocked California Democrat and candidate for governor Katie Porter for an interview during which she was combative with a journalist and refused to answer questions about her candidacy for the state’s highest office.
“It says something about it that look, she’s an unpleasant person, we’ve known that from the day that she entered the U.S. House of Representatives,” Rove said during an appearance Thursday on Fox News. “This merely affirms it, and she’s going nowhere, in my opinion, and she was going, I think, nowhere before because knowledgeable Democrats in California knew what a nasty person she is.”
During the contentious interview with an investigative journalist from CBS, which aired Friday, Porter tried to end the conversation after she was asked what she would say to voters in the state who voted for President Trump.
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“Nope, not like this I’m not. Not with seven follow-ups to every question you ask,” she said when asked why she wanted to end the interview.
Clips of the exchange quickly went viral on social media and have been widely panned by Porter’s critics.
On Wednesday, video circulated of Porter getting angry with a staffer who walked into the background of a political video she was creating.
“Get out of my f‑‑‑ing shot,” Porter said, interrupting herself, after a staffer entered her frame.
Porter, Rove predicted, “is not going to be a player” in California politics moving forward.
“She got 1 out of every 6 votes last time around in the primary,” he said. “Nothing she has done in the intervening two years is going to raise that number and as a result other smart Democrats may say, I’m getting in.”
