Former Democratic Congresswoman Katie Porter got smoked in Tuesdays “jungle primary” for s governors race, the runoff for which will come in November. Right now, it looks like Steve Hilton vs. Xavier Becerra will face each other in the general election, though that wont be certain for days â but we do know Porter wont be in the final. She plummeted from her position as the early front-runner and darling of progressives last year after questions about her temperament surfaced and she never left.
When ABC News ran headlines like this last month, readers knew her campaign was finished: “Katie Porter fights questions on temperament as the only woman in crowded California gubernatorial race.
Experts are mixed over whether she should have raised outbursts that went viral.”
Porter wasnt the only casualty among former members of Congress who were only months ago measuring drapes for their Sacramento offices.
PBS congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardins reported on former Congressman after his implosion and exit, not just from the race, but from public life:
“Rumors first rose over social media for the past few days, but starting on Friday and over the weekend, we saw reporting first from The San Francisco Chronicle and then CNN, bombshell, specific accusations against Congressman Swalwell.
CNN said that four women accused Swalwell of misconduct. Most were anonymous. One was named. Now, those charges range from unsolicited explicit messages or nude photos, to unwanted touching, to one accusation of rape.”
So Porter and Swalwell both fell from favor among Democrats when issues of their personal conduct overwhelmed progressives approval of their far-left policy positions.
That hasnt happened to the presumptive Democratic Senate nominee in , Graham Platner â yet. As the primary up north is Tuesday, June 9, it is late in the day for Democrats to swap out Platner for someone more palatable. Gov. Janet Mills suspended her campaign, but her name is still on the ballot, as is David Costellos, but Democrats are standing proudly behind the troubled candidate with the Nazi tattoo and a list of scandals that continues to grow.
This drama must make at least Porter marvel at the scale of the lefts double standard. She lost her temper with staffers and got the cold shoulder from hard-left California Democrats, who quickly turned either to Xavier Becerra or . On the day of the vote in California, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer held a short press conference in which he went full Bill Belichick on the former Patriots head coachs legendary “Were on to Cincinnati” moment of a dozen years ago.
On Tuesday, about his backing of Platner after the latest batch of awful headlines about Platners increasingly chaotic campaign.
“I . We will beat Susan Collins and take back the Senate,” was Schumers response to the first Platner question. More questions about Platner followed. Schumer repeated the refrain of beating Collins and taking back the Senate four more times and then, frustrated by reporters following up about Platner after each deflection, Schumer ended the news conference â but not the questions.
Why are they abandoned Porter and Swalwell?
We cant really compare apples to apples yet, as details about Platners many questionable decisions are dripping out in torturous fashion, and there is surely more to come.
But any fair observer has to conclude that Porters problems pale next to Platners.
And while symbol and much else, Swalwell is believed to have fallen for “Fang Fang” â Christine Fang, an alleged Chinese spy â but remember that failure of judgment didnt torpedo the congressmans ambitions. https://www.aei.org/op-eds/the-poetic-justice-in-eric-swalwells-relationship-with-a-chinese-spy/<
