00:00What do you say to the 40% of California voters who you'll need in order to win who voted for Trump?
00:07How would I need them in order to win, ma'am?
00:09I feel like this is unnecessarily argumentative. What is your question?
00:13Well, to those voters, okay, so you...
00:15I don't want to keep doing this. I'm going to call it.
00:17A California gubernatorial hopeful snapped at a CBS News reporter
00:21and tried to storm out of an interview after being asked a simple question about President Trump.
00:26Ex-California Representative Katie Porter was recorded trying to pull the plug on the sit-down interview
00:31with CBS News Sacramento last month.
00:35The bizarre encounter, which aired online earlier this week, captured Porter flipping out
00:39when reporter Julie Watts asked how she planned to win Republican votes
00:43as she tries to replace Governor Gavin Newsom in 2026.
00:47Following a brief back-and-forth where a testy Porter insisted she could build support
00:52and would seek every vote possible,
00:54the Democrats suddenly cracked.
00:57Porter seethed at what she described as argumentative follow-up questions
01:00before trying to cut it off.
01:03I don't want this all on camera, she later added.
01:06After the footage started spreading on social media,
01:08Porter's campaign said the interview, which was recorded last month,
01:11continued for an additional 20 minutes.
01:14Prior to her epic implosion at CBS,
01:17Porter had been the clear frontrunner in the California governor's race,
01:20with a seven-point lead over her rivals,
01:23according to the latest RealClearPolitics aggregate.
01:26Incumbent Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom is term-limited,
01:29and with former Vice President Kamala Harris having passed on a gubernatorial run,
01:34the field for the 2026 race has been left wide open.
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