Katie Porter lost it.
The Democratic front-runner for governor of California was giving a routine TV interview to the CBS station in Sacramento when reporter Julie Watts asked if she supported Gov. Gavin Newsom’s redistricting proposal, Proposition 50 on the Nov. 4 special election ballot. Porter said she did. The next question caused all the trouble.
“What do you say to the 40% of California voters — who you’ll need in order to win — who voted for Trump?” Watts asked.
You’d have to go back to 1939, when Judy Garland threw a bucket of water on Margaret Hamilton, to find a comparable reaction captured on camera.
“How would I need them in order to win, ma’am?” Porter asked, leaning forward into the shadows with an expression that Margaret Hamilton could only achieve after hours in make-u