Katie Porter, a former congresswoman from Orange County, announced Tuesday that she is running for governor next year. The UC Irvine law school professor was a prodigious fundraiser when she was a ...

Early polling has shown Porter leading the pack of candidates — if Harris doesn’t run. If the ex-Vice President does jump into the race, Porter has signaled she’ll exit. Gerston and other ...

Her kick-off video touches on the anti-corruption, consumer protection themes that transformed Porter into a whiteboard-wielding political celebrity. But the animating cause underpinning her run ...

Former Rep. Katie Porter says she ran for Congress in 2018 in response to President Donald Trump‘s first term. Now, as she considers a run for California governor in 2026, she says the early ...

Former Democratic congresswoman Katie Porter is entering California’s 2026 race for governor, styling herself as a champion of the state’s progressive values who would fight any effort by ...

Katie Porter, the former Democratic congresswoman from Irvine who ran for U.S. Senate and lost in the primary in 2024, is running for governor of California, she announced in a video Tuesday.

Democratic former Rep. Katie Porter is running for governor of California, injecting another well-known name into the race to succeed Gavin Newsom. “What California needs now is a little bit of ...