The warm California summers have nothing on the flaring tempers within the state’s crowded gubernatorial race.
And most of that bickering is coming from just one side of the political aisle.
As Democrats vie to get past the state’s unique primary system — wherein neither major political party is guaranteed to have a candidate in the final two — tensions are rising significantly between them.
As the New York Post pointed out, one of the contenders, California Rep. Katie Porter, is now trying to reframe one of her biggest campaign blunders as an indictment against a fellow Democrat.
Porter told CNN that she was “confident” that the unflattering videos that began circulating in October 2025 of her screaming at various aides and acting in other uncouth manners were ultimately leaked by billionaire gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer.
“I am confident that is the case,” she said.
Steyer’s campaign has denied this allegation.
Hellbound and Down 