It's no secret that former Orange County congresswoman Katie Porter is leading the race to become California's next governor. But it's also no secret that she can be kind of a dick. You know, like Amy Klobuchar mean.

So, inexorably, the Democratic establishment was going to trot out old clips of Porter yelling at her aides. What we didn't foresee was that she was also going to just go on TV and have similar outbursts with TV reporters. (shout out to CBS Sacramento's Katie Watts for handling that so well).

All of this to-do has Californians wondering if Porter has opened the door for other challengers to take the lead in the race, such as Senator Alex Padilla. Others are whispering that Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis may re-enter the race.

We discuss Porter's flub, then run an update on the big players in the governor's race.

Finally, we are happy to report that Rep. Kevin Kiley is facing a well known (albeit boring as f*ck) challenger in former state senator (and 2024 Sacramento mayoral candidate) Dr. Richard Pan. Does Pan live in the district today? Will he live in it after Prop. 50 passes? We don't know. But with CA-3 set to shift from a +4 Republican district to +10 Democrat, we're fairly certain that Kiley is toast.

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