Rep. Katie Porter Says She Regrets Calling California Senate Race 'Rigged'
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"Obviously, I wish I had chosen a different word," the onetime Senate hopeful said.
Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) said Tuesday she regrets saying the California Senate race she lost was rigged against her ― a comment that landed her in hot water given its echoes of election conspiracy theories.
“Obviously, I wish I had chosen a different word,” Porter said in a Tuesday episode of the podcast “Pod Save America.”
Shortly after it became clear Porter would be eliminated in the March 5 primary, Porter thanked her supporters in a post on X and decried an “onslaught of billionaires spending millions to rig this election.”
Critics quickly pointed out that her comments weren’t dissimilar to Trump’s repeated insistence that the 2020 presidential was rigged against him. Among those to raise concern was Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Cailf.), who’s advancing to the general election. The word “rigged,” he said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” earlier this month, “is a very loaded term in the era of Trump. It connotes fraud or ballot-stuffing.”
Porter said that wasn’t her intention.
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