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Katie Porter

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first: 2024-03-19
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“Was fabulous. But look, I went to Congress to work on having a more fair economy. When I was a consumer protection professor, that's what I did. I wrote articles and I exposed the cheating that banks were doing when they were foreclosing on people's homes wrongfully. When I went to Congress, I exposed the cheating that Wells Fargo was doing, that the fact that the CEO of a bank doesn't pay his tellers enough to live and hasn't thought about that, apparently, ever. I'm going to keep doing that work. I want to make sure that my kids and everyone's kids have an amazing America with a really great economy that provides opportunities for people and mobility and stability. That's the project. Congress was where I did the project, but it wasn't the project.”
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“I mean, I said this in the book that I wrote. The work is amazing. Amazing to get to learn about things, to help hear from Americans, to see corners of your community you've never seen before. Like, wow, to have amazing talented young people as staffers helping you and teaching you and working alongside you, it's amazing. The work is amazing. The job, like if you went to work and your cubicle was next to Marjorie Taylor Green, would you polish your resume, right? So the commute 3,000 miles the pay, some of these issues are really challenging for people. And so I would say I will miss the work.”
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“When they say you're not listening to so and so, I'm like, here's the meetings I took, right? So I think there's a lot we could do to shore up confidence in government.”
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“Why do so many Americans think that something like that could have happened? And that's because we don't have strong enough guardrails in our democracy to stop influence pedaling. We don't have strong enough guardrails in our democracies that people trust their representatives. That's something that I think Democrats should take from this thing. It's not just that Joe Biden didn't do anything wrong. True. Joe Biden did nothing wrong. That's the most important fact. But then there's a strategy question. What do you then do with that? I think the lesson is, boy, a lot of people are quick to believe any inference that Congress is not on the straight and narrow. How do we diminish that in the public's mind? And I think the answer is banning congressional stock trading, beginning to move. I have legislation and why disclose every meeting that I, public meeting, every meeting that I take. So if you go to my office, you want to meet with me, I disclose that on my website every month. People can see who I'm spending my time with.”
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“Mike Johnson? Is there another Johnson here? Like, where's this guy from again? I mean, so I do think that there are Republicans, though, who are, I mean, Ken Buck, you know, exiting Congress, like Representative Buck has been terrific on banning stock trading. Like, he's serious about these issues. And so I think post this whole Hunter Biden debacle, my real hope is that the Oversight Committee will do some real work on some of these issues. Because look, I think the thing to take away from the Hunter Biden sort of nonsense is that he did nothing wrong. There's no evidence.”
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“I think there were people googling frantically trying to figure out who he was when he was being elected, including Republicans in the House probably. I mean, I think literally Republicans were like...”
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“I honestly have had very little interaction with him. So I have a lot of interaction with my Republican colleagues generally. But this man wasn't. Like one that you would have sought out before now? Yeah. Was like that guy”
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“And I got up in the morning and I was like, nobody spent any money attacking you. Tagging me, it's like so great. I've been thinking a little bit about what I want to keep working on in my remaining time in Congress. I just talked to you about town halls. I've been actually thinking about do I want to try to do a town hall on this TikTok issue and to try to help educate people a little bit about why there is a real problem here. I continue to work a lot on issues of money and politics, on transparency of good government. I have a whole bunch of bills on that, and they didn't move under the Democratic Congress. Things like banning congressional stock training didn't move under the Democratic Congress. I think there's an opportunity maybe to move them under the Republican Congress. And so I'm going to continue to try to find bipartisan partners to do those things.”
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“So, no, I have been enjoying getting up in the morning and not opening up my phone and learning about spending against me. That's been like a real”
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“And we are good, and here's why if it's just Trump bad, then when Trump is gone, how do we win in 2026? How do we win in 2028? How do we win down ballot where maybe things aren't even partisan, but issues still matter to people? And so I think that is, I think the president's actually doing a strong job with this. I think that Congress needs to take its cue from President Biden on this.”
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“I'm well aware. So I'm anybody other than that. That was the whole thing, right? That's not, I don't think, how I stayed elected in a swing district. And I think some of my colleagues who have struggled to stay elected, who are now unelected in their swing districts, one of the reasons is that once Trump was gone, people said, now what? And they said, Trump sucks. They said, yeah, but Trump's not in office. So I think there's a risk to the Democratic Party going forward if we don't have that wedding together of Trump bad.”
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“Congress needs to follow along and beyond that message with him. And I think the president's doing a good job of kind of walking the line, I think, between pointing out the harms of Trump, but also offering a really positive, strong vision for how our country can be better if he has a second term. And I think That is the right strategy because you're only going to get, I mean, look, you're only going to get so many people on Trump sucks. Now, look, I won in 2018 on Trump sucks. Was my soul message? It wasn't Katie Porter and her whiteboard. It was just Trump socks.”
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“I mean, I think that President Biden is doing the right things. I think he needs his congressional partners to amplify them, right? So President Biden is really pushing us to talk about what he's delivered on, to talk about student loans, to talk about $35 insulin, to connect what we're doing in Washington to what is happening in people's lives, both what he has done, but also acknowledge where we have fallen short so far, right? We know childcare is still hurting you. Give me a second term and I'll take another stab at that because you did a really good job the first time. Congress gutted it, right? We know housing costs really affecting younger families and people and the racial wealth gap is deepening because of that in a second term housing is going to be a top priority. I think he's pointing us in the right direction. I think”
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“And when I heard that Jared Kushner, oh, Stephen Minucha, Stephen Minucha, one of my faves, was going to buy, I didn't feel like, oh, wow. I'm going to let he get the dad. From the CCP to Steve Minucha.”
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“But nevertheless, it would have stopped all of that along with everything else. Wasn't the choices were ban or sell divest? And I think the divest strategy would be a really good solution to this. I think you got to give a little bit of a runway and do a little bit of thinking about like a...”
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“So, to be clear, we voted to ban it already on government devices. So, to the extent that we're using it, we're using it in our campaign capacity on non-government-owned devices.”
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“Know, right? But I think we are capable of understanding risk and the briefings that we get are high quality and are good. But I think we just have to give Americans some time and figure out how we're going to communicate in a way that's convincing to them. And what I heard on the floor, the Tic-Tac-toe, tic-tac. I mean, that was not it. That wasn't really, I don't think, respectful to where people are who are saying, this is how I make my living, this is how I find other people who share my expression of my gender identity, for example. Members of Congress.”
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“It was really. There's been nothing in this Congress but kind of examples of how not to do it. And I think sadly this was another one, even if the concerns and the need for action in this is very, very real.”
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“Americans not believing that their congressmen are acting in their best interest is also a threat to democracy, and so I think the right thing to do is to start with have a town hall, talk with your constituents, like here are some facts. Bite dance is owned. It's a Chinese company. It's not owned by the Chinese government, but it's a Chinese company. Here's how the Chinese Communist Party can influence Chinese companies. Here's the kind of information that, I mean, a lot of people do not realize what is being collected about them all of the time by American companies even. And so I think it's not even having to get to that classified point. I think it's more fundamental than that. And I think it's also giving Americans a hot second to tell us what they think, right? So we got, you know, we get calls kind of coming in that day, but that doesn't give us time to have a town hall, to talk to people, to show them, to give them a chance to air their concerns and grievances.”
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“I think if Americans understood the risks better, yes, but that isn't, it isn't as simple as you just, if they only, if only you knew, right? I think this is not a healthy way for representatives to engage with the public. Especially.”
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“Most Americans that day are trying to figure out how they're going to pay for gas and pick up their kid on time and they're worried that their dad didn't eat the food that they took over last week for him. You got to do the work of democracy to get to a result that Americans really buy into. And so I do expect this to come, you know, I think the Senate will either hopefully amend this. There might be a different bill that comes to us. I think we need to take these issues seriously. I also think the people who say there are real issues with data privacy and manipulation of information within the United States. And we don't ever seem to want to regulate that or talk about that. I think one doesn't excuse the other. There are separate risks and separate problems with Chinese influence. But this wasn't the right answer.”
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“Right. So I think what you just explained to people, which is that this is the risk, if push comes to shove, ByteDance will do this. I mean, most Americans weren't familiar. In the hours before the vote that TikTok was owned by the Chinese.”
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“Ownership of media, like these are real concerns. You got to bring Americans into the conversation and you've got to have a robust discussion and a carefully drafted bill. This wasn't it.”
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“Yeah, so look, I've said this before. I think if you're doing this job in Congress right, it is a teaching and learning job. So there's a lot of listening to where people are, what they're concerned about, learning about things like the national security issues that are presented by TikTok. But then there's this teaching part of telling the American people why you're doing what you're doing. We did not do that on this bill at all. So this was rushed through. Neither party actually whipped on it, but they tried to put it up on suspension. They had a classified briefing like the day before. And we didn't bring Americans into the conversation to have them understand what we're doing, why we're doing it. This is something that people like and use. So if you're going to make that kind of change, and I do think there are real concerns about the data sharing, about data privacy, about foreign.”
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“I don't know. I mean, a bunch of weenies, kind of. So I think that is a really interesting reversal we find ourselves in now.”
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“Versus kind of the voters that were not really connecting with for whom that's not going to be an engaging message, right? And so I think we'll see this play out in other places. And I think it's something Democrats have to think about. I mean, look, I find myself in the position now of having a president in President Biden, who I think is more forward-looking, more future-oriented, and more progressive than the Congress. And wow, is that a reversal from Where we were when I was elected in 2018 and during that presidential race, right? In which President Biden ran as kind of a moderate traditional candidate. But now he's at the front pushing on childcare, pushing on climate, pushing on taxing billionaires. Where's Congress on those issues?”
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“You're outspent three to one We were, and really, particularly at the end, right, by Shift Super PAC, the $5 million that APAC put into United Democracy project at the end, that was most of his super PAC funding. I mean, yes, I think there's a communication and a resource problem. And look, I think there is a tension. People always say, and you guys hear them say this when you knock doors, like, I don't want career politicians, right? There's a comfort and a familiarity in this very scary time in more of the same, right? And so I think, you know, this is something that I think President Biden's going to face in his campaign. I think Democrats are going to face this generally, right? Which is sort of the rank and file, like really traditional Democrats who are like, we want to not do anything risky, no big policy changes, like stay the course, just beat Trump any means necessary.”
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“So, I think turning out those voters who are skeptical about Democrats and Republicans who think that there's nothing really changes no matter who's in office, I disagree with that, but there are voters who feel that way, and we've knocked doors and I've talked to them. I think TV advertising is a tough way to engage those people. I think mass marketing advertising is a tough way to engage those people. Door-to-door works, more long-term back and forth, like real texting, not spam texting, but conversational texting, which is a real thing that I've used in some other campaigns. And those things are hard to deploy in a state with 39 million people.”
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“I don't want to talk about the van speed limit, but. I'll just say it has a V8 and a very large engine, but I do want to say you don't have to because it's legal to take corporate PAC money, you don't have to do it. And so I feel like one of the things that people said back during this whole controversy in the wake of the election was nobody broke the law here. That's right. It's legal for billionaires to give millions to super PACs who put false ads on TV. That sadly is legal in our system, but I'm a policymaker. So my job is to talk about what should be. I'm not a litigator or a juror figuring out what is or isn't legal. My job is to raise what we should be doing in our democracy and to be kind of a bulwark for that.”
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“Soon, Trump will lose or go to prison, or I don't know, have a heart attack. I'm not sure. We call it Hamburg. I don't know what his demise is going to be. But he'll have his demise. And the question will still be there. Who are we as Democrats? What economy do we want? What society do we want? What's our plan on the climate change? These questions don't become less relevant because of Donald Trump. They actually become more relevant because of Donald Trump. And so I think that is sort of an aspect of this, that I don't buy the premise. I reject the premise that we can't do anything on campaign finance because the law, no one requires you. I always tell my kid this who's learning how to drive. You know, it's called a speed limit. It means you can't go faster. No one says you have to go 65. You can go 63, right? I think that's going to go.”
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“To allow certain forces that benefit from the status quo to convince us we can't afford to change and we can't afford to be different. And I think the ultimate problem with that is we're having a real problem with younger voters. We're having a problem with people choosing to register no party preference. Like how do we build our party? What is our forward future message? And I think if I take anything away from this race, I really tried to focus on that. What are we going to, what are we going to do next? Where do we go in our economy? Where do we go in our society? And I think that the specter of Donald Trump looms large, and I absolutely feel that. And so people were like, we got to think, everything, every decision has to be made in tension with Trump.”
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“There's lots we can do about money and politics. Look, do I want to see that decision gone? You bet. You bet. But I think this is about recognizing our own roles as leaders. So I ran and won the most expensive house race in the United States last cycle without taking corporate money, without taking federal lobbyist donations. So this argument that you can't do it without the money just here I am in my chair, Congresswoman Katie Porter, like it can be done. So I do think that we're allowing in a larger way the fear of Trump. The stakes are so high for LGBTQ rights, for abortion rights, for all of these things that we care passionately about.”
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“This race was manipulated by this spending, it wasn't spending to create a debate about policy issues. That's good. That's the nature of a system we have. This was spending to actually bury a conversation and a candidate who might have had a thoughtful position, which to this day, like they don't know what my crypto views are because they never asked. Nobody's asked until now.”
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“Yeah, no, I think that's right. And I think, I mean, look, the point, I think, is should there be a robust policy conversation about crypto? Sure, candidates should be asked about this. We know that about 20% of Americans may have some kind of crypto assets. Congress has been grappling with this, but true to its motto, solving yesterday's problems tomorrow, Congress has not done anything about it yet. So what's unfortunate and what I think when I say sort of.”
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“The first notification I got about this was the disclosure of the spending. And so this wasn't actually a conversation that I think we should be having about crypto, about technology in Congress. I mean, I have colleagues who are tic-tac mints and tic-tac-toeing and the, I mean, it's, we do need to talk about technology, about financial markets. I mean, but... Unfortunately, and this is where I think it's sort of a really disingenuous spending, why I feel comfortable calling it kind of, I don't mean dark money in the sense that we don't know the players. We know the billionaire's names. But dark in the sense of this wasn't about crypto policy. This wasn't about engaging me, seeing what I think, teaching me, coming to a policy understanding This was just a load.”
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“Well, I mean, it's interesting that people came in and spent $10 million, which I think we should put it in perspective in this race was a huge sum of money, particularly because it was all, every dollar of it was spent on negative toward me. And I was the only candidate who faced negative, right? My colleagues, Adam and Barbara, Steve Garvey, there was no negative on them. And so there was no, what are your views on crypto, Katie? How do you see crypto affecting the economy? Do you believe blockchain can be a force for good? The answer to that last question, of course, is yes. There wasn't any of that. There was just.”
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“Like, please, please. He doesn't own RED. Look, I think we do need to find words that connect with today's electorate. That do not create wrong associations that really do drive a conversation about money and politics. And I think we are in a little bit different place than we were when I was elected in 2018 with a whole group of new house members, first time candidates, people who rejected corporate PAC money. And I do think there's a place where now we're in a little bit of this anything to stop Donald Trump. So the goal is obviously we must stop Donald Trump. But I know that the best way to do that is to run and campaign on better governance on making sure that we're not having influence peddling and lobbying and those kinds of because Americans don't like that. And swing voters really don't like that. And so I don't want to lose that as an important narrative and a talking point and a win-win or so think about Connor Leham and his election when he won in 2016 and what a big deal that was or 2017. I mean, I think it's...”
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“I've thought about this in early in 2018, maybe when I first ran, I wore a red dress somewhere to a campaign event. And somebody said, because people give you a lot of advice as a candidate. And someone said, you can't wear red. That's Donald Trump's color. And I was like, I'm not giving that guy a color.”
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“They're making noises about threatening Sherid Brown, John Tester. These are people who are not necessarily interested in making sure Democrats have the majority and we can stand up to Donald Trump. They have a very different agenda than I feel like this entire race should have been about.”
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“So obviously, I wish I had chosen a different word because what happened with the controversy was it took away from two really important truths. One, our California election officials do a terrific job. I have been through competitive close elections where it has taken days to count. And so I have tremendous respect for them. So what I really make clear is that at no time and in no way would I ever suggest that there's anything other than a careful, thoughtful, amazing election system that actually should be the model for a lot of the country in my opinion. The second truth that is really important that got lost in all of that is that big money does influence our elections. Outcomes are manipulated and distorted when you have people coming in spending millions and millions of dollars at the last minute and that money is not disclosed until after the election so people don't know about it. They can't take it into account when they vote. And we're already seeing like with this fair shake.”
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“I mean, first off, California is our largest state democracy, and any election here between Democrats is always super competitive. So I've been in politics long enough to watch great candidates run great races and not win. I'm proud of the campaign we ran. It was a campaign centered on my values, including campaign finance reform, calling attention to issues like housing, which have not always been at the top of the top of the top of the top of”
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