Column: Katie Porter goes MAGA, claiming California’s election was rigged. It wasn’t

By claiming she lost a rigged Senate primary, Katie Porter has irresponsibly fueled doubts about our election system, which could jeopardize her political future. This, Porter continued, despite her being massively outspent on TV and facing an “onslaught of billionaires spending millions to rig this election.” That word — rig — suggesting there was something illicit, fishy or not entirely kosher about this week’s California primary, wasn’t just groundless and self-serving. “But maybe you should look in the mirror.” Yes, Schiff boosted Garvey by featuring him in millions of dollars’ worth of TV ads, coaxing Republicans to turn out and push the former Major League Baseball star past Porter, a fellow Democrat who would have been a tougher general election opponent. “As the former secretary of state of California, I can assure you of the integrity of the elections and the results.” Porter fought hard to win her Orange County seat in 2018 and soon became a household name, wielding her whiteboard like a lance as she took on billionaire CEOs and a gallery of corporate ne’er-do-wells. “Instead of stepping off the stage and congratulating Adam Schiff, who won, she’s chosen to be incredibly unhelpful to her party as well as to the people she currently represents,” said Kaufman, the Democratic strategist.