Tuesday saw the official start of what is anticipated to be a crowded 2024 primary to fill a California seat that hasn’t even been vacated when Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) declared her bid for the Senate.
The longest-serving senator from California, Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, is up for reelection that year, although she hasn’t declared that she intends to run for another term.
I don’t approach Congress the way many people do. In a video announcing her candidacy for the Senate, Porter said, “I use whatever influence I have to voice hard truths to the power that be.
The two-term progressive legislator from Orange County mentioned her work questioning Wall Street, Big Pharma, and oil and gas CEOs as justification for supporting her campaign.
“To win these fights, it’s time for new leadership in the U.S. Senate,” Porter says.
Even some of her fellow Senate Democrats have questioned Feinstein’s mental stability and preparedness for office in recent years. Feinstein angered many Democrats when she praised Amy Coney Barrett, a Trump nominee for the Supreme Court, and the Republican senator in charge of her confirmation hearings in 2020.
The top Senate Democrat from New York, Chuck Schumer, and her had a “long and serious talk” about the incident.
Feinstein recently rejected to serve as the Senate’s president pro tempore, despite being the oldest member in the chamber and typically getting the position. If she had been given the role, Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) would have been third in line for the presidency.
Where is Katie Porter from? Where did Katie Porter grow up?
Porter, who was born on January 3rd, 1974, grew up in Fort Dodge, a small town in rural Iowa. Her father, Dan Porter, was a farmer who subsequently transitioned into banking. Her mother, Liz, was instrumental in starting Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting.
Porter, who obtained her diploma in American studies from Phillips Academy in 1996, then went on to Yale University. The subject of her undergraduate thesis was The Effects of Corporate Farming on Rural Community.
Calhoun College, today known as Yale’s Grace Hopper College, was where she studied. Porter was also a Chuck Grassley intern at the time.
