Videos injured Katie Porter’s candidacy to be a governor of California

From Dan WaltersCalmness

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In the widest sense, political campaigns look like military operations with the goals of the mission, strategic plans for achieving them, logistical support and tactical maneuvers to weaken the opposite forces.

However, as Prussian Field Marshal Helmut von Moltke, observed in 1871“No surgery plan extends with any security outside the first encounter with the main enemy forces.”

In other words, after launching a political campaign, it can be undermined by events that even the most exhaust strategy could not predict. The X factor, as some have called it, can dominate the result.

Remarkable examples abound, including The sweat image of Richard Nixon During his 1960 television debate with a cool and telegenic John Kennedy, Revelations about Gary Hart’s lifestyle This sank into his presidential campaign in 1988 and only last year, Joe Biden’s Cataral Debate with Donald Trump, who forced him to give up his re -election campaign.

We can see another implosion in the still Embryony campaigns about who will inherit Gavin Newpom as a manager.

After former Vice President Kamala Harris gave up three announced candidates – Lieutenant Gov. Eleni Kunalakis, a former leader of the State Senate Tony Atkins and State Treasurer Fiona Ma – dropped out, former Congress Katie Porter appeared as a championshipS

However, Porter, who lost an offer for Senate in the US last year, has only 17% in the last votewith rivals, sunk into one -digit. In the meantime, political odds are waiting for two other potentials, USA This. Alex Padila And Los Angeles businessman Rick Caruso to announce his intentions.

Last week, Porter’s campaign underwent a double dose of fame, which can be fatal – videos of her saying and doing things that undermine her carefully cured image of a single mother who holds a rich and powerful responsibility.

The first was Interview with CBS reporter Julie Watts,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Nearly 40% of California voters who supported Donald Trump Last year.

Porter complained that Watts was asking many questions about the matter and threatened to end the interview if Watts continued.

The three -minute excerpt from the interview broke out on YouTube and in social media publications, and Porter’s rivals immediately jumped with criticism and suggestions that she was dropping out of the race.

This has led to Another video that appears on PoliticoA website dedicated to the policy in which Porter, during an interview of 2021, clicked on one of its employees, who was trying to help her answer the question: “Get out of my F —-“.

When the employee tried to explain, Porter withdrew, “Okay, you are also in my shot before. Stay from my shot.”

Nixon, Hart and Biden incidents had enormous effects on their presidential campaigns, not because they intervened on foreign policy, economy or other essential question, but because they damaged their personal images.

As the two videos of the Ping Pong porter through the electronic universe – and are constantly repeated in television and internet ads from its rivals – they undermine its resemblanceBy turning it into the problem, not the positions it occupies, to hope to swing the voters.

This is a classic example of X Factor, which could easily change the dynamics of the campaign of the Governor’s campaign.

This may convince Padila who acknowledges that He weighs an offer for the governorThat this is a campaign he can win. Caruso Dito, if he also believes that Porter’s self -inflicted wounds are fatal as they may be.

Newsom success campaigns were already unusual, with so many potential candidates giving up, dropping out, or in between only a year before the voters had the last word. Porter’s image is still another contribution to the liquid battlefield of California policy.

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