California Gov. Candidate Katie Porter Cuts Off Interview

California gubernatorial candidate and former Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) tried to end an interview with a reporter after she was asked what she would say to voters in the state who voted for President Trump.

“What do you say to the 40 percent of California voters, who you’ll need in order to win, who voted for Trump?” CBS News correspondent Julie Watts asked Porter in a sit-down interview that aired Tuesday and quickly went viral.

“How would I need them in order to win, ma’am?” Porter responded.

When asked whether she thinks she will win the other 60 percent of California voters, Porter responds “In a general election? Yes. If it is me versus a Republican, I think I will win the people who did not vote for Trump.”

Watts then asks Porter what she thinks would happen if it was her versus another Democrat, to which Porter said, “I don’t intend that to be the case.” Porter argued she has already built support in terms of name recognition.

Porter then appeared to become irritated when Watts pressed her, saying the interview was becoming “unnecessarily argumentative.” Watts said CBS News has asked the other reporters in the race the same question.

“I don’t want to keep doing this. I’m gonna call it. Thank you,” Porter says, looking off camera.

“You’re not going to do the interview with us?” Watts asked.

“Nope, not like this I’m not. Not with seven follow-ups to every question you ask,” she said, adding that she didn’t care that the other candidates had been asked the same question.

Watts and Porter continued to go back and forth on whether Porter would answer the reporter’s questions and follow-ups.

“I don’t want to have an unhappy experience with you, and I don’t want this all on camera,” Porter said.