Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) is making all the media rounds to help her Senate run for 2024 to try to replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA). But first, she has to get past the execrable Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) in the primary. As I reported, she did not help herself in a bad appearance on Bill Maher’s “Real Time” show. She got wrecked by Maher and Piers Morgan on a variety of topics including Riley Gaines, alleged Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira, and Jan. 6.
Porter likes to posture that she stands up for women. Yet when the subject of Gaines came up, Porter proved the opposite — attacking Gaines for standing up for women’s sports. Porter said that she disagreed with Gaines “strongly.” Morgan pushed her, asking what did Porter think Gaines had done besides stand up for fairness in women’s athletics?
Katie Porter randomly took a shot at Riley Gaines during Maher's show, claiming the point of Riley's activism is "Getting likes"
"Riley is speaking up for herself."
"I think she's speaking up for pretty much every female athlete in the world" pic.twitter.com/8F5J67vVxb
— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) April 15, 2023
“I think it should be up to sporting bodies to make decisions about who is actually…” Porter said.
But Morgan interrupted and said, “But what has she said that is actually wrong?”
“I think that what she has done is tried to turn this — we talked about people, you know, becoming, using things to kind of get likes and get clicks,” Porter claimed. She claimed that Gaines was “speaking for herself” and Morgan had to correct her, “I think she’s speaking up for pretty much every female athlete in the world.” Maher then talked about how the “woke” left now seemed to be going in the opposite direction of what everyone fought for with Title IX and fairness in sports for women.
Porter is toadying to the progressive line there and she’s willing to throw women under the bus in the process. That says everything about what a horrible candidate she is and why no one should ever vote for her. She’s attacking someone who is standing up for women’s rights. At this point, leftist politicians don’t even seem to be able to define what a woman is, much less stand up for them or care about them.
Porter is the one looking out for “likes” here — more exactly, votes — but she just may have hurt herself with anyone who isn’t a radical leftist with this position.
Gaines has shown that she’s a fighter. She wasn’t letting the unfairness of the competition with Lia Thomas go by without saying something. She wasn’t letting the assault on her at San Francisco State University go by without calling out SFSU’s failure to properly respond and is now looking at a potential lawsuit against the school. She wasn’t about to let Katie Porter’s attack go unanswered, either. She made a great point that Porter completely missed — this isn’t about Gaines’ own personal sports advancement. This is the opposite of Porter, who is clearly seeking her own political advantage.
Hey @RepKatiePorter I'm not speaking up for myself…I'm done playing sports. I'm not fighting for me. I'm actually supposed to be in dental school this year. But I've changed my life plans because I see what's at stake if someone doesn't fight for the present and next generation https://t.co/4QrPvPbnCC
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) April 15, 2023
“Hey @RepKatiePorter I’m not speaking up for myself,” Gaines explained. “I’m done playing sports. I’m not fighting for me. I’m actually supposed to be in dental school this year. But I’ve changed my life plans because I see what’s at stake if someone doesn’t fight for the present and next generation,” Gaines said.
Why is it always women fighting against sex-based protections? That will forever be beyond me
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) April 15, 2023
“Why is it always women fighting against sex-based protections? That will forever be beyond me,” she further tweeted.
Indeed. It was Morgan and Maher fighting for women on that show, not Porter. Gaines is putting herself in danger from the left by standing up for women. That should earn praise, not attack. But Porter — and a lot of Democrats — are more concerned about politics than about women.
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