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MORNING GLORY: California Democrats dumped Porter, but Maine Dems hold onto Platner for dear life

What does Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner have that former Reps. Katie Porter and Eric Swalwell didn’t?

By Hugh Hewitt Fox News

Published June 4, 2026 5:00am EDT

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Former Democratic Congresswoman Katie Porter got smoked in Tuesday’s "jungle primary" for California’s governor’s race, the runoff for which will come in November. Right now, it looks like Steve Hilton vs. Xavier Becerra will face each other in the general election, though that won’t be certain for days — but we do know Porter won’t be in the final. She plummeted from her position as the early front-runner and darling of progressives last year after questions about her temperament surfaced and she never left.

When ABC News ran headlines like this last month, readers knew her campaign was finished: "Katie Porter fights questions on temperament as the only woman in crowded California gubernatorial race.

Experts are mixed over whether she should have raised outbursts that went viral."

Porter wasn’t the only casualty among former members of Congress who were only months ago measuring drapes for their Sacramento offices.

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PBS congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardins reported on former Congressman Eric Swalwell after his implosion and exit, not just from the race, but from public life:

"Rumors first rose over social media for the past few days, but starting on Friday and over the weekend, we saw reporting first from The San Francisco Chronicle and then CNN, bombshell, specific accusations against Congressman Swalwell.

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CNN said that four women accused Swalwell of misconduct. Most were anonymous. One was named. Now, those charges range from unsolicited explicit messages or nude photos, to unwanted touching, to one accusation of rape."

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So Porter and Swalwell both fell from favor among Democrats........

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