Rep. Katie Porter’s career whiteboard is now freshly wiped clean in a not wholly unexpected way but, at 50, she’s still got a lot of blank space left. It’s now a What’s Next Board.

After all, she’s eight years younger than Vice President Kamala Harris and about six years younger than the soon-to-be termed-out Gov. Gavin Newsom. Oh, and she’s 27 years younger than former President Donald Trump and 31 years younger than President Joe Biden.

Porter’s problem isn’t her age, it’s how does she find the reset button?

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Porter’s exit from the U.S. Senate race was, shall we say, not perfectly executed. On Election Night, she tartly observed that “we had the establishment running scared — withstanding 3-to-1 in TV spending and an onslaught of billionaires spending millions to rig this election.”

Porter got her tone wrong, but she’s factually right. There were some billionaire crypto guys dropping a lot of money on ads against her that were now-typical fare: ominous narration, creepy music and so on.

The problem was that the word “rigged” in relation to elections is a registered trademark of Trump, so a lot of fellow Democrats landed on Porter for her choice of........

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