Republican pundit Karl Rove knocked California Democrat and candidate for governor Katie Porter for an interview during which she was combative with a journalist and refused to answer questions about her candidacy for the state's highest office.

“It says something about it that look, she’s an unpleasant person, we’ve known that from the day that she entered the U.S. House of Representatives," Rove said during an appearance Thursday on Fox News. "This merely affirms it, and she’s going nowhere, in my opinion, and she was going, I think, nowhere before because knowledgeable Democrats in California knew what a nasty person she is.”

During the contentious interview with an investigative journalist from CBS, which aired Friday, Porter

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