{"id":2600492,"date":"2026-05-08T17:05:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T21:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-katie-porter-left-glaring-furiously-crowd-gasping-after-gop-candidates-2-word-comment-on-her-grasp-of-motherhood\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T17:07:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T21:07:51","slug":"watch-katie-porter-left-glaring-furiously-crowd-gasping-after-gop-candidates-2-word-comment-on-her-grasp-of-motherhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-katie-porter-left-glaring-furiously-crowd-gasping-after-gop-candidates-2-word-comment-on-her-grasp-of-motherhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Katie Porter Left Glaring Furiously, Crowd Gasping After GOP Candidate&#8217;s 2-Word Comment on Her Grasp of Motherhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-katie-porter-left-glaring-furiously-crowd-gasping-after-gop-candidates-2-word-comment-on-her-grasp-of-motherhood%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2600492&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In a Wednesday California gubernatorial debate, Republican Chad Bianco challenged Democrat Katie Porter over her stance on so-called \u201csanctuary\u201d laws-state policies described as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-gop-reps-demand-dhs-provide-ice-data-biden-is-hiding\/\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE: GOP Reps Demand DHS Provide ICE Data Biden Is \u2018Hiding\u2019\">limiting enforcement<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-dhs-chief-far-left-biden-immigration-bill-signals-to-traffickers-its-okay-to-come-extreme-incentive-for-future-illegal-immigration\/\" title=\"Ex...DHS Chief: \u2018Far...Left\u2019 Biden Immigration Bill Signals To Traffickers \u2018It\u2019s Okay To Come,\u2019 \u2018Extreme Incentive\u2019 For Future Illegal Immigration\">federal immigration laws<\/a>. When Porter argued that existing sanctuary policies should be enforced consistently,bianco countered by referencing motherhood and a personal-family dispute,prompting a back-and-forth in which Porter accused him of lecturing about parenting.<\/p>\n<p>Bianco also suggested Porter\u2019s \u201cmotherhood\u201d comments where hypocritical, alluding to claims from earlier reporting about conflict in porter\u2019s past marriage, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-gop-rep-denver-riggleman-working-with-hunter-biden-legal-team\/\" title=\"Denver Riggleman, ex...GOP Rep., collaborating with Hunter Biden&#039;s legal team.\">including allegations made<\/a> by her ex-husband. The article frames the immigration debate as an issue of law-breaking and contends that, if Porter wins, California woudl continue resisting federal immigration enforcement.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s gubernatorial debate in California saw Republican Chad Bianco spar with Democrat Katie Porter over the topic of sanctuary cities and motherhood.<\/p>\n<p>The debate, featuring Bianco, Porter, Tom Steyer, Xavier Becerra, Matt Mahan, Steve Hilton, and Antonio Villaraigosa, took place at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/key-takeaways-from-california-governors-race-debate-hosted-by-nbcla\/3887014\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KNBC-TV<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The candidates were asked about so-called \u201csanctuary state laws\u201d\u2013 a more benign way of saying a state is defying federal immigration laws \u2014 with Porter giving a response that caused Bianco to pounce.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we ought to enforce the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eric-adams-demands-change-to-sanctuary-laws-for-immigrants-who-commit-violent-crimes\/\" title=\"Eric Adams calls for revisions to sanctuary laws regarding immigrants involved in violent crimes\">existing sanctuary laws<\/a> everywhere, so we don\u2019t have crazy cowboys taking the law into their own hands,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTell that to a \u2018crazy\u2019 mother who lost her child,\u201d Bianco shot back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSir, I don\u2019t need any lectures from you about being a mother,\u201d Porter told him.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Chad Bianco, what mothers need is respect and support, not your advice. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SwUT2JcCcY\">pic.twitter.com\/SwUT2JcCcY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Katie Porter (@katieporterca) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/katieporterca\/status\/2052246046718447943?\">May 7, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Bianco took the opportunity to quip, \u201cYou might,\u201d in a response that provoked a gasp from the room.<\/p>\n<p>Bianco\u2019s words are an obvious allusion to news coming out about Porter\u2019s home life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/10\/us-news\/katie-porter-dumped-scalding-mashed-potatoes-on-then-husbands-head-resurfaced-divorce-docs-reveal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Post<\/a> reported in October that her ex-husband complained she would verbally accost him while the two were still married, throwing \u201ctoys, books and other objects\u201d at him.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Hoffman filed for divorce is 2013, saying Porter\u2019s insults included calling him a \u201cf***ing idiot\u201d and \u201cf***ing incompetent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe would not let me have a cell phone because she said, \u2018You\u2019re too f***ing dumb to operate it,\u2019\u201d Hoffman added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen she gets angry, she will claw and scratch her arms and then say to me, \u2018Look what you made me do!\u2019\u201d She regularly says that I am a bad parent in front of the kids \u2026 Recently the children began spitting at me and throwing their food at me, calling me \u2018bad daddy.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hoffman spoke about one instance in 2006 in which Porter became upset at how he was preparing food. He said she dumped a bowl of hot mashed potatoes on his head, saying, \u201cCan\u2019t you read the f***ing instructions?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, yes, Porter might need a lecture about motherhood and being a wife, if she\u2019s the absolute terror Hoffman claims.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the immigration issue the candidates were addressing, sanctuary states are a symptom of the warped empathy Democrats have, putting illegal aliens\u2019 interests above those of their constituents.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s outrageous that this is even a political issue. 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