Katie Porter

What you're saying to black and brown Californians, to immigrant Californians is unacceptable.

But this is also a moment where people want to know you're tough, but they also want to feel like they can trust you.

And I think you're always having to balance that.

And so you're going to see that our first TV ads, they have me, they're up on air.

They have me with the whiteboard warrior.

I'm taking these people to task, you know, Diamond, Trump's appointees, Ben Carson.

And then you're going to see some ads that are more about like what we just talked about, like here I am, a mom.

Don't want my kid to live on my couch.

And frankly, like staring that down with these three teenagers.

Are they ever going to be able to live on their own?

And so I think you always want to have a balance on that.

But I don't think I've changed.

I think it's just like when you're doing an oversight hearing, you're there to do some oversight.

That stings.

In a debate, you're trying to show people different kinds of sides of you, all in a one-hour format.

And we've also got more debates to come.

So make no mistake, people who are not being truthful and not taking accountability for their own mistakes, as you said, I've taken accountability for yelling at that staffer four years ago, five years ago.

And that's appropriate.

But that doesn't mean that Javier Becerra shouldn't have to take accountability for losing 80,000 unaccompanied children.

He should.