Katie Porter

We got to say to ourselves, what's holding us back from being better?

And so I think that taking on the status quo, being willing to do things a little differently, not just going along to get along.

I think that's an important quality right now.

I also think I'm someone who has came into politics because of Donald Trump.

So like Abigail Spanberger, like Mikey Sherrill, like Deb Haaland, like this whole next batch of governors that we have and are electing.

These are my classmates.

These are my generational peers in terms of when we came into politics.

And we have a different vision of how states should work together.

than I think we have traditionally seen.

And so I think that's really important.

And then the other thing I would say is I'm rolling out real policies.

So I am rolling out concrete things that people can count on.

And so things like two years of college, nobody's confused about what two free years of college means.

Housing, number one priority, been our biggest problem.

I think that's different than what we've seen in terms of all getter done.

I think people need a different level of specificity and they need to know that you have led with a different level of accountability.

So when I was questioning the CDC director early, early in the COVID pandemic, and I asked him, will you make COVID testing free?

I wasn't content when he said, yeah, I'll work on it.

I said, will you today make COVID testing free?

And he did and people got it.