Former Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., leads among possible candidates for governor of California in the latest poll from Politico-Citrin Center-Possibility Lab released on Thursday.
The survey, which was conducted after former Vice President Kamala Harris announced she would not seek to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom, who cannot run due to the state’s two-term limit, asked voters who they would vote for if the election were held tomorrow, listing almost a dozen likely candidates:
Jack Citrin, a political science professor at UC Berkeley who worked on the poll, said that Porter’s “gains from Harris are probably a combination of just being better known and having a clear ideological stamp. She has a particular progressive stamp — more than the other two guys — and I think that’s part of her appeal.”
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