SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- In her first public comments since two viral videos surfaced last week showing her berating a staff member and belittling a news reporter, Katie Porter owned up to her missteps on Tuesday and said she was working to hold herself to a higher standard of conduct.

Porter, a former Democratic congresswoman, has been the early front-runner in next year's race for California governor. But the videos cracked open a new phase by spurring opponents to go on the attack and intensifying the feeling among some Democrats that the party needed to find another candidate to be its standard-bearer.

On Tuesday, Porter was interviewed for the television show "Inside California Politics," and she later appeared on a Zoom call organized by the Working Families Party, a progressive group

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