evidence: This line comes as she recounts a major regret: going public about the details of her failed marriage, in a strategy to prevent opponents from using that messy part of her life against her. In 2013, her then-husband was arrested and jailed for (but never charged with) domestic battery after, as Porter later wrote in her book, he punched a wall next to where she was standing. (I tried to reach him via two publicly available phone numbers, with no success.) During the 2018 Democratic primary, Porter detected a whisper campaign that the troubling behavior had gone both ways — because after she filed for a restraining order against him, he responded by requesting his own against her. She tried to stamp out the insinuations by sharing court and police records with HuffPost. (HuffPost also couldn’t reach the ex-husband.)