Posted on 04/13/2026 5:09:40 AM PDT by V_TWIN
Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell on Sunday evening dropped out of the California Governor’s race amid allegations of sexual assault.
Swalwell apologized to his family, staffers, and supporters and vowed to fight the “false allegations” against him.
Statement from Swalwell:
I am suspending my campaign for Governor.
To my family, staff, friends, and supporters, I am deeply sorry for mistakes in judgment I’ve made in my past.
I will fight the serious, false allegations that have been made — but that’s my fight, not a campaign’s.
Meanwhile, the Manhattan District Attorney has launched an investigation into Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell over serious allegations of sexual assault.
The San Francisco Chronicle on Friday published a story about a woman who claimed that Democrat Eric Swalwell sexually assaulted her twice.
The woman, who worked as a staffer in Swalwell’s office for two years, told The San Francisco Chronicle that Swalwell began pursuing her just weeks after she was hired at the age of 21 in 2019.
After the San Francisco Chronicle dropped its bombshell report on Swalwell, three additional women spoke to CNN and provided evidence about alleged additional misconduct by the California Democrat.
The Swalwell staffer said she was sexually assaulted by Swalwell in 2019
The staffer also said Swalwell raped her years later in 2024 after she left his employment.
The unidentified former female staffer sat down with CNN and recounted some of the horrific details about the alleged rape that occurred in 2024.
“I went to the bathroom, and I don’t remember anything after that,” she said, adding that she “remembered the next day.”
“I can see flashes of that evening of him on top of me, me pushing him off, him grabbing me. It was a lot more aggressive. It was aggressive,” she said about the 2024 assault.
“He didn’t stop. He didn’t stop. I woke up the next morning naked, alone in his hotel. I, for a moment, didn’t even know that I was in his hotel room. That’s how intoxicated I was,” she said.
CNN said they corroborated the woman’s claims by speaking with friends and family that she confided in. CNN also reviewed photos and screenshots of contemporaneous text messages. The outlet reviewed a message from her medical provider the week after she received the pregnancy and STD test calling her a “survivor.”
More than 50 former Swalwell staffers on Sunday demanded the California Democrat resign from Congress.
The marx-o-crats needed to thin the field for another newscum clone to win.
What a lowlife scumbag.
He says he wants to spend more time at the gym.
YES. CONgre$$ has a much higher percentage of them than the general population.
A hole had no choice
If they force him to resign from Congress, a Democrat will win the special election—and they might actually get a Representative who lives in the district.
Would have been better if he had stayed on until September. They must have offered gold or lead.
Is Swalwell eating chicken tacos in honor of his pulling out of the race?
RAPE. And he won’t spend a day in jail. Prove me wrong.
Silver…
SACO?
I agree, but still believe the accusations are true.
Statute of limitations
dim-0s booted him, not because he is a scumbag but because he was CAUGHT!
His suspension should by the neck.
Exactly. They don't give a damn about the women he victimized. Their phony outrage allows them to say they forced him out of the governor's race, but they will fight tooth and nail to keep him in the House. The talking point will be: "He's been punished. We made him drop his bid for the governorship. Now it's time to move on and continue fighting for the American people."
The Dems wanted him out, he’s out. A GOP Governor in CA will reek havoc on their plans.
The most outrageous part of him dropping out is that none of this was new information. The Dems and media knew it. It came out because it looked like the California governor’s race was going to be a runoff between two Republicans. So all the sudden the allegations and accusations become public and the media makes them headline news. If he was a Republican, they would have become public AFTER he was nominated to ensure a Dem victory. Now the deck is cleared for loathsome Katie Porter to become one of the runoff candidates. She is toxic and hopefully enough Californians find her repugnant enough to vote against her.
Democrats always have an angle and agenda for everything they do.
Only one thing you can depend on them for......it’s never about the welfare of the country and it’s people....NEVER
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