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Posted on 04/12/2026 3:02:29 PM PDT by Libloather
Rep. Eric Swalwell’s political career is collapsing at a shocking speed.
Within 24 hours, the Bay Area congressman went from Democratic frontrunner for California governor to facing pressure to not only end his campaign but resign from Congress — while now being the subject of a criminal sexual assault investigation into allegations by a former staffer she was raped while drunk at an April 2024 charity gala.
Three other women have made claims about sexual misconduct ranging from inappropriate messages or unwanted contact. The women have claimed they have documented visits to the hospital and contemporaneous messages with friends and family about the incidents.
One staffer has also claimed she woke up naked next to him in a hotel room in 2019 after a heavy night of drinking and didn’t remember what happened but felt physically like they’d had sex.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office launched a criminal probe into the woman’s rape claim.
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Swalwell has furiously denied the allegations of rape and sexual assault, but he did admit to indiscretions in a social media post Friday evening, saying he would be spending time away from the campaign with family and friends.
However, The Post confirmed that rather than being at home, Swalwell was holed up in the $26 million Beverly Hills mansion of his eccentric billionaire benefactor, Stephen Cloobeck.
Multiple sources confirmed that the video Swalwell recorded was taken from a room inside the 9,700-square-foot home of Cloobeck, who’s also been shacking up with an alleged honeytrapper accused of burglarizing the home of rich, older men in Los Angeles.
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Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
When the shoe is on the other foot.
When the money and power runs out, so does the wife. It’s the democrat way.
Justice Kavanaugh has to be having a chuckle over this.
What are you talking about? Newscum is not running for Gov, he’s term limited out. Doesn’t everyone know that?
Bay Area Congressman. What’s his Bay Area address?
Sounds like Bill Cosby predator stuff without the spiked drinks.
“One staffer has also claimed she woke up naked next to him in a hotel room in 2019 after a heavy night of drinking and didn’t remember what happened but felt physically like they’d had sex.” Eric has a way with the ladies.
Back to the drawing board, please. Swallwell is running for the job Newsom is vacating. The reason why the rats are going at him so hard is that he has failed to pull into the no. 2 spot in the polls for the upcoming jungle primary. They’re hoping to completely obliterate his vote so someone else, perhaps Steyer or Porter, will get enough of his support to capture that no. 2 spot
well, i guess if one has to cower, a $26 million mansion isn’t a bad place to do it ...
My take.
It was Harris against Loretta Sanchez for Senator, and Harris had the statewide recognition from being Attorney General that Sanchez couldn't overcome. It's possible that everyone has that problem in the governor's race in that nobody currently holds statewide office giving them statewide recognition.
My take:
Steyer: he will be seen as a fringe billionaire. A Pritzker or a Trump, but not a George Soros billionaire. More like a Romney billionaire than anything else. I don't think he's going to rise too much higher.
Porter: She's embracing the Democrat left-wing politics. She recently tried to turn her expletive rants into a campaign device piggybacking on the recent Democrat trend of making "viral" videos of them cursing out Trump. She's the one that the party will flock to because her floor is the California voter who votes for anything with a (D) next to their name.
Bianco: Unknown to me. If he was a Riverside sheriff for 30 years, I never heard of him and I lived in Swalwell's district for 30 years before leaving California 10 years ago. His name never reached my ears in the decades that I lived in the East Bay. I would assume the same to be true of other Republican voters.
Hilton: He has the broadest appeal to Republicans in California because of his Fox News exposure. He's also attracting the independents who are tired of the Newsom/Bass/Pelosi/Harris/Feinstein/Boxer/Schiff legacy that Californians have been stuck with. I'm thinking that they will see Hilton as a viable alternative agent for change, moreso than Bianco.
That's why I'm not as wedded to the notion that Hilton and Bianco need each other to be tied in order to elevate both. I think Porter has a real chance of passing them with Swalwell's dedicated base and Steyer's position as a ceiling due to voter apathy.
I think the bandwagon effect is real, and that everyone loves a winner and wants to be on the side of the winner. I think if Porter surges past Bianco, and even passes Hilton, then Bianco must drop out and support Hilton to send a message to independents that voting for Hilton is not a wasted vote. If both Hilton and Bianco are splitting the vote, the independents will stay home -- they need the bandwagon to give them confidence to leave the Democrats.
I think that too many times, the Republicans let their ego and pride blind them to the realpolitik of the situation. I'm starting to see Bianco as California's version of Wesley Hunt from Texas. Hunt may have had a principled reason for running, but he had no real shot of winning the Senate primary - yet he resisted calls to drop out. If Hunt had dropped out, Paxton would have beaten Cornyn and we wouldn't be going into a runoff.
Bianco is in the same position. I'm sure he feels confident that he has a shot at winning, but that's usually what happens when his advisors and consultants urge their candidate stay in the race. They appeal to his ego, that he's great, that he's the best candidate for the state, all while hoping to keep the campaign gig that pays well going for as long as possible.
But it still comes down to Bianco not having the statewide presence that he will need to break out, and Hilton has it. And Hilton has "it" too.
I think Hilton will draw the independents that Bianco can't, and between Hilton's base, Bianco's base, and the independents they can convince to join, Hilton will beat Porter in the end.
Besides, Porter is just not that attractive a candidate, and some people will be turned off to her by simply saying that they can't stand having to listen to her for four years. It's crude, but she's crude, too, and that will turn off voters.
-PJ
“Let’s see if wife stays with the rapist”
She seems to have some significant education and accomplishments to the point of not needing the scumbag for incidentals. But no doubt she is an AWFUL and decision making is probably lacking at best.
“Well, I guess if one has to cower, a $26 million mansion isn’t a bad place to do it ...”
Probably the only time he has spent in California this year. California Congressman and resident.....SPIT.
Another quote “Michael Trujillo, a Democratic political strategist based in Los Angeles, told The Post he had heard of improper relationships between Swalwell and staff as far back as 2017”
He was screwing his staffers all during the Russia collusion hoax and impeachment, when he was a prominent voice. What a scumbag
I was reading another article about this, and people were commenting that he was in a hotel. Oops.
He’ll fight to stay in Congress. If he can’t be governor how else would he get money and chicks
The Dems definitely calculated it was time to throw him under the bus because they have known for a long time that he is a scoundrel. They always circle the wagon for whatever the crime, unless they have a bigger picture reason to do otherwise. They made the calculations, and was time for Swalwell to go bye bye.
Don't let 'em push you around!
Just reported that he’s dropped out of Governor’s race.
Exactly.
Swalwell needs to stand strong and stay in the race!
An added bonus with two Republicans on the top of the ticket will be deflated Dem turnout for the down-ballot races. Winning 48 of CA's 52 congressional seats is crucial for the Dems to take back the House.
Too many of these California Dem voters stay home because a Republican is going to win the governorship no matter what and it becomes a much taller order flipping the House.
Never mind.
He just dropped out.
Damn...
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