{"id":49061,"date":"2026-04-13T01:19:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T01:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=49061"},"modified":"2026-04-13T01:19:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T01:19:02","slug":"swalwell-halts-governor-bid-as-pressure-builds-over-mounting-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=49061","title":{"rendered":"Swalwell halts governor bid as pressure builds over mounting allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1200\/675\/swalwell-on-television-1.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"beyondwords-wrapper\" class=\"beyondwords-wrapper\">\n<p><span class=\"label-bg\">NEW<\/span>You can now listen to Fox News articles!\n  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/eric-swalwell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eric Swalwell <\/a>said he is suspending his campaign for California governor, citing personal issues and ongoing allegations in a statement posted on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;I am suspending my campaign for Governor,&#8221; Swalwell wrote. &#8220;To my family, staff, friends, and supporters, I am deeply sorry for mistakes in judgment I\u2019ve made in my past.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/house-republican-plans-motion-oust-swalwell-congress-amid-sexual-assault-allegations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>HOUSE REPUBLICAN PLANS MOTION TO OUST SWALWELL FROM CONGRESS AMID SEXUAL ASSAULT ALLEGATIONS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will fight the serious, false allegations that have been made \u2014 but that\u2019s my fight, not a campaign\u2019s,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.onelink.me\/xLDS?pid=AppArticleLink&amp;af_dp=foxnewsaf%3A%2F%2F&amp;af_web_dp=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fapps-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The decision comes as pressure mounted over sexual assault allegations, with lawmakers from both parties calling on him to drop out of the race and resign from Congress.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-bio\">\n<p>Greg Wehner is a breaking news reporter for Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n<p>Story tips and ideas can be sent to Greg.Wehner@Fox.com and on Twitter @GregWehner.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/eric-swalwell-exits-california-governor-race-apologizing-past-judgment-while-denying-claims\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Rep. Eric Swalwell said he is suspending his campaign for California governor, citing personal issues and ongoing allegations&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}