{"id":49169,"date":"2026-04-13T04:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=49169"},"modified":"2026-04-13T04:05:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T04:05:00","slug":"rep-swalwell-suspends-gubernatorial-campaign-sorry-for-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=49169","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Swalwell Suspends Gubernatorial Campaign: &#8216;Sorry for Mistakes&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) announced that he is suspending his campaign to be the next governor of California, days after he was accused of sexual assault by several women.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X, Swalwell <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ericswalwell\/status\/2043488502327972096\">expressed<\/a> that he was \u201cdeeply sorry for mistakes in judgment\u201d that he had made, while adding that he would \u201cfight the serious, false allegations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am suspending my campaign for Governor,\u201d Swalwell said. \u201cTo my family, staff, friends, and supporters, I am deeply sorry for mistakes in judgment I\u2019ve made in my past.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will fight the serious, false allegations that have been made\u00a0\u2014 but that\u2019s my fight, not a campaign\u2019s,\u201d Swalwell continued.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#2043488502327972096\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ericswalwell\/status\/2043488502327972096\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Swalwell\u2019s announcement came after a former staffer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/politics\/article\/eric-swalwell-allegations-22198271.php?utm_campaign=CMS%20Sharing%20Tools%20(Premium)&amp;utm_source=t.co&amp;utm_medium=referral\">told<\/a> the <em>San Francisco Chronicle<\/em> that the Democratic congressman had allegedly sexually assaulted her on different occasions, once in 2019 and again in 2024, and that he had made attempts to \u201ckiss her\u201d while she worked for him:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>She said Swalwell, who is married and 17 years her senior at age 45, tried to kiss her in her car when she drove him home from a donor meeting one night. Driving him to another event weeks later, she said Swalwell pulled out his penis in the car and asked her to perform oral sex on him. She said she did so in a parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2019, the woman said, Swalwell invited her out for drinks and she became so severely intoxicated that she does not remember the rest of the night. She said she woke up naked in Swalwell\u2019s hotel bed and could feel the effect of vaginal intercourse. She said Swalwell distanced himself from her afterward and the relationship faded.<\/p>\n<p>Five years later, the woman said, she attended an April 2024 charity gala where Swalwell was honored. The woman, who no longer worked for Swalwell, said they met for drinks afterward, during which she became so inebriated that she remembers only snippets of the night, including pushing Swalwell away and telling him, \u201cNo,\u201d while he allegedly forced himself on her.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The former staffer also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/04\/10\/us\/eric-swalwell-sexual-misconduct-allegations-invs\">told<\/a> CNN about both instances in which Swalwell had allegedly sexually assaulted her. \u201cThree other women\u201d also accused Swalwell of \u201calleged various kinds of sexual misconduct.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"\/>\n<p>In response to the sexual assault allegations, several Democrats, such as Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), and Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2026\/04\/10\/sens-schiff-gallego-withdraw-support-for-swalwell-over-sexual-assault-allegations\/\">withdrew<\/a> their endorsements of Swalwell\u2019s gubernatorial campaign. House Democrat leadership, such as House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), also called for Swalwell to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2026\/04\/10\/house-democrat-leaders-call-for-swalwell-to-end-california-gubernatorial-campaign-over-sexual-assault-allegations\/\">end<\/a> his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Several staffers working in Swalwell\u2019s office, and on his gubernatorial campaign, also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2026\/04\/11\/rrep-swalwells-congressional-gubernatorial-campaign-staffers-horrified-over-sexual-assault-allegations\/\">issued<\/a> a letter that they were \u201chorrified\u201d by the sexual assault allegations. The staffers added that they \u201cstand with\u201d their former colleague, along with \u201cthe other women who have come forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2026\/04\/12\/swalwell-suspends-gubernatorial-campaign-accused-sexual-assault\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) announced that he is suspending his campaign to be the next governor of California, days after he was accused of sexual assault&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49169","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=49169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}