Democratic congressman Eric Swalwell has bowed out of his bid for California governor after multiple women accused him of sexual assault.
“I am suspending my campaign for Governor,” Swalwell, 45, wrote in a post on X on Sunday night. “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," he concluded.
The allegations first came to light on Friday, after the San Francisco Chronicle published a former staffer’s claim of how the congressman had sexually assaulted her in a New York City hotel room in 2024.
The unnamed staff member, who said she worked for Swalwell from 2019 until 2021, told the local newspaper that she had been too inebriated to consent to the encounter, and that Swalwell did not listen when she tried to refuse his advances.
The Chronicle said it corroborated the former staffer’s story by analyzing medical records, reviewing text messages, and interviewing her boyfriend at the time.
Swalwell told the paper in a statement that her allegations were “false.”
A CNN report that followed soon after on Friday detailed how three more women also accused the California Democrat of sexual misconduct, in addition to the former staffer’s story.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said on Saturday that it had opened an investigation into the allegations of sexual assault against Swalwell.
Swalwell, who is...
Although on appeal the court distinguished that there was new information in the claim, the court ultimately found the new information was not material, nor was it plead with particularity. The U....