It seems that Swalwell won’t become the next governor of California
Accusers are coming out of the woodworks and staff are resigning from his campaign; see this and this.
From the former:
Rep. Eric Swalwell’s campaign for governor was reeling Friday after two news reports detailed accusations of sexual assault and misconduct, with multiple staffers resigning and both prominent allies and rival candidates calling on the California Democrat to exit the race.
The exodus, which began just before the San Francisco Chronicle published a report detailing a former staffer’s claims, jolted California’s marquee race just weeks before ballots start landing in voters’ mailboxes. The former staffer told the newspaper that Swalwell had sexual encounters with her while working for him, and that he sexually assaulted her twice when she was too drunk to consent.
Hours later, CNN reported on that ex-staffer and three additional women who accused Swalwell of making sexual advances and sending explicit photos and messages. And POLITICO reported that a former Swalwell employee had signed an agreement over an employment discrimination claim that included confidentiality and non-disparagement clauses, despite his campaign saying no one on his staff signed an NDA during his tenure.
It’s hard to believe that this information just came out all at once, organically. It’s easier to believe it was revealed now because someone or some group wanted Swalwell out of the race, perhaps because too many Democrat candidates versus GOP candidates threaten to split the vote. Can’t have a Republican governor of California, right?
How many of the accusations are true? If the staffers have the suggestive emails, that would certainly constitute evidence:
Multiple Democrats running for governor called on Swalwell both to exit the race and to resign from Congress — including former Rep. Katie Porter and billionaire Tom Steyer, who have consistently been the top-polling Democrats along with Swalwell and could benefit from his departure.
Such a surprise.
Katie Porter has this history:
In January 2023, Politico reported on criticism that Porter was “allegedly a terrible—according to some accounts, abusive and racist—boss.”
The Washington Post interviewed eight former employees on condition of anonymity about their experiences working for Porter. The staffers described her as domineering and recounted multiple examples of her mistreatment of staffers, including instances where she berated staffers until they cried. In response to the allegations that she created a toxic workplace, Porter defended herself on The View in April 2023 by comparing herself to women of color who are discriminated against.
In October 2025, a video of an online interview from July 2021 between then-Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and Porter resurfaced. In the background, one of Porter’s employees appeared and Porter shouted “Get out of my fucking shot!”. After the video resurfaced, Porter stated that “what I did to the staffer was wrong.” She also claimed that she apologized to the staffer and thanked her for the correction.
And then there’s Steyer, who doesn’t seem to have a lot of skeletons in his closet of the personal variety – not that I’ve done all that much sleuthing. This is interesting, though, about his failed 2020 presidential run (yeah, I didn’t really remember it either):
Steyer spent over $253 million on his 2020 presidential campaign. Nearly $250 million of that sum consisted of his personal funds.
But getting back to Swalwell, it’s interesting that his relationship with a suspected Chinese spy named Fang Fang wasn’t quite enough to sink him – or are the things related? Was more information about that due to come out?:
Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., is threatening legal action against the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as it reportedly considers releasing potentially damaging files just weeks before he faces voters in California’s wide-open gubernatorial race.
Lawyers for Swalwell sent a cease-and-desist letter to FBI Director Kash Patel, warning the bureau would violate federal privacy law if it moves ahead with releasing records regarding the congressman’s decade-old relationship with a suspected Chinese spy named Christine “Fang Fang” Fang.
It seems to me that the Democrats just generally thought Swalwell’s baggage was getting too heavy, and they didn’t want him to become the candidate and have all this stuff come out later. So he’s under that great big bus, or almost certainly will be there shortly. Will he keep his Congressional seat? There’s a motion to expel him, but it was filed by GOP member Luna.
[NOTE: I must admit I find this topic tedious at this point. Corruption, corruption, trying to separate truth from fiction, all the while assuming California is a lost state swimming in fraud and leftism.
Plus, have you noticed that more and more sites make you wait while they verify you’re not a bot? My old computer is so slow it becomes annoying.
Plus, I keep misspelling “Swalwell” as “Stalwell.” Stallwell? Stalewell?]
I wonder if either Porter or Steyer could be behind these revelations, which have evidently been open secrets for a while — that is, people knew Swalwell had this kind of trouble; or maybe the CA Democrat party, hoping that removing one higher-polling candidate might swing votes to one of the other two and get some Democrat, any Democrat, into the general election.
@neo: It’s hard to believe that this information just came out all at once, organically. It’s easier to believe it was revealed now because someone or some group wanted Swalwell out of the race, perhaps because too many Democrat candidates versus GOP candidates threaten to split the vote.
Count me in!
Democrats rig their own elections too.
Oh, I remember Steyer’s presidential run. Though it wasn’t that distinctive.
Swalwell reminds me of John Edwards. Exceptionally sleezy and opportunistic lawyer/politicians. Attractive smooth talkers who not only believe, but actually succeed in talking, bluffing, and lying their way through various sorts of career advancement. And they were/are both practiced womanizers? It would be a typical character trait.
“all the while assuming California is a lost state swimming in fraud and leftism.”
ReformCalifornia.org, run by activist Carl Demaio, does not accept that and is making some progress. They have gotten pretty good at gathering signatures to qualify initiatives on the ballot. They will have a voter ID and an initiative to protect California proposition 13 on the November ballot. They have a good chance of passing since California voters seem to be more conservative on these initiatives than in selecting candidates.
They also have a strategy of focusing on winnable down ballot races to achieve smaller goals, such as eliminating the democrats’ super majority in the legislature.
As the saying goes, it is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. I’ve seen that saying attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, but others say somebody else.
Bob Wilson:
I salute their efforts.
Not if Democrats can dictate the outcome.
In re Steyer, the Democrats had a fairly deep bench in 2020. They had four men who had founded lucrative businesses (Bloomberg, Yang, Delaney, Steyer), two men experienced as public and private sector executives (Bloomberg, Hickenlooper), and a state governor with a history of appealing to a red state electorate (Bullock). Their voters took a glance at Bloomberg and ignored the rest entirely. Their principal candidates were Biden, Sanders, Warren, Buttigieg, and Klobuchar. Buttigieg worked for McKinsey for a time and Klobuchar put in some time as a corporate lawyer. That’s as close as any of these came to a career in business. Warren managed to get tenure (with the aid of affirmative action fraud), but otherwise its difficult to discern any discrete accomplishment in the lives of these five; accomplishment is not something in which Democratic voters take an interest. They eventually nominated the grossest of the bunch.
I wonder if either Porter or Steyer could be behind these revelations
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Ace of Spades HQ has identified an ‘influencer’ in Porter’s circle as the one pushing these allegations. It’s a reasonable wager they’ve had them in reserve for some time.
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What’s amazing is that the Democrats prosper with such viscerally unpleasant creatures. It’s as if their voters admire that.
The ace in the hole for California’s Democrats is they passed same day registration and voting, and ballot harvesting.
Reading how fast Democrats tossed Eric Swalwell under the Cesar Chavez bus has been highly entertaining.
Swalwell is scum that should never have risen as far as he has.
TommyJay on April 11, 2026 at 4:37 pm:
“Oh, I remember Steyer’s presidential run. Though it wasn’t that distinctive.”
I barely remember him, and perhaps I am mostly reminded by Art Deco’s past commentary.
But how can someone spend $250M on a campaign and have had so little impact on constituent awareness of his presence let alone his policy positions? Especially a presumably seasoned and successful businessman? Seems some folks were egregiously incompetent in helping to run that campaign (which reflects back on him for hiring them?) And money can’t buy charisma – see Ron DeSantis?
If I remember correctly, Romney spent $60M of his own money, Bloomberg spent $100M, and Jeb Bush spent $100M of other people’s money, but at least we have some recollection of them.
Yes very likely the fix is in to reduce the Dem field in order to keep Republicans off the ballot. Nevertheless it couldn’t happen to a more deserving guy. Even for a Democrat Swalwell is an exceptionally sleazy repulsive asshole.
The Dem’s problem is that none of the next ones in line is particularly attractive to the electorate. Katie Porter? Steyer, the nonentity? Xavier Becerra?
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Unlike the GOP the Dems are pretty hard on sex offender so
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I keep looking at John’s pathetic comment at 10:02 a.m. Dems cover for sex offenders until or unless they become a liability, and even then sometimes they still defend them.
Kate, if John seriously was trying to defend Democrats and not just being ironic someone needs to remind him that two of the Dems’ biggest heroes the last fifty years have been Splash Kennedy and BJ Clinton.
“Unlike the GOP the Dems are pretty hard on sex offender so”…
…that’s why the Democrats are PERFECTLY FINE with Sleazewell holding on to his Congressional seat.
(Makes sense to me…)
For 13 years dems said nothing about Swalwell. But now that he’s a political liability they rushed to get him out.
On the whole in general, democrats aren’t worth a shit!
He should have been kicked out of congress because of being a sexual predator.
That’s probably how the Chinese targeted him with the honey pot.
Harsh butVERY true…Another angle:
“THIS IS THE MORAL STRUCTURE OF [SLEAZEWELL’s] PARTY:”—
https://instapundit.com/789263/
Key “curiosity”:
Actually, I’d add to that impressive hit his sinister (and dishonest) assaults on the various January 6th victims of “Biden”’s (and Pelosi’s) thugs, of which Sleazewell was a demented chieftain.
+ Bonus!
(Hillary Clinton launches the “D” word…)
Oops.
Here’s that bonus link:
https://instapundit.com/789364/