Eric Swalwell Running For Governor
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Democrat Rep Eric Swalwell is running for Governor of California.
He announced it before going on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Rep. Eric Swalwell, an outspoken Donald Trump antagonist, is running for California governor, adding one more Democratic hopeful to the jam-packed field.
The seven-term member of Congress, who represents the San Francisco Bay Area, said on his website he “is running for Governor with fresh ideas and tremendous heart” before appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Thursday night.
“I’m running for Governor because prices are too high and people are scared,” he wrote.
A Swalwell candidacy was on nobody’s radar just a few months ago. His decision to enter the race late in the year — when other candidates have had as much as a year’s head start — is the latest sign of an unsettled Democratic field in the race to succeed Gavin Newsom, with no decisive frontrunner.
Swalwell said one of his two objectives was to “keep Trump out of our homes, streets and lives.”
Swalwell told the San Francisco Chronicle ahead of his announcement that the next governor of the Golden State should have two objectives.
“One, keep Trump out of our homes, streets and lives,” he said, adding that the second is to “write the story of a new California on lower prices, on business growth and modernizing the state.”
Swalwell was a frequent pusher of the Russia collusion hoax.
The Durham report contradicted claims Eric Swalwell made publicly accusing Trump of collusion.
Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., consistently claimed there was strong evidence of collusion between Russia and former President Donald Trump, but those statements were contradicted by the release of Special Counsel John Durham’s report on the Trump investigation.
“In our investigation, we saw strong evidence of collusion – the Republicans now are choosing to bury it,” Swalwell told CNN in March 2018, eventually clarifying that he believed there is “clear collusion.”
Durham’s report on his investigation, released this month, showed otherwise, as it concluded intelligence agencies had no “actual evidence of collusion” to justify their launch of the Trump-Russia investigation. These findings added to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report in 2019 that concluded there was no evidence the Trump campaign engaged in a criminal plot to collude with the Russians to influence the 2016 election.
