California is having a Governor’s race, and somehow Representative Eric Swalwell is polling as the most popular Democrat. You may remember Swalwell from such previous hits as “we’ll nuke you damn gun owners,” “my 2020 presidential campaign was a pathetic joke,” “I slept with a Chinese spy” and “I don’t even live in this state” (among many others). After he became the top polling Democrat, suddenly sexual allegations against him start tumbling out like cartoon anvils out of an Acme closet. Daniel Greenfield:
Everyone by now has seen the claims that Rep. Eric Swalwell sexually harassed women and allegedly raped at least one of them.
Did he do it? I’m not going to pretend to be really surprised if he did it. Looking at a picture of Swalwell or watching him speak, he would probably be voted ‘Most Likely to Commit Drunken Rape’.
According to Steven Tavares of East Bay Insider, this was known all along…
I’ve covered Eric Swawell since he was a member of the Dublin City Council. Shortly after being elected to Congress in 2013, his behavior towards women was known by all levels of our local government and the Alameda County Democratic Party.
Good thing we were all told about it back in 2013 wasn’t it?
You would think that sexual assault allegations against a sitting U.S. congressmen would have engendered investigation from the press. But that assume the press is somehow separate from the Democratic Media Complex rather than a part of it.
But the alleged rape happened in 2024. It wasn’t reported and no one had a problem with Swalwell until he became the gubernatorial frontrunner in California. Some have pointed out that the allegations appear to have originated with political allies of former Rep. Katie Porter whose unlikability and unelectability run side by side, but who has a mean streak almost as wide as… well her.
There are two basic possibilities here.
1. Former Rep Porter’s allies are setting Swalwell up
2. Swalwell did it, but some of those same allies sat on this information until it was politically useful, creating a firestorm and manufacturing a demand for a female candidate. (Even though Porter is notorious for mistreating female staffers.)
As Greenfield points out, “When allegations emerge just in time to sideline a candidate, it doesn’t mean the party takes sexual harassment seriously. It means it covers up sexual harassment and even sexual assault until it’s politically useful.”
Here’s a Twitter/X user who makes the case that the allegations against Swalwell have been ginned up:
How ruthlessly effective is the Democrat machine?
Eric Swalwell is asked to drop out of the race because a Republicans may actually win.
He refuses.
Party operatives tap into their pool of white liberal feminists and just like that, he's hit with not one…not two, but FOUR…
— Pro-America | Politics & Markets (@Pro__Trading) April 11, 2026
How ruthlessly effective is the Democrat machine?
Eric Swalwell is asked to drop out of the race because a Republicans may actually win.
He refuses.
Party operatives tap into their pool of white liberal feminists and just like that, he’s hit with not one…not two, but FOUR sexual assault accusations.
Of course, none of the victims can remember any details, just that it happened. The exact Blasey-Ford and E. Jean Carrol playbook.
Within an hour, the victim is being interviewed on @CNN
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The email goes out.Almost immediately, the teacher’s union is condemning him and Schumer, Pelosi, Jeffries and every other Democrat on Twitter is calling for him to drop out of the race.
Keep in mind, when Tara Reade accused Biden of forcibly sexually abusing her, they called her a liar and nobody called for him to drop out.
This is all a coordinated attack because they’ve seen the internal polling that Steve Hilton may actually win this thing and they are sacrificing Swalwell because liberal idiots like him are a dime a dozen.
I suppose there’s a middle ground, where Swalwell (who’s been married to his second wife since 2016) did send out dick picks in addition to banging a foreign spy, but didn’t actually get all rapey.
A bigger question is why Democrat insiders have decided that Swalwell needs to drop out to help the chances of this woman:
Why not force Lumpy Gravy Batgirl to drop out instead? She’s already a one-time statewide race loser, have come in a distant 3rd behind Adam Schiff and Steve Garvey in the 2024 California senate race. Most polls have Porter running fifth in the race, behind Swalwell, Republicans Chad Bianco and Steve Hilton, and another 2020 Democrat presidential also-ran in Tom Steyer. But they can’t force Steyer to drop out, because he’s a billionaire.
Are those social justice intersectionality points just that much better for a white woman than a white man? Or do they think Porter will do a better job of keeping the welfare state fraud train running?
Update: And Swalwell’s out, but will allegedly still fight to “clear his name.” Somehow, I expect the accusations to magically go away without Smallwang having to resign his House seat…
Tags: 2026 Election, California, California Teacher's Association, Chad Bianco, Daniel Greenfield, Democrats, Elections, Eric Swalwell, Katie Porter, rape, sex offender, Social Justice Warriors, Steve Hilton, Steven Tavares, Tom Steyer, unions
Actually, it’s even worse than that.
California uses that relic of the Jim Crow era, the “jungle” primary (everyone in one big primary rather than separate party primaries, top two go on to the general – developed by earlier Democrats in the South to prevent Republicans from getting to the general, and to thus keep black votes meaningless).
Turns out that before this stuff broke, there has been a real chance that the two moving on to the general will both be Republicans – ensuring a Republican governor in California next year. Well, the “machine” can’t have that, so one of the donks had to go.
Also note that all the top donks are telling him he needs to drop out of the governor’s race… but not one of them is saying that he needs to resign from Congress. That probably confirms what’s going on here…
“How ruthlessly effective is the Democrat machine?
“Eric Swalwell is asked to drop out of the race because a Republicans may actually win.
“He refuses.”
…and just like that, he is found dead in Fort Marcy Park of a gunshot wound to the back of his head.
Amazing that commies like Swalwell don’t know the history of their movement.
As many have pointed out, he was forced out of the race because the Dems feared that their candidates in California’s jungle primary might get shut out of advancing to the general election in favor of the two strongest polling Republicans Hilton and Bianco.
That would make Potatohead Katie Porter their leading contender, even though she is hardly palatable in any sense of the word. Their situation is further complicated by the egos of their remaining candidates, all of whom are polling in single digits and unwilling to drop out.
But there’s one other wrinkle that they might not yet have considered. Swalwell will still remain on the ballot, and it could it not be possible for him to draw 5-6% as a protest vote from men sick and tired of “MeToo” bullshit? Remember that Trump gained among black men in 2024? Remember the tidal wave of support among black men for Clarence Thomas back in 1991 after “brave” Anita Hill came forward? If the Dem bosses catch on to that possibility, watch for them to try to disqualify him on residence or other grounds. With a compliant and feminized judiciary they just might succeed.
It’s gonna be a wild next seven weeks in California.
@Northern Redneck:
Background on the jungle primary. In California it was only adopted about 15 years ago as a “progressive” initiative. Before that they had a conventional closed primary with party registration. They still have party registration, although it no longer serves any purpose.
However, the only southern state with a jungle primary is Louisiana. Most of the others have no party registration, but have open primaries. In Texas and Georgia, for example you choose your party primary ballot and your choice is recorded, so which party you chose is public even if your candidate choices remain secret.
The southern open primary is a relic of the days when there were no Republicans, so it made no sense to have party registration anyway. Since there were no GOP candidates, it wasn’t necessary to shut them out.
I’m not the slightest bit surprised that a Dem got pushed out–they needed someone to drop out and nobody was willing to be the one, so they turned to a playbook they have turned to many times before.
But why Swalwell? Because he’s a white male? That was my best guess, but then why not one of the more marginal white males? If you’re right that Porter is behind this, that answers the question–it’s not so much that they needed someone to drop out as that Porter needed the guy ahead of her to drop out.
Future Porter opponents take note.
“Dirt”. Dirt on a politician has two uses.
1. Control. Make him (her) yours. His vote is yours. His voice is yours. You own him. All is good, as long as he does just as he is told.
2. If he doesn’t, or if he just becomes an unnecessary or unhelpful presence in the bigger picture, you can squelch him. Like the proverbial nasty little bug. At a time of your choice.
Swalwell has now discovered the second use of dirt.
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