Examining the Fallout From Eric Swalwell’s Sexual Misconduct Allegations
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🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:58.5 | Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. Voters and Eric Swalwell's former Bay Area Congressional District |
| 1:04.4 | are reacting to allegations of sexual abuse against him by a growing number of women. |
| 1:09.9 | Here's Melissa Estepa of Hayward. |
| 1:11.8 | He was someone I thought was a rising star, and I was looking forward to supporting him, |
| 1:15.9 | but it's just another man in power abusing women, so it's not surprising, but it's still very |
| 1:21.4 | disappointing. Swalwell, who has called the allegations false and politically motivated, |
| 1:26.9 | had been among the frontrunners |
| 1:28.1 | in California's governor's race before suspending his campaign over the weekend, then resigning |
| 1:33.4 | from Congress. Yesterday, after four women came forward alleging rape and unwanted touching |
| 1:39.0 | and sexual harassment, a fifth woman, Lana Drews, came forward alleging sexual assault. |
| 1:45.0 | We were supposed to go to a political event and he said he needed to get paperwork from his hotel room. |
| 1:51.0 | When I arrived at his hotel room, I was already incapacitated and I couldn't move my arms or my body. |
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