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Congressman Eric Swalwell officially suspending his campaign for governor.

He wrote on X to my family, staff, friends, and supporters.

I am deeply sorry for the 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. Again, it was Friday when CNN and the San Francisco Chronicle both reported on these allegations.

A lot has been said about me today through anonymous allegations.

I thought it was important that you see and hear from me directly.

These allegations of sexual assault are flat, false. They're absolutely false.

They did not happen. They have never happened. And I will fight them with everything that I have.

They also come on the eve of an election where I have been the front-winter candidate for governor

and California. The truth's going to come out.

And I hope everything you've done so far as clean, because if it's not, there's going to be a reckoning for that as far as public accountability that's going to come.

What are the chances that three or four women independently who never met each other

would have similar experiences with one person?

So either, Ari, this person committed these

horrific acts or he is the single unluckiest person in the world for these people to

conspire and make up lies against him. But it's a very hard case to make the more allegations

that come in.

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