{"id":264363,"date":"2026-04-12T19:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T19:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/264363\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T19:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T19:31:07","slug":"move-to-expel-democrat-eric-swalwell-from-congress-gains-steam-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/264363\/","title":{"rendered":"Move to expel Democrat Eric Swalwell from Congress gains steam | California"},"content":{"rendered":"

A growing number of Congress members from both parties have called for Eric Swalwell, a Democratic US representative and candidate for California<\/a> governor, to resign his seat this weekend, following reported allegations of inappropriate behavior, sexual assault and rape.<\/p>\n

Swalwell has denied the allegations, but he may not get the chance to quit before his colleagues expel him. Polarized Congress members appear to be eyeing an opportunity to rid themselves of both Swalwell and disgraced Republican US representative Tony Gonzales of Texas, who acknowledged having an extramarital affair<\/a> with a staffer who later died by suicide.<\/p>\n

Anna Paulina Luna, a Republican US representative from Florida, announced<\/a> on Sunday that she intends to pair her resolution to expel Swalwell with one to expel Gonzales.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe should step aside,\u201d US representative Ro Khanna, a California Democrat, told Fox News<\/a> of Swalwell. \u201cWhat he did is sick and disgusting. There need to be consequences to that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked whether he would vote to expel Swalwell, Khanna indicated he was open to the idea if it were coupled with purging a similarly abhorrent Republican.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that he should resign and I believe that there are other members, and Republican members, who should resign as well,\u201d Khanna said. \u201cIt depends on if it\u2019s worded in a fair way. But this shouldn\u2019t be about politics \u2013 anyone who abuses young girls and staffers should not be in the United States\u2019 Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n

Byron Donalds, a Florida Republican US representative, told NBC News<\/a> that he would vote to expel both Swalwell and Gonzales.<\/p>\n

\u200b\u200b\u201cThese allegations are despicable and they demean the integrity of Congress. These things are just completely unacceptable. As far as I\u2019m concerned, both gentlemen need to go home,\u201d Donalds said.<\/p>\n

Pramila Jayapal, a Washington Democratic US representative, described Swalwell\u2019s alleged behavior to NBC as part of a wider problem of powerful men abusing women that she called \u201ca depravity\u201d that \u201ccuts across party lines\u201d and is \u201cclearly a pattern\u201d. Asked whether she would vote to expel him, Jayapal said: \u201cAnd congressman Gonzales \u2013 I would.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other members of Congress, including US representatives Eugene Vindman<\/a> of Virginia and Jared Huffman<\/a> of California, have called on Swalwell both to resign his seat in the House of Representatives and end his run for California governor.<\/p>\n

At least four women have accused Swalwell of unwanted advances or sexual assault in a pair of reports published Friday by the San Francisco Chronicle and CNN. A former staffer said that Swalwell raped her in 2024 while she<\/a> was too intoxicated to consent to sex. The Manhattan district attorney\u2019s office has opened an investigation into that allegation.<\/p>\n

Swalwell said the allegations were \u201cflat false\u201d<\/a> in a video, in which he also apologized to his wife for \u201cmistakes in judgment\u201d that he described as a private matter between them. Swalwell\u2019s attorney has threatened to sue one of his accusers, according to the San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A growing number of Congress members from both parties have called for Eric Swalwell, a Democratic US representative…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-264363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}