{"id":264804,"date":"2026-04-13T01:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T01:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/264804\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T01:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T01:41:09","slug":"rep-swalwell-drops-out-of-california-governor-race-amid-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/264804\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Swalwell drops out of California governor race amid allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Eric Swalwell is dropping out of the race for California governor.<\/p>\n<p>He suspended his campaign Sunday after four women accused him of sexual misconduct. The allegations range from unwanted touching to rape.<\/p>\n<p>Swalwell denies the most serious claims but apologized for past mistakes in judgment. Several key allies and staff members have already abandoned his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple Democratic lawmakers are now calling for Swalwell to resign from Congress. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries says he will address the issue later this week.<\/p>\n<p>This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>Stay in Touch with Us Anytime, Anywhere:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rep. Eric Swalwell is dropping out of the race for California governor. He suspended his campaign Sunday after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,24115,20906],"class_list":["post-264804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-eric-swalwell","tag-governors-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264804","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=264804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}