{"id":265454,"date":"2026-04-13T12:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T12:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/265454\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T12:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T12:04:08","slug":"eric-swalwell-suspends-campaign-for-california-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/265454\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Swalwell Suspends Campaign for California Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: Eric Swalwell Suspends Campaign for California Governor<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p>Back<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<p>Eric Swalwell Suspends Campaign for California GovernorIn a social media post, Representative Eric Swalwell announced that he was suspending his campaign for California governor after two news outlets published accusations of sexual assault and misconduct against him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">I do not suggest to you in any way that I\u2019m perfect or that I\u2019m a saint. I have certainly made mistakes in judgment in my past, but those mistakes are between me and my wife, and to her, I apologize deeply for putting her in this position. I also apologize to you if in any way you have doubted your support for me.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Eric Swalwell sitting at a desk during a House hearing and speaking.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/00nat-swalwell-quits-photo-cbkt-threeByTwoMediumAt2X-v2.jpg\" data-testid=\"betamax-poster\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"_poster_13tnt_20\"\/>In a social media post, Representative Eric Swalwell announced that he was suspending his campaign for California governor after two news outlets published accusations of sexual assault and misconduct against him.<\/p>\n<p>By Monika Cvorak<\/p>\n<p>April 13, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"new video loaded: Eric Swalwell Suspends Campaign for California Governor transcript Back transcript Eric Swalwell Suspends Campaign for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[116171,7,9,8,24115,4594,39562,13,7563,10977],"class_list":["post-265454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-appointments-and-executive-changes","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-eric-swalwell","tag-governors","tag-gubernatorial-races","tag-politics","tag-rape","tag-us-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265454","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=265454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}