Rep. Eric Swalwell, a Democrat who served as a House manager in President Donald Trump\u2019s 2021 impeachment trial, has launched his bid for California governor.<\/p>\n
Swalwell highlighted his desire to help Californians prosper as he announced his candidacy on ABC\u2019s \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur state, this great state, needs a fighter and a protector,\u201d Swalwell said. \u201cSomeone who will bring prices down, lift wages up.\u201d <\/p>\n
He also touched on his clashes with Trump, saying he was ready \u201cto bring this fight home.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOur state is under attack,\u201d Swalwell said in a statement on his campaign website. Trump \u201chas militarized our streets, canceled cancer research, zeroed out clean energy climate projects, and is chasing our immigrant friends and neighbors through their workplaces, kids\u2019 schools, and houses of worship.\u201d<\/p>\n
Swalwell\u2019s announcement on Kimmel\u2019s late-night show came after renewed attacks from Trump on ABC and Kimmel this week. The network temporarily suspended the comic in September for remarks made following the assassination of GOP activist Charlie Kirk. ABC lifted the suspension following a public outcry. On Thursday, the president urged ABC to \u201cget the bum off the air\u201d<\/a> in a social media post.<\/p>\n Swalwell represents a northern California district where he was first elected in 2012. He was a candidate in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries before dropping out and endorsing Joe Biden. <\/p>\n More than a half dozen Democrats and two Republicans are competing in an all-party June primary, with the top two vote-getters advancing to a November general election to succeed term-limited Gov. Gavin Newsom. Other Democratic candidates include billionaire businessman and activist Tom Steyer<\/a>, former Rep. Katie Porter<\/a>, former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and former U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rep. Eric Swalwell, a Democrat who served as a House manager in President Donald Trump\u2019s 2021 impeachment trial,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,37811,92678,2356,49204,12,1070,112898,2013,793,3138,41360,3319,37813,2221,152186,3,111,157081,8638,795,3438,21,19,22,20,25,24,37812],"class_list":["post-305316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-antonio-villaraigosa","tag-assassination-of-charlie-kirk","tag-california","tag-charlie-kirk","tag-donald-trump","tag-elections","tag-eric-swalwell","tag-gavin-newsom","tag-general-news","tag-government-and-politics","tag-impeachment","tag-joe-biden","tag-katie-porter","tag-legal-proceedings","tag-local-news-for-apple","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-tom-steyer","tag-u-s-democratic-party","tag-u-s-news","tag-u-s-republican-party","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-xavier-becerra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}