Sexual assault allegations against Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell have detonated his campaign for California governor, triggering an hours-long collapse that caused even his most powerful supporters to abandon him en masse.
On 10 April 2026, the San Francisco Chronicle published a bombshell account from an unnamed former staffer alleging that Swalwell sexually assaulted her twice while she was intoxicated, once in 2019 during her tenure in his congressional district office, and again in April 2024, after she had left his employ.
