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Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) compared President Donald Trump to the late Taliban leader Osama bin Laden, saying they had both "radicalized" their supporters.
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Rep. Eric Swalwell compared President Trump's conduct during the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill raid to that of terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden.
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Continue readingA Second Democratic Candidate Has Dropped Out Of The Presidential Race
California Rep. Eric Swalwell announced at a press conference Monday that he is ending his short-lived bid for president and running for reelection to his House seat, becoming the second Democrat to drop out of the 2020 race, leaving the field at 23 ...
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Eric Swalwell is passing the torch… back to the olds. The California congressman, who argued that a younger generation politicians is needed to aggressively tackle issues like gun violence, the student debt crisis and “climate chaos,” became the first ...
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Eric Swalwell, el representante demócrata de California que aspiraba a ganar la nominación de su partido para las elecciones presidenciales de 2020, anunció este lunes que se retira de la contienda, reportó la cadena NBC. Se trata del primer candidato de ...
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DUBLIN, Calif. — California Rep. Eric Swalwell, dogged by fundraising challenges and a failure to register in the polls, is ending his longshot bid for the presidency. Two weeks ago, Swalwell, 38, called on Democratic front-runner Joe Biden to "pass the torch" ...
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Rep. Eric Swalwell dropped out of the 2020 presidential race Monday after struggling to break out in a jammed Democratic primary field. The four-term congressman from California will instead run for reelection to the House. He becomes the first presidential ...
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El precandidato demócrata Eric Swalwell se retira de la carrera presidencial. El representante por California anunció este lunes que se retira de la contienda, menos de dos semanas después del primer debate presidencial demócrata. Univision,. 8 Jul 2019 ...
Continue readingEric Swalwell ends presidential bid after failing to gain traction
... in Congress, with a new perspective shaped by the lives that have touched mine and our campaign throughout these last three months, to bring that promise of America to all Americans," Swalwell said, speaking at his campaign headquarters in California.
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Swalwell, from the Bay Area city of Dublin, has languished for months near the bottom of the polls. The 38-year-old congressman had sought to cast himself as the candidate of a younger generation but was eclipsed by Mayor Pete Buttigieg, 37, of South Bend ...
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Several candidates have called for a ban on assault weapons, but Mr. Swalwell's plan goes further. He calls for a mandatory nationwide buyback program for assault weapons and suggests that the government criminally prosecute anyone who refuses to ...
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"I'm going to tell the country that we are at our best when we move in one direction ... forward," Swalwell said. "That we in our past, whether it was Presidents Carter, Clinton, Obama or President Kennedy in the past, it was always a page forward. The American ...
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MIAMI – Eric Swalwell, a 38-year-old Democratic congressman, had a simple argument against his party's frontrunner: You're too old, Joe. Swalwell — one of the presidential hopefuls in the party's first round of debates — took a shot at the former vice ...
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Eric Swalwell of California was one of the first candidates to take a jab at former Vice President Joe Biden at night two of the first Democratic primary debate on Thursday night, insinuating that he's too old to be president. After being asked what he would do to ...
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"I was 6 years old when a presidential candidate came to the California Democratic Convention and said it's time to pass the torch to a new generation of Americans," Swalwell said. "That candidate was then-Sen. Joe Biden. Joe Biden was right when he said ...
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During Thursday night's Democratic primary debate, Rep. Eric Swalwell paid a tongue-in-cheek homage to Joe Biden's failed presidential 1988 race — in which the 44-year-old Joe Biden declared that it was "time to pass the torch to a new generation of ...
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Online searches over the orange ribbon that California Congressman Eric Swalwell was wearing at the Democratic debate were surging as the presidential candidates faced off in Miami. The U.S. representative wore the ribbon to honor the life of 14-year-old ...
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