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Ben Ferguson: “Eric Swalwell ends campaign for California governor after…”

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Published April 13, 2026 | Video Starts at 28:39

I want to move on to this other story, the headline that broke on Sunday evening and I'm going to read this headline from cnn. Eric Swalwell ends campaign for California governor after sexual misconduct allegations. He said Sunday would withdraw from the California governor's race in the wake of allegations of sexual misconduct that led to a nearly immediate campaign collapse as staffers quit on him. (28:39–28:47)

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Asserts that Eric Swalwell ended his campaign for California governor due to sexual misconduct allegations.

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“The US Navy is going to block ships entering and exiting the Iranian ports.”
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“The President is saying, we're going to do this blockade with the Strait of Hormuz.”
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“The Manhattan district attorney's office has opened a criminal investigation into sexual assault allegations [against Eric Swalwell].”
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“At least four women have accused Swalwell of misconduct ranging from sexual assault, rape allegations, unwanted contact, sending explicit…”
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“50 of his former staffers have come out against him saying he needs to resign.”
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“Democrats really honed in and obsessed over if Donald Trump hit the, the bridges and the tunnels and then hit the power infrastructure, the…”
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“And, and, and, and by the way, we talked about this on verdict, that's not true, it's inaccurate.”
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“Iran has operated in [the black market oil trade] for quite a long time with all of the sanctions that have been on them.”
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“The regime relies on these tankers 247 moving their currency, which is oil, and then turning that into cash for them to keep their…”
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“If you shut this down, [Iran] is a country that in essence can go bankrupt in a very short window of time.”
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“Every time that [the] Biden administration was challenged on [sanctions enforcement], they said, we haven't lifted the sanctions.”
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“They were not enforcing the sanctions. That's the key point that Americans need to understand because the Biden administration, they did it…”
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“They just said, we're not going to enforce them, so they're meaningless.”
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“I'm going to go all the way back up to a million, two million.”
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“Iran doesn't get a nuclear weapon. That for me is the number one priority.”
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“The President said early on he wanted regime change.”
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“Democrats are afraid they're going to lose the governor's race in California.”
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“The only reason why they defended him indefinitely [is because] they pushed him to be the guy in California and then they turned on him when…”
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