The contest to replace Gavin Newsom was already bizarre \u2013 now after the downfall of its apparent frontrunner, the state\u2019s Democrats are scrambling<\/p>\n
Democrats were already fretting about the California governor\u2019s race <\/strong> \u2013<\/strong> a tangle of candidates with strong resumes but little star power all vying to lead the country\u2019s most populous state \u2013 and the world\u2019s fourth largest economy.<\/p>\n Then on Sunday, the closest claim the Democrats had to a frontrunner in the unsettled governor\u2019s race, Eric Swalwell, suspended his campaign<\/a>, amid allegations of sexual assault and misconduct, which the US representative forcefully denied and vowed to fight. On Monday, Swalwell, facing the threat of an expulsion vote, announced<\/a> he would resign his seat in Congress.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The contest to replace Gavin Newsom was already bizarre \u2013 now after the downfall of its apparent frontrunner, the state\u2019s Democrats are scrambling Democrats were already fretting about the California governor\u2019s race \u2013 a tangle of candidates with strong resumes but little star power all vying to lead the country\u2019s most populous state \u2013 and … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}