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    Eric Swalwell wants to be president, and why the heck not?

    by Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times Mar 08, 2019 4 minutes

    WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - In October 2016, shortly before the presidential election, Eric Swalwell was meeting with staffers to discuss his upcoming term in Congress when he suggested, half-joking, that if Donald Trump won he would run against him in 2020.

    Now that Swalwell is an-all-but-declared candidate for president, the challenge is getting others to take him seriously.

    The 38-year-old Democratic lawmaker from a nondescript slice of the East Bay hardly stands out in the abundant 2020 field. He is neither the first nor only millennial running, not the only Californian eyeing the White House and most certainly not the only

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