What You Gain by Losing Quickly
Recognizing that his presidential bid was going nowhere, Eric Swalwell showed better political sense in getting out of the 2020 race than he did in getting in.
America will not long remember the presidential candidacy of Representative Eric Swalwell.
The California Democrat’s bid for the White House lasted a day less than three months; more than twice that amount of time will go by before voters cast the first primary ballots next year. Swalwell failed to register more than 1 percent in a single poll, and when he dropped out yesterday, it was so early in the race that candidates from his own state were still.
