Posted on 07/08/2019 2:25:19 PM PDT by Kaslin
By the looks of it, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) is preparing to call it quits on his presidential campaign. He's canceled several of his events and scheduled a press conference for this afternoon at 4 p.m., where he's expected to make it official. Instead, he's going to run to keep his House seat. It should be a surprise to no one who has followed the early stages of the 2020 Democratic primary.
Swalwell's short-lived effort was light on substance and heavy on the cringe. He struggled to attract crowds, and picked losing fights. About 18 people showed up to his anti-gun rally in June near the National Rifle Association headquarters in Virginia - something the NRA had a field day with.
Look! All of presidential candidate Swalwell's supporters came out to our headquarters today. No wonder he is polling at 0%. pic.twitter.com/sFZAishEoC— NRA (@NRA) June 17, 2019
His debate performance in Miami also did him no favors. His random interruptions were annoying, and his talking points fell painfully flat.
"When I'm not changing diapers, I'm changing Washington," he said in his closing statement.
So painful.
Swalwell is lucky he even made the debate stage, as he had never garnered more than 1 percent in the polls.
Back when Swalwell was confident about his White House chances and his plans to enforce gun control, he challenged Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his agenda.
"We have a lot of momentum to seize right now," Swalwell said last week. "So I’m not even accepting the premise that Mitch McConnell is going to be there."
Well, McConnell's team had the perfect clap back in light of today's news.
Good work, Swalwell. pic.twitter.com/jBYqtPqb4z— Team Mitch (@Team_Mitch) July 8, 2019
Of course, there are more than 20 Democrats where he came from, including several others who are polling below 1 percent.
I guess nuking gun owners wasn’t as popular as he thought.....
Welp, now all that remains is to figure out how to divide up the remainder of the immense Swallowell campaign war chest...
As Stevie Miller sang, ‘Go on, take the money and run!’
Guess he’ll have to nuke us from his private lair rather than the White House.
I don’t think the left could name something that IS popular. Or could survive twenty minutes of debate.
BOL!
Reality shreds another rat hopeful!
Wow. Entire dozens of voters now have to find another, uh, candidate.
Hate to see him go. Was always a reliable laugh. “Nuke ‘Em Swallwell!”.
Now he can go back to his day job, which is making nasty comments about President Trump for the TV cameras.
He’s got two problems.
1.) He’s white.
2.) He’s stupid.
We have to mention also, he’s presumably heterosexual.
Mayor Pete can’t be criticized in the same manner because he’s got homosexuality going for him.
In the Democrat world, you have to be able to point to what grievance group you are a member of. Swalwell is not a member of any such groups. He’s out of luck.
“Go on, take the money and run!”
Those jeans pockets chock full of his entire campaign booty of nickels and dimes will slow him down a bit.
“Welp, now all that remains is to figure out how to divide up the remainder of the immense Swallowell campaign war chest...”
They’ll be lucky if each gets enough
to buy a pizza for a campaign rally.
The smug little weasel gave it his best try.
Nice
The POS knew he had no shot in hell. He just wanted some political street cred,easy money and a outside shot of crumbs. The guy is an a-hole like the others.
Maybe he realized that firearms manufacturing is a major industry in New Hampshire. I guess nobody told him that voters in Newport NH really don’t want to listen to his nonsense.
“Maybe he realized that firearms manufacturing is a major industry in New Hampshire”
Or maybe he realized most of us have what in California would be called an “arsenal” and would not care for being nuked.
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