ICYMI: Gray Can’t Escape His Swalwell Mess

In case you missed it, Democrat Adam Gray is being forced to answer for his close ties to scandal-plagued Eric Swalwell after serving as co-chair of Swalwell’s failed gubernatorial campaign and calling him a “leader with integrity.” Now, those political choices are becoming a major liability Gray can’t run from.

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Will Swalwell damage Adam Gray’s chances?
The Ceres Courier
Jeff Benziger
Apr 14, 2026

The implosion of the Eric Swalwell candidacy and is causing issues for Ceres’ own Congressman Adam Gray who was wholeheartedly behind the embattled fellow congressman months ago.

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There’s a better chance of a snowball in hell than Gray to step down, but this political theater does call into question Gray’s judgment. After all, Gray, who co-chaired the Swalwell for Governor campaign, said of the candidate just months ago: “Eric Swalwell is a leader with integrity and a man of his word.”

Gray had the audacity to praise him even after Swalwell was tarnished with the widely publicized story that he slept with a Chinese spy named Christine “Fang Fang” Fang between 2011 and 2015.

Rumors about Swalwell’s private life have been swirling for years and I believe the Democrats knew it but were willing to take a chance since Katie Porter was shown to be a raging you-know-what in that video of her berating a staff member using obscenities.

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Gray himself won his seat in a very slim 187 vote advantage. 

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