Swalwell slammed for missing more votes in 2025 than Dem colleague who passed away

One of many main Democratic opponents of Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif. within the race for governor of California, unleashed a “savage” marketing campaign advert that used Swalwell’s personal phrases in opposition to him.

Billionaire gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer, who additionally didn’t run for president in 2020, multiple videos used Swalwell posted on social media through the 2025 authorities shutdown on the pool and health club as an assault on his missed votes in Washington, D.C.

The Swalwell movies, which had been initially supposed as an assault on Republicans and blamed them for why he did not work through the 40-plus day shutdown, repeatedly say, “I must be working.”

“Eric Swalwell’s job is to vote in Congress,” the advert begins amid movies of Swalwell within the pool and on the health club, telling his followers he “must be working” proper now. “In 2025, Eric Swalwell missed 95 votes. That is greater than Rep. Raul Grijalva missed. Rep. Grijalva died in March 2025.”

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Consultant Eric Swalwell (D-CA) wears a protecting masks whereas talking throughout a Home Intelligence Committee listening to on April 15, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Al Drago-Pool/Getty Photos)

In response to GovTrack.US, between September 19, 2025 and February 9, 2026, Swalwell missed 102 of 139 roll name votes, or 73%. In late November, he introduced he would exchange Governor Gavin Newsom as California’s subsequent governor. In Steyer’s advert, the billionaire’s marketing campaign claims that Swalwell has missed 68% of the vote since he ran for workplace.

‘He hasn’t proven up for work and now he is asking for a promotion’ the advertisement ended, because it continued to point out clips of Swalwell bench urgent and speaking about how he must be in a go well with on Capitol Hill and never pumping iron.

Congressman Eric Swalwell pumps iron in a video he posted to social media in July 2025, condemning Republicans for allegedly sending him residence and stopping the California congressman from doing his job. (Eric Swalwell for Governor)

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“Savage,” Democratic commentator Kaivan Shroff posted on X.

“Steyer being damaging on Swalwell this early is the newest proof that the Dem primaries this cycle might be dirtier than they’ve been shortly,” Kevin Robillard, senior editor of the Huffington Submit, wrote on X.

“Cheeky advert,” Washington Free Beacon reporter Jon Levine posted on X.

Swalwell began posting these movies final summer time, complaining that Republicans despatched him residence for political causes.

‘I must be working now. I must be in Congress. I ought to vote to scale back your prices. However as an alternative I am in a pool as a result of the Republicans despatched everybody residence as a result of they will not launch the Epstein information,” Swalwell mentioned in a video he posted to his social media accounts in late July from a glistening pool on the water. “We may work to decrease your prices, guarantee healthcare is reasonably priced, and guarantee we restore the rights of everybody in our neighborhood. I must be working now.’

“Nevertheless, Swalwell has saved his constituents knowledgeable about his exercises even when he isn’t truly working,” Fox Information contributor Jonathan Turley posted on

In response to Swalwell and different Democrats, Republicans on the time despatched everybody in Congress residence early to forestall a vote on an Epstein transparency app, which was later adopted. Nevertheless, Republicans mentioned Democrats had been attempting to thwart measures already being pursued by the chief department on the time.

The pool video was a part of a sequence of different “I must be working now” movies from Swalwell on the time, together with one he made whereas throwing out the primary pitch for his hometown’s minor league baseball workforce and one other of him bench urgent 135 kilos on the health club.

Congressman Eric Swalwell lounges in his pool in a video he posted to social media, criticizing Republicans for allegedly sending him residence and stopping the California congressman from doing his job in July 2025. (Eric Swalwell for Governor)

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Fox Information Digital reached out to Swalwell and his representatives for touch upon criticism that he missed votes, however didn’t hear again in time for publication.