Where Swalwell’s exit leaves the California governor’s race

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  I'm Miles Parks.

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  I cover voting.

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  And I'm Domenico Montanaro, senior political editor and correspondent.

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  And we also have KQED's Guy Marzarati joining us today.

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  Hi, Guy.

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  Hey, great to be with you all.

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  Yeah, great to have you back.

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  Today on the show, we are talking about the race for governor in America's most populous state.

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  California.

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  And Guy, this is a race that looks very different than it did just a few days ago after now former

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  Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell dropped out of the race over the weekend.

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  Can you get us up to speed on the allegations that led him to make that decision?

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  Yeah, so these were allegations reported by the San Francisco Chronicle and CNN that Swalwell had sexually

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