Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Eric Swalwell visits Baltimore to highlight campaign's focus

[TexasTowelie]

Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Eric Swalwell visits Baltimore to highlight campaign's focus on gun violence


With his eye on the White House, California Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell visited the 1600 block of Pennsylvania Ave. on Friday — Baltimore’s, that is, not Washington’s.

The candidate, who announced his bid for president last month, met with community activists and nonprofit leaders at the Shake and Bake Family Fun Center in West Baltimore as part of a national listening tour on combating gun violence.

Swalwell cited gun violence reduction as his campaign’s primary policy focus and has listed a mandatory national ban and buyback of military-style semiautomatic assault weapons and universal background checks as some of the core tenets of his platform. A graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park and the University of Maryland School of Law, he said the trip to the city he once called home felt especially personal.

“I love this city and want to see it thrive,” he said. “I don’t want to give up on these cities, and I don’t want the cities to give up hope … the time to act is now.”

Read more: https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-democratic-presidential-candidate-eric-swalwell-visits-baltimore-20190524-story.html

[mtnsnake]

1. Swalwell is awesome. And brave. I can't wait to see more of him in the debates.

He is smart, likeable, and tough. Despite all the death threats he's been getting because of his strong anti-gun stances, he refuses to back down one iota. Over the last year or so, he has gone after Trump like a pitbull in just about every interview I've seen him on.