Former Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price held a press conference Feb. 21, in San Francisco during the California Democratic Party Convention, calling on party leaders to condemn gubernatorial candidate Eric Swalwell for reposting what she described as a racist and dehumanizing video of her.
Swalwell currently serves in the U.S. House of Representatives representing California’s 14th Congressional District.
Price, who announced Dec. 4, 2025, that she is seeking to reclaim the seat she lost in a 2024 recall election, said Swalwell’s decision to share the video with his more than 460,000 social media followers represented “an all-time low in civic discourse.”
“It was disparaging enough that the video was first posted on the Internet in 2024, but Congressman Eric Swalwell added insult to injury by reposting it to share with his network,” Price said. “To post the statement ‘Why dehumanize someone you disagree with? This bigotry doesn’t make a point. It sets your point back. Let’s do better’ while at the same time posting the dehumanizing video, is gaslighting and disingenuous.”
Price compared Swalwell’s actions to the inflammatory rhetoric of former President Donald Trump, accusing the congressman of engaging in “petty politics disguised as public discourse.”
“With this type of poisonous discourse Eric Swalwell is tantamount to Trump,” she said. “I agree with Swalwell, ‘Let’s Do Better.’ Let’s do better than to have someone like Swalwell who has consistently demonstrated such a lack of character and wisdom leading the 4th largest economy in the world.”
Price was joined by members of the party’s Black Caucus and Progressive Caucus, who she said were “shocked” by the repost. The news conference called on Democratic leaders to formally denounce the video and Swalwell’s decision to amplify it.
Swalwell, a Bay Area congressman and declared candidate for governor, has not publicly responded to Price’s remarks as of press time.
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Bo Tefu, California Black Media contributed to this report.
