Fox News co-host Emily Compagno criticized Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) as someone who “pretends to be from the Bay Area.”
On Monday’s Outnumbered on Fox News, the hosts discussed Democrats’ opposition to President Donald Trump’s demolition of the East Wing of the White House to make room for a ballroom. On Sunday, Swalwell insisted that a must-have for any 2028 Democratic presidential hopeful is a pledge to tear down the structure upon taking office.
“Don’t even think of seeking the Democratic nomination for president unless you pledge to take a wrecking ball to the Trump Ballroom on DAY ONE,” he wrote.
“I am so tired of the credibility being shattered, and the instant these individuals get on camera or behind their X accounts,” Compagno said of Swalwell and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY). “And it is so frustrating for me as an American constituent to have to deal with the consistent bile being tripped and dropped and spewed by Hakeem and Eric and everyone else that is doing it for the clickbait rather than serving constituents.”
She went on to say that the new White House ballroom “will benefit us” and that the construction “will now be commensurate with the gold and the dream and the opportunities for America and also the commensurate respect we want to afford.”
Compagno, who grew up in the Bay Area, then pivoted to attacking Swalwell’s backstory. The lawmaker was born in Sac City, Iowa, and was raised there and in Dublin, California after his family moved to the Bay Area. He represents the 14th congressional district, which is in Alameda County.
“But for some very small-minded and bitter people who come from, where does he come from? Iowa? And then he moved to Dublin, California, and pretends to be from the Bay Area?” she said. “For Eric Swalwell to now pretend to be hip and think that he has some weigh in about it, Americans care deeply about a lot of other things.”
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