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Does a Sex Assault Claim Kill a Political Career? It Depends. Eric Swalwell. Tony Gonzales. Now, Graham Platner. The battlefield that is this midterm election season is riddled with the campaigns of men felled by their pasts and by inescapable allegations of abuse of power and sexual violence. Even the legacy of an icon, Cesar Chavez, was shattered in a matter of days. Nearly a decade after the #MeToo movement, American politics appear to be in a new reckoning over sexual violence, and how best to respond when prominent or powerful figures stand accused....