Eric Swalwell hires Parkland survivor and gun control activist for his campaign

California Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell has hired gun rights activist Cameron Kasky in his latest bid to reaffirm his tenure as the representative for the state's 15th congressional district.

Twenty-year-old Kasky, a survivor of the February 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, has made a name for himself as a prominent gun control activist and is no stranger to partnering with the California Democrat.

Swalwell leaned on Kasky’s traction as a gun control activist during his bid for the presidency in the spring of 2019 and made gun rights reform a cornerstone of his campaign.

The then three-term congressman dropped out of the race for president after just three months, announcing in a statement that following the first Democratic presidential debate "our polling and fundraising numbers weren’t what we had hoped for, and I no longer see a path forward to the nomination."