San Francisco Democrats Pick Pelosi Successor in Top-2 Primary as 3 Rivals Offer Diverging Visions
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Updated · POLITICO · Jun 2
San Francisco Democrats Pick Pelosi Successor in Top-2 Primary as 3 Rivals Offer Diverging Visions
3 articles · Updated · POLITICO · Jun 2
San Francisco voters are choosing Tuesday among Scott Wiener, Connie Chan and Saikat Chakrabarti in the first open race for Nancy Pelosi’s House seat since 1987, with the top 2 finishers advancing to November.
Three distinct Democratic lanes define the contest: Wiener pitches a pragmatic, pro-housing liberalism, Chan runs with labor and a corporate wealth-tax push, and Chakrabarti offers an insurgent left challenge backed by nearly $10 million of self-funding.
Pelosi, 86, broke with her usual reluctance to intervene in local primaries by endorsing Chan late, trying to keep Chakrabarti from reaching the general election and to preserve influence over her succession.
The race is being watched as a test of where Democrats are heading on class politics, housing, tech wealth and Gaza in a city long treated as a national symbol of liberal politics.