Thirty-eight years ago, Congressmember NANCY PELOSI first won election to her House seat by narrowly defeating the late gay progressive San Francisco supervisor Harry Britt. Should she decide to seek reelection next year, the former House speaker will face a formidable gay moderate opponent.

State Senator SCOTT WIENER (D-San Francisco) is officially launching his 2026 bid for Pelosi’s congressional seat Wednesday. He is the second high-profile candidate to do so, as progressive SAIKAT CHAKRABARTI, formerly chief of staff to Congressmember ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ (D-New York), is also seeking Pelosi’s House seat.

The software engineer who now heads the think tank Mission for America has already put $720,000 of his own money toward his campaign, which reported having $95,384 in cash on ha

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