A San Francisco Political Showdown: Who Will Take Pelosi’s Seat?
Former San Francisco Mayor London Breed Will Not Run for Congress
San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan Runs for Nancy Pelosi’s Congressional Seat
Pelosi’s Remarkable Career and the Race to Replace Her
Christine Pelosi Eyes Sacramento, Not Congress, in 2028 State Senate Run
Former San Francisco Mayor London Breed Considers Run for Pelosi Seat
What Prop. 50's Passage Means for the Bay Area, Santa Clara County's Measure A, and Nancy Pelosi's Retirement
San Franciscans Bid Farewell to Pelosi, Never a Stranger to Her City
Nancy Pelosi Retiring After 38 Years Representing San Francisco in Congress
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Sala Burton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 85-year-old Democrat leaves behind a historic record of accomplishment — from the power she achieved as a caucus leader and Speaker to delivering significant legislative victories, including passage of the Affordable Care Act, and her unparalleled ability to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897132\">criticize President Donald Trump.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>Nancy Pelosi was the most effective speaker of the modern era, a legendary political thinker and strategist,” said Brian Hanlon, co-founder and CEO of California YIMBY, a pro-housing group. “And San Francisco punches way above its weight in terms of both national and state politics. 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Chan, who was born in Hong Kong and came to the U.S. as a teenager, is leaning into her biography as the basis of her candidacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062094\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062094\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251029-SNAP-PRESSER-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251029-SNAP-PRESSER-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251029-SNAP-PRESSER-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251029-SNAP-PRESSER-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan speaks at a press event in front of San Francisco City Hall on Oct. 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As a first-generation immigrant, I have the lived experience, understanding the challenges that immigrant community faces, and most definitely during this time, when we see the Trump administration sending ICE agents to our streets and also in courtroom, firing our immigration court judges so that they can detain our immigrants illegally,” Chan told KQED. “That is, first and foremost, one of our top priorities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now in her second term on the Board of Supervisors, Chan, who once worked as an aide to former Supervisor Aaron Peskin, opposed Mayor Daniel Lurie’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065708/san-francisco-supervisors-pass-rezoning-plan-making-way-for-taller-denser-housing\">Family Zoning Plan\u003c/a>, which allows denser housing in neighborhoods like the Richmond, where single-family homes dominate. She also opposed a voter-approved ballot measure to close part of the Great Highway and create a public park, and supports sending the issue back to voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Wiener\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>State senator \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now in his eighth year in Sacramento, Wiener has championed landmark \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059533/newsom-signs-ambitious-bill-to-boost-housing-density-near-public-transit\">legislation\u003c/a> to facilitate — even mandate — more housing construction in California, a position that has won him both support and criticism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12060885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12060885\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251021-SCOTTWIENER-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251021-SCOTTWIENER-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251021-SCOTTWIENER-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251021-SCOTTWIENER-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Scott Wiener poses for a portrait at the KQED offices in San Francisco on Oct. 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By any standard, Wiener, 55, is a prolific legislator. This year alone, 12 of his bills were passed and signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom. In an evaluation of state lawmakers across the country, Wiener was \u003ca href=\"https://thelawmakers.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Highlights-from-the-2023-2024-California-Legislative-Session.pdf\">ranked\u003c/a> as the most effective member of the California State Senate by the nonpartisan Center for Effective Lawmaking, a project of the University of Virginia and Vanderbilt University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener, who is openly gay, said it is “definitely time” for the city’s LGBTQ+ community to elect one of its own to Congress. He would be the first openly gay representative from San Francisco in the House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Saikat Chakrabarti\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Software engineer and political activist\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chakrabarti, 39, jumped into the race before Pelosi announced her retirement, saying it was time for a new generation of leaders for the Democratic Party. Wiener also entered the race before Pelosi made her plans public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033166\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033166\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250326-SAIKAT-CHAKRABARTI-ON-PB-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250326-SAIKAT-CHAKRABARTI-ON-PB-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250326-SAIKAT-CHAKRABARTI-ON-PB-MD-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250326-SAIKAT-CHAKRABARTI-ON-PB-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250326-SAIKAT-CHAKRABARTI-ON-PB-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250326-SAIKAT-CHAKRABARTI-ON-PB-MD-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250326-SAIKAT-CHAKRABARTI-ON-PB-MD-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saikat Chakrabarti in the KQED offices in San Francisco on March 26, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After making millions of dollars as one of the first software engineers at the payment processing company Stripe, Chakrabarti worked on Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign and later became chief of staff to progressive icon Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think I’m the only one willing to challenge the Democratic party establishment,” Chakrabarti told KQED this week. “People know that the Democratic party needs a new direction, it needs new ideas and it needs solutions that are as big as the problems that we face. And that’s what I’m offering the voters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What voters care about\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Affordability” is the mantra for Democratic candidates across the country, and this race will be no different. Chan, who criticizes Wiener’s “Sacramento version of affordable housing” in her campaign \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGpCFi8spU4&t=6s\">announcement video\u003c/a>, will emphasize affordability as it relates to housing, but also in health care and child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chakrabarti, who said he is more pro-housing than Chan, supports the controversial plan to build 800 units of housing above a Safeway in the Marina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062182\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062182\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction is underway on an affordable housing apartment building at 2550 Irving St. in San Francisco’s Sunset District on May 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As expected, all three candidates promise strong opposition to Trump’s policies, including ICE raids, mass deportations and federal budget cuts. Wiener, who authored a new law \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058936/masking-bill-fuels-california-legal-battle-over-federal-immigration-agents\">banning ICE agents from wearing face coverings\u003c/a> and bills supporting trans students, is a frequent target of right-wing hatred. He wears it like a badge of honor, and even has a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.scottwiener.com/scotts-maga-fan-club\">Scott’s MAGA Fan Club\u003c/a>” section on his campaign site highlighting attacks by Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene and other conservatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While housing is largely a local issue, defense spending is not — and U.S. funding for Israel could become a contentious topic. Wiener, who is Jewish, has been outspoken about antisemitism while trying to strike a balance between Israel’s right to exist and opposing its war in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chakrabarti has made Palestinian rights a centerpiece of his campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m opposed to military funding in Israel as long as the genocide continues,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chan has also said she would not support sending “weapons of war” to Israel, calling the situation in Gaza a human rights violation that she believes meets the legal definition of genocide.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Money, endorsements — and Pelosi’s shadow\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The success or failure of a campaign depends on many factors, including name recognition, their record, voter enthusiasm, endorsements and resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chakrabarti is the least well-known of the candidates, but he has access to enormous personal wealth to self-fund his campaign. Since this is his first run for office, he mostly points to his work behind the scenes, including his role in helping promote the \u003ca href=\"https://thesolutionsproject.org/info/what-is-the-green-new-deal-proposal-summary-guide/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22908644141&gbraid=0AAAAADGA3AQIqpOqnv0B1w7vIqS8iFOHI&gclid=Cj0KCQiAxonKBhC1ARIsAIHq_ltRspqkYYq6Z9znMHTXhg-Kd_eKvBlT9u3Uq4iJvdj1FNJYYu6RF28aAhcJEALw_wcB\">Green New Deal\u003c/a>, which he said helped center climate change as the key environmental issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033173\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033173\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250326-SAIKAT-CHAKRABARTI-ON-PB-MD-01-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250326-SAIKAT-CHAKRABARTI-ON-PB-MD-01-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250326-SAIKAT-CHAKRABARTI-ON-PB-MD-01-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250326-SAIKAT-CHAKRABARTI-ON-PB-MD-01-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250326-SAIKAT-CHAKRABARTI-ON-PB-MD-01-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250326-SAIKAT-CHAKRABARTI-ON-PB-MD-01-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250326-SAIKAT-CHAKRABARTI-ON-PB-MD-01-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saikat Chakrabarti in the KQED offices in San Francisco on March 26, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to take a movement of candidates and people to make this happen,” he said. “But I think that’s what’s possible right now, and that’s why I’m running.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chan, who is running for the first time outside a relatively small district, could face fundraising challenges. But her relationships with local unions, such as Unite Here Local 2, which represents workers in the hospitality industry, could help with campaign cash and volunteers.[aside postID=news_12063498 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2244433247-2000x1334.jpg']Wiener has been raising money for a potential congressional run since 2023, reporting more than $1 million raised through September, according to federal campaign finance data. He said fundraising accelerated significantly after Pelosi announced her retirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not clear if Pelosi herself will put her thumb on the scale for one of her would-be successors. Among the candidates, she seems most aligned with Chan, who has appeared alongside her at recent public events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An endorsement from the San Francisco Democratic Party could provide a major boost. But that’s a significant hurdle, as it requires support from 60% of local delegates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local party chair Nancy Tung, a leader of the party’s more moderate wing, thinks only one candidate could conceivably win an endorsement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s within the realm of possibility that Scott Wiener would actually get the endorsement,” Tung told KQED this week. “I think he’s probably got the best chance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the June primary, voters will decide which two candidates will advance to the November general election in the race for this solid Democratic seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The leading candidates\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Connie Chan\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>San Francisco supervisor, District 1\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 47-year-old Democrat represents the northern section of San Francisco, including the Richmond District. Chan, who was born in Hong Kong and came to the U.S. as a teenager, is leaning into her biography as the basis of her candidacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062094\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062094\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251029-SNAP-PRESSER-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251029-SNAP-PRESSER-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251029-SNAP-PRESSER-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251029-SNAP-PRESSER-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan speaks at a press event in front of San Francisco City Hall on Oct. 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As a first-generation immigrant, I have the lived experience, understanding the challenges that immigrant community faces, and most definitely during this time, when we see the Trump administration sending ICE agents to our streets and also in courtroom, firing our immigration court judges so that they can detain our immigrants illegally,” Chan told KQED. “That is, first and foremost, one of our top priorities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now in her second term on the Board of Supervisors, Chan, who once worked as an aide to former Supervisor Aaron Peskin, opposed Mayor Daniel Lurie’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065708/san-francisco-supervisors-pass-rezoning-plan-making-way-for-taller-denser-housing\">Family Zoning Plan\u003c/a>, which allows denser housing in neighborhoods like the Richmond, where single-family homes dominate. She also opposed a voter-approved ballot measure to close part of the Great Highway and create a public park, and supports sending the issue back to voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Wiener\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>State senator \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now in his eighth year in Sacramento, Wiener has championed landmark \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059533/newsom-signs-ambitious-bill-to-boost-housing-density-near-public-transit\">legislation\u003c/a> to facilitate — even mandate — more housing construction in California, a position that has won him both support and criticism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12060885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12060885\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251021-SCOTTWIENER-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251021-SCOTTWIENER-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251021-SCOTTWIENER-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251021-SCOTTWIENER-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Scott Wiener poses for a portrait at the KQED offices in San Francisco on Oct. 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By any standard, Wiener, 55, is a prolific legislator. This year alone, 12 of his bills were passed and signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom. In an evaluation of state lawmakers across the country, Wiener was \u003ca href=\"https://thelawmakers.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Highlights-from-the-2023-2024-California-Legislative-Session.pdf\">ranked\u003c/a> as the most effective member of the California State Senate by the nonpartisan Center for Effective Lawmaking, a project of the University of Virginia and Vanderbilt University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener, who is openly gay, said it is “definitely time” for the city’s LGBTQ+ community to elect one of its own to Congress. He would be the first openly gay representative from San Francisco in the House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Saikat Chakrabarti\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Software engineer and political activist\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chakrabarti, 39, jumped into the race before Pelosi announced her retirement, saying it was time for a new generation of leaders for the Democratic Party. 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Wiener, who authored a new law \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058936/masking-bill-fuels-california-legal-battle-over-federal-immigration-agents\">banning ICE agents from wearing face coverings\u003c/a> and bills supporting trans students, is a frequent target of right-wing hatred. He wears it like a badge of honor, and even has a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.scottwiener.com/scotts-maga-fan-club\">Scott’s MAGA Fan Club\u003c/a>” section on his campaign site highlighting attacks by Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene and other conservatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While housing is largely a local issue, defense spending is not — and U.S. funding for Israel could become a contentious topic. 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While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:00] I’m Ericka Cruz-Gavarra and welcome to The Bay, local news to keep you rooted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Newsom \u003c/strong>[00:00:06] Well, good evening, everybody. And let me underscore, it’s been a good evening. For everybody, not just the Democratic Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:16] On Tuesday night, Californians overwhelmingly passed Proposition 50, which gives the state temporary power to redraw our congressional maps. All election season, California Democrats built up Prop 50 as a clapback to President Donald Trump by redrawing the congressional maps to help Democrats retake the House in next year’s midterm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Newsom \u003c/strong>[00:00:44] We stood tall and we stood firm in response to Donald Trump’s recklessness. 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Plus, Measure A passes in Santa Clara County, and Nancy Pelosi announces her retirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:50] So Guy, this is not your first rodeo. Of course, you stayed up for many an election night. But we didn’t think this year was gonna be an election year in California, and it was. I’m curious how this compares to past election years that you’ve covered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:02:06] Yeah, I would say it was a easier election night than a lot of past ones, just because we really got the big result pretty early in the evening. Right after polls closed at 8 o’clock, the Associated Press called that Proposition 50 had passed. And so it wasn’t really a lot of, you know, suspense. I think going into election night, we’re fairly confident Proposition 50 was going to pass. 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To see, you know, 64 percent for this, I think, speaks to the success that the Governor Gavin Newsom was able to have in convincing voters to really, yes, make this a partisan fight and a referendum on the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:33] So Guy, I mean Prop 50’s win wasn’t always a guarantee. There were some early polls that showed California voters were hesitant to redraw the maps. 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One, that they supported the idea of having citizens draw lines, not favoring either political party, but also using this election to push back against the Trump administration and the efforts by Republicans nationwide to pursue seats through gerrymandering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:49] Yeah, and Governor Newsom really came out as sort of the face of Prop 50 in many ways and was really the guy pitching this as this fight against Donald Trump. What did he say at the end of election day after seeing these results?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:05:07] Yeah, what we heard from Newsom on election night was really a call for other states to follow in California’s footsteps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Newsom \u003c/strong>[00:05:16] We need the state of Virginia. We need state of Maryland. We need our friends in New York, in Illinois, in Colorado. We need to see other states meet this moment head on as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:05:29] He made the case for other democratic states to do something similar, to pursue plans, to redraw their congressional maps to help Democrats, because Prop 50 is really part of this nationwide fight over congressional district lines, where we’ve seen Republican states like Texas, like Missouri, like North Carolina, do their own gerrymandering. California has now approved a gerrymander plan favoring Democrats, and there could other states that Newsom called out. As possibly pursuing this down the line as we get closer to the 2026 midterms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Newsom \u003c/strong>[00:06:03] We can de facto end Donald Trump’s presidency as we know it. The minute Speaker Jeffreys gets sworn in as Speaker of the House of Representatives, it is all on the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:21] Well, let’s talk about what it actually means now that Prop 50 has passed, because obviously what happens now is that our congressional districts will be redrawn, and you’ve done a bit of reporting before this about the Bay Area cities that are gonna be really impacted by Prop 50, and some of them include Pittsburgh and Antioch, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:06:47] That’s right. When you look at the 8th congressional district, which includes Pittsburgh, includes Antioch, this is really kind of at the heart of the debate over Proposition 50. This was a district that was drawn by the Citizens Commission based on input that they got from residents. So they heard from residents in Pittsburgh and Antioch, but also in communities like Martinez, Richmond, Vallejo, residents who said, we have a lot in common and we’d like to be included in one congressional district. And these communities, working class, very racially diverse, expressed that to the commission and got included in one Congressional District. What the Prop 50 map does is it takes these heavily democratic voters in Antioch and in Pittsburgh, and it loops them into a district with communities in the Central Valley. And the purpose of that is to help a democratic incumbent in the central valley have an easier path to re-election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:49] It’s interesting, though, because in the reporting you did ahead of the election, many Democratic voters in some of these cities like Antioch and Pittsburgh knew the impact that this would have on their communities and remember how much work went into building that very diverse district, but still supported Prop 50, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:08:12] That’s true. I mean, even the county supervisor Shanelle Scales-Preston who represents a lot of that area on the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors, it was a tough decision for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shanelle Scales-Preston \u003c/strong>[00:08:22] I’m born and raised here in this community and you know I want to make sure that representation is there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:08:28] She understood the impact of having these communities grouped together in a congressional district. She talked about how where she lives in Pittsburgh, she’s like, this is not like the Central Valley. We have very different needs than constituents in the Central valley. But at the same time, she was like, the fact that if we can get Democrats to flip the House of Representatives, it will mean potentially more funding for the issues that I care about in my community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shanelle Scales-Preston \u003c/strong>[00:09:00] These cuts that are coming down from the federal government, starting in January, I mean, it’s going to be a huge, a huge cut. And so I think… You know, if there’s any way that we’re able to get more seats so that we can help the people here on the ground, we gotta do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:48] Well, I wanna move on, Guy, to one local measure that was on the ballot for voters in Santa Clara County where you live, Measure A. This was, of course, the sales tax increase, which also passed. Can you remind us briefly what this does?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:10:09] Yeah, so Measure A in Santa Clara County, it raises the county sales tax by 5 eighths of a cent for every dollar you spend, and it’s gonna raise about $330 million a year for the county. This was put on the ballot by the County Board of Supervisors after we saw these big federal budget cuts to Medicaid, to SNAP, food benefits, and the county leaders basically went to voters and said, Would you be willing to raise taxes on yourself to help? Backfill some of the money that we’re losing as a result of these federal budget cuts, particularly with healthcare. Santa Clara County runs four public hospitals. These are heavily reliant on Medicaid dollars coming from the federal government. So without those, the county was looking at basically a loss of about a billion dollars a year by the end of the decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:10:57] What was your feeling when you saw the uh… The numbers flash across the screen there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>James Williams \u003c/strong>[00:11:01] Gratitude and relief gratitude for our community and its continued commitment to a public health care system that works for everyone in our\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:11:13] James Williams, who’s the county executive in Santa Clara County, was talking with my colleague Joseph Geha on election night and really described the fact that he felt like the passage of Measure A in Santa Clare County gives the county a fighting chance as it kind of grapples with these federal cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>James Williams \u003c/strong>[00:11:29] We are staring down such a devastating level of federal budget cuts. That daunting task still remains in front of us, but the passage of Measure 8 tonight makes a huge world of difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:11:44] Now the question is, this campaign was really run as we’re gonna save the county’s four public hospitals by passing measure A, will the county leaders do that? Will they be able to keep the doors open at all four of the county public hospitals? When Joseph asked James Williams that question, does this guarantee the hospitals remain open? James Williams didn’t 100% say, yes, I guarantee that. So that’s gonna be something to watch going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:17] Well, I wanna transition now, Guy, into something that’s not explicitly election-related, at least to this year’s election, but I do have to ask you about the news around Nancy Pelosi and her announcement that she, after 38 years of representing San Francisco in Congress, will not be seeking re-election. Pretty big news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:12:43] Yeah, huge. I mean, Pelosi has been not only like an impactful leader locally, but someone who really will go down in history as one of the most significant speakers of the House of Representatives in American history, whether you’re talking about, you know, the Affordable Care Act, the work that she did during the Biden administration, pushing that legislative agenda. So an icon in California, as well as national politics, and perhaps the first of a changing of the guard that we might see. Here in our own state’s congressional delegation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:17] Nancy Pelosi posted a video on Thursday morning announcing her decision to not seek re-election. What did she say in this video?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:13:30] She titled the video like a letter to San Francisco and really, you know, in the video talked about her own career representing the city in Congress, but also just like, you now, in her words, like what made San Francisco special.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nancy Pelosi \u003c/strong>[00:13:46] Here we don’t fear the future, we forge it. 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I mean it does seem like we are in this very interesting moment, it seems like, with the Democratic Party really, and folks really wanting to see a sort of generational change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:14:44] Yeah, I think that’s that’s very true. And I do think you’ll see, I think a lot of that discussion go into the 2026 midterms in the June primary in California, younger democratic challengers may be taking on established incumbents. Look, there was already a number of folks who had who had signed up to run for this congressional seat, perhaps in anticipation that Pelosi would make this move. State Senator Scott Weiner has announced that he’s running to succeed Pelosi. So is Saikat Chakrabarti , who is the former chief of staff to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. We’ve heard Connie Chan, a member of the board of supervisors in San Francisco as a potential contender. 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Look at the exit polling around Proposition 50 in California, where almost two-thirds of voters said they disapproved of Trump in a CNN exit poll. Over 90% of those voters voted for Prop 50. Even among voters who said they somewhat disapprove of the Democratic Party, 60% voted for Prop 50. So again, this was not about loving everything that Democrats are putting forward in some cases, but simply the fact that people are opposed in large measure to the way this administration is acting on a whole suite of policies, and they express that in a lot of the election results on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:16:59] Well, Guy, as always, thank you so much for breaking this all down. Appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:17:04] Yeah, thank you for having me.\u003c/p>\n\n\n",
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All election season, California Democrats built up Prop 50 as a clapback to President Donald Trump by redrawing the congressional maps to help Democrats retake the House in next year’s midterm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Newsom \u003c/strong>[00:00:44] We stood tall and we stood firm in response to Donald Trump’s recklessness. And tonight, after poking the bear, this bear roared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voter \u003c/strong>[00:00:56] Everything that’s going on in the world, this has given me a slight little hope as a chance to fight back, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voter \u003c/strong>[00:01:04] We have to stop the Trump machine and we have to get a fair election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voter \u003c/strong>[00:01:09] There’s so much already altered that I feel like we have to make it fair so that there’s a balanced reception of people’s opinions and that seems like the only way to do it right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:23] Today, we’re going to talk with KQED’s politics and government correspondent, Guy Marzorati, about the results of the election and how Prop 50 will change congressional districts in the Bay Area. Plus, Measure A passes in Santa Clara County, and Nancy Pelosi announces her retirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:50] So Guy, this is not your first rodeo. Of course, you stayed up for many an election night. But we didn’t think this year was gonna be an election year in California, and it was. I’m curious how this compares to past election years that you’ve covered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:02:06] Yeah, I would say it was a easier election night than a lot of past ones, just because we really got the big result pretty early in the evening. Right after polls closed at 8 o’clock, the Associated Press called that Proposition 50 had passed. And so it wasn’t really a lot of, you know, suspense. I think going into election night, we’re fairly confident Proposition 50 was going to pass. And so now it’s just kind of digging through the results and kind of ripple effects from Prop 50 that will be following.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:49] Yeah, and let’s talk about Prop 50 for a little bit. This was really billed as California’s rebuke against Trump. So as you mentioned, it wasn’t really surprising that Prop 50 passed in California. How much did it pass by though? Do we know anything about that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:03:08] Right now, with what the Associated Press estimates as about three quarters of the votes in, Prop 50 is passing with 64 percent of the vote, which is a huge margin. To see, you know, 64 percent for this, I think, speaks to the success that the Governor Gavin Newsom was able to have in convincing voters to really, yes, make this a partisan fight and a referendum on the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:33] So Guy, I mean Prop 50’s win wasn’t always a guarantee. There were some early polls that showed California voters were hesitant to redraw the maps. So how did we end up with such a landslide for the Yes side?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:03:47] Yeah, I think in the end, this election became a lot more about President Donald Trump than about redistricting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Newsom \u003c/strong>[00:03:57] Donald Trump does not believe in fair and free elections, period and full stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:04:04] Which was Newsom’s goal all along, was to not make this about whether or not voters favored independent citizen-led redistricting, which remains popular. I mean, there was a CNN exit poll of Prop 50 that said 92% of voters favored independent redistricting in California. 60% of those voters still voted for Prop 50. So in the end, I think voters were able to hold two things together. One, that they supported the idea of having citizens draw lines, not favoring either political party, but also using this election to push back against the Trump administration and the efforts by Republicans nationwide to pursue seats through gerrymandering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:49] Yeah, and Governor Newsom really came out as sort of the face of Prop 50 in many ways and was really the guy pitching this as this fight against Donald Trump. What did he say at the end of election day after seeing these results?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:05:07] Yeah, what we heard from Newsom on election night was really a call for other states to follow in California’s footsteps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Newsom \u003c/strong>[00:05:16] We need the state of Virginia. We need state of Maryland. We need our friends in New York, in Illinois, in Colorado. We need to see other states meet this moment head on as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:05:29] He made the case for other democratic states to do something similar, to pursue plans, to redraw their congressional maps to help Democrats, because Prop 50 is really part of this nationwide fight over congressional district lines, where we’ve seen Republican states like Texas, like Missouri, like North Carolina, do their own gerrymandering. California has now approved a gerrymander plan favoring Democrats, and there could other states that Newsom called out. As possibly pursuing this down the line as we get closer to the 2026 midterms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Newsom \u003c/strong>[00:06:03] We can de facto end Donald Trump’s presidency as we know it. The minute Speaker Jeffreys gets sworn in as Speaker of the House of Representatives, it is all on the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:21] Well, let’s talk about what it actually means now that Prop 50 has passed, because obviously what happens now is that our congressional districts will be redrawn, and you’ve done a bit of reporting before this about the Bay Area cities that are gonna be really impacted by Prop 50, and some of them include Pittsburgh and Antioch, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:06:47] That’s right. When you look at the 8th congressional district, which includes Pittsburgh, includes Antioch, this is really kind of at the heart of the debate over Proposition 50. This was a district that was drawn by the Citizens Commission based on input that they got from residents. So they heard from residents in Pittsburgh and Antioch, but also in communities like Martinez, Richmond, Vallejo, residents who said, we have a lot in common and we’d like to be included in one congressional district. And these communities, working class, very racially diverse, expressed that to the commission and got included in one Congressional District. What the Prop 50 map does is it takes these heavily democratic voters in Antioch and in Pittsburgh, and it loops them into a district with communities in the Central Valley. And the purpose of that is to help a democratic incumbent in the central valley have an easier path to re-election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:49] It’s interesting, though, because in the reporting you did ahead of the election, many Democratic voters in some of these cities like Antioch and Pittsburgh knew the impact that this would have on their communities and remember how much work went into building that very diverse district, but still supported Prop 50, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:08:12] That’s true. I mean, even the county supervisor Shanelle Scales-Preston who represents a lot of that area on the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors, it was a tough decision for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shanelle Scales-Preston \u003c/strong>[00:08:22] I’m born and raised here in this community and you know I want to make sure that representation is there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:08:28] She understood the impact of having these communities grouped together in a congressional district. She talked about how where she lives in Pittsburgh, she’s like, this is not like the Central Valley. We have very different needs than constituents in the Central valley. 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So an icon in California, as well as national politics, and perhaps the first of a changing of the guard that we might see. Here in our own state’s congressional delegation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:17] Nancy Pelosi posted a video on Thursday morning announcing her decision to not seek re-election. What did she say in this video?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:13:30] She titled the video like a letter to San Francisco and really, you know, in the video talked about her own career representing the city in Congress, but also just like, you now, in her words, like what made San Francisco special.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nancy Pelosi \u003c/strong>[00:13:46] Here we don’t fear the future, we forge it. 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I mean it does seem like we are in this very interesting moment, it seems like, with the Democratic Party really, and folks really wanting to see a sort of generational change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:14:44] Yeah, I think that’s that’s very true. And I do think you’ll see, I think a lot of that discussion go into the 2026 midterms in the June primary in California, younger democratic challengers may be taking on established incumbents. Look, there was already a number of folks who had who had signed up to run for this congressional seat, perhaps in anticipation that Pelosi would make this move. State Senator Scott Weiner has announced that he’s running to succeed Pelosi. So is Saikat Chakrabarti , who is the former chief of staff to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. We’ve heard Connie Chan, a member of the board of supervisors in San Francisco as a potential contender. So I wonder now that Pelosi has made this announcement, if we might see some other California Congress members kind of follow suit, um, and announce that they won’t be running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:15:35] Well, Guy, my last question for you. I mean, between the results that we’ve seen in California, both locally but also statewide, Democrats winning in New Jersey and Virginia and also New York City, I feel like the national media is really talking about this election as the first big rebuke of President Donald Trump. Does that seem right to you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:16:01] I think that’s absolutely spot on. I think whether you’re talking about Proposition 50 or these other results across the country, this really was an election about Trump in large measure. Look at the exit polling around Proposition 50 in California, where almost two-thirds of voters said they disapproved of Trump in a CNN exit poll. Over 90% of those voters voted for Prop 50. Even among voters who said they somewhat disapprove of the Democratic Party, 60% voted for Prop 50. So again, this was not about loving everything that Democrats are putting forward in some cases, but simply the fact that people are opposed in large measure to the way this administration is acting on a whole suite of policies, and they express that in a lot of the election results on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:16:59] Well, Guy, as always, thank you so much for breaking this all down. Appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Former House Speaker \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/nancy-pelosi\">Nancy Pelosi\u003c/a>’s love for San Francisco was evident in the iconic images of streetcars, the Golden Gate Bridge and the city’s vibrant neighborhoods that made up her retirement video on Thursday morning — a kind of love letter to her district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike some members of Congress, Pelosi came back from Washington regularly, often appearing at San Francisco ribbon cuttings, town hall meetings and rallies. She was never a stranger to those she represented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Daniel Lurie called Pelosi “one of the city’s great leaders” as he spoke at an event in the Sunset District on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In college, I had the opportunity to intern for Speaker Emerita Pelosi,” Lurie said. “I’ve been fortunate to benefit from her mentorship and guidance, and she has played a similar role for generations of leaders in our city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside a coffee shop on Castro Street, Twin Peaks resident Peter Sichel reflected on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062796/nancy-pelosi-leaves-congress-after-38-years-defining-generations-of-democratic-power\">Pelosi’s legacy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that she’s not 20,” he said. “She’s had a very successful career.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027565\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027565\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-10-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-10-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-10-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-10-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-10-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-10-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-10-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks during a press conference announcing legislation to increase nightlife in Downtown San Francisco to help the recovery of the neighborhood, in Union Square, San Francisco, on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sichel said he got to know Pelosi personally during his four decades living in San Francisco and described her as confident and approachable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s another story when you interact with someone on a personal level, and I think she has great integrity and I felt I was treated with a great deal of respect,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Mission District, Norma Sanchez was still in shock over the news of Pelosi’s retirement as she took her dog on a morning walk through Franklin Square.[aside postID=news_12063196 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/SFODelaysGetty.jpg']“I was so sad. I don’t know why she’s retiring,” Sanchez said. “She is still working like she’s young; she can still do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others said retirement was the right move for Pelosi, who at 85 is among the oldest members of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think in general we’re seeing a theme of a new guard coming in for the Democratic Party,” said Aneil Marathi, a resident of the Mission who moved to the city a year ago. “I think this is one of the better things that she’s done — recognizing where the tide is going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Pelosi was elected in 1987, her district was being ravaged by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11808367/coronavirus-lessons-from-veterans-of-the-aids-epidemic\">the HIV/AIDS epidemic\u003c/a>. Her first speech on the House floor called on Congress to do more, and she set about increasing federal funding to fight the disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She promoted legislation, funding, and programs for prevention, research, cure, and medical interventions to save lives,” the San Francisco AIDS Foundation wrote in a statement. “No single member has been more relentless or more fearless in the face of HIV.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a conversation \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061434/newsom-trump-sending-troops-to-monitor-californias-election-is-a-2026-preview\">with KQED’s Political Breakdow\u003c/a>n last month, Gov. Gavin Newsom, San Francisco’s former mayor, said Pelosi’s impact cannot be overstated and will not easily be replaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061523\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061523\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251024-NEWSOM-ON-PB-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251024-NEWSOM-ON-PB-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251024-NEWSOM-ON-PB-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251024-NEWSOM-ON-PB-MD-08-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom at KQED in San Francisco on Oct. 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You can never take that for granted,” Newsom said, adding, “it will take 40, 50 years for someone to build the kind of credibility that she’s built and the influence and the capacity to deliver that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some will try.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Open congressional seats are highly prized and don’t come up very often, so when they do, they often attract a large field of ambitious politicians. In fact, when Pelosi ran in 1987, she was one of 14 candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033173\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033173\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250326-SAIKAT-CHAKRABARTI-ON-PB-MD-01-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250326-SAIKAT-CHAKRABARTI-ON-PB-MD-01-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250326-SAIKAT-CHAKRABARTI-ON-PB-MD-01-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250326-SAIKAT-CHAKRABARTI-ON-PB-MD-01-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250326-SAIKAT-CHAKRABARTI-ON-PB-MD-01-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250326-SAIKAT-CHAKRABARTI-ON-PB-MD-01-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250326-SAIKAT-CHAKRABARTI-ON-PB-MD-01-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saikat Chakrabarti in the KQED offices in San Francisco on March 26, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even before Pelosi announced her retirement, two serious candidates had jumped into the race for her seat. One is former software engineer \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033097/hes-challenging-nancy-pelosi-and-the-democratic-party\">Saikat Chakrabarti\u003c/a>, a progressive who left Silicon Valley to work for Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign, and later as chief of staff to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Chakrabarti, 39, said he was running to offer a new generation of leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco state Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060826/state-sen-scott-wiener-is-running-for-pelosis-house-seat-saying-it-was-time\">Scott Wiener\u003c/a>, one of the leading \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061112/wieners-run-for-pelosis-seat-marks-a-new-phase-for-californias-housing-politics\">advocates for increasing housing development\u003c/a>, jumped in last month after initially saying he would wait until Pelosi announced her retirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others could join the fray, including San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan, a labor ally whose opposition to market-rate housing development and support for closing the Great Highway could appeal to the west side of the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In college, I had the opportunity to intern for Speaker Emerita Pelosi,” Lurie said. “I’ve been fortunate to benefit from her mentorship and guidance, and she has played a similar role for generations of leaders in our city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside a coffee shop on Castro Street, Twin Peaks resident Peter Sichel reflected on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062796/nancy-pelosi-leaves-congress-after-38-years-defining-generations-of-democratic-power\">Pelosi’s legacy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that she’s not 20,” he said. “She’s had a very successful career.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027565\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027565\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-10-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-10-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-10-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-10-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-10-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-10-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-10-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks during a press conference announcing legislation to increase nightlife in Downtown San Francisco to help the recovery of the neighborhood, in Union Square, San Francisco, on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sichel said he got to know Pelosi personally during his four decades living in San Francisco and described her as confident and approachable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s another story when you interact with someone on a personal level, and I think she has great integrity and I felt I was treated with a great deal of respect,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Mission District, Norma Sanchez was still in shock over the news of Pelosi’s retirement as she took her dog on a morning walk through Franklin Square.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I was so sad. I don’t know why she’s retiring,” Sanchez said. “She is still working like she’s young; she can still do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others said retirement was the right move for Pelosi, who at 85 is among the oldest members of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think in general we’re seeing a theme of a new guard coming in for the Democratic Party,” said Aneil Marathi, a resident of the Mission who moved to the city a year ago. “I think this is one of the better things that she’s done — recognizing where the tide is going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Pelosi was elected in 1987, her district was being ravaged by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11808367/coronavirus-lessons-from-veterans-of-the-aids-epidemic\">the HIV/AIDS epidemic\u003c/a>. Her first speech on the House floor called on Congress to do more, and she set about increasing federal funding to fight the disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She promoted legislation, funding, and programs for prevention, research, cure, and medical interventions to save lives,” the San Francisco AIDS Foundation wrote in a statement. “No single member has been more relentless or more fearless in the face of HIV.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a conversation \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061434/newsom-trump-sending-troops-to-monitor-californias-election-is-a-2026-preview\">with KQED’s Political Breakdow\u003c/a>n last month, Gov. Gavin Newsom, San Francisco’s former mayor, said Pelosi’s impact cannot be overstated and will not easily be replaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061523\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061523\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251024-NEWSOM-ON-PB-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251024-NEWSOM-ON-PB-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251024-NEWSOM-ON-PB-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251024-NEWSOM-ON-PB-MD-08-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom at KQED in San Francisco on Oct. 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You can never take that for granted,” Newsom said, adding, “it will take 40, 50 years for someone to build the kind of credibility that she’s built and the influence and the capacity to deliver that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some will try.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Open congressional seats are highly prized and don’t come up very often, so when they do, they often attract a large field of ambitious politicians. In fact, when Pelosi ran in 1987, she was one of 14 candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033173\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033173\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250326-SAIKAT-CHAKRABARTI-ON-PB-MD-01-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250326-SAIKAT-CHAKRABARTI-ON-PB-MD-01-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250326-SAIKAT-CHAKRABARTI-ON-PB-MD-01-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250326-SAIKAT-CHAKRABARTI-ON-PB-MD-01-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250326-SAIKAT-CHAKRABARTI-ON-PB-MD-01-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250326-SAIKAT-CHAKRABARTI-ON-PB-MD-01-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250326-SAIKAT-CHAKRABARTI-ON-PB-MD-01-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saikat Chakrabarti in the KQED offices in San Francisco on March 26, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even before Pelosi announced her retirement, two serious candidates had jumped into the race for her seat. One is former software engineer \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033097/hes-challenging-nancy-pelosi-and-the-democratic-party\">Saikat Chakrabarti\u003c/a>, a progressive who left Silicon Valley to work for Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign, and later as chief of staff to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Chakrabarti, 39, said he was running to offer a new generation of leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco state Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060826/state-sen-scott-wiener-is-running-for-pelosis-house-seat-saying-it-was-time\">Scott Wiener\u003c/a>, one of the leading \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061112/wieners-run-for-pelosis-seat-marks-a-new-phase-for-californias-housing-politics\">advocates for increasing housing development\u003c/a>, jumped in last month after initially saying he would wait until Pelosi announced her retirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others could join the fray, including San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan, a labor ally whose opposition to market-rate housing development and support for closing the Great Highway could appeal to the west side of the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Former House Speaker \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/nancy-pelosi\">Nancy Pelosi\u003c/a>, who has represented San Francisco in Congress for 38 years, announced Thursday morning that she will not seek reelection. Pelosi delivered the news in a video message framed as a “Dear San Francisco” letter, reflecting on the city’s progress and challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco — know your power,” she said. “We have made history. We have always led the way. And now we must continue to do so. By remaining full participants in our democracy and fighting for the American ideals we hold dear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First elected in 1987 to fill a seat left vacant by the death of Rep. Sala Burton, Pelosi, 85, leaves a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11892317/nancy-pelosi-on-threats-to-democracy-and-tough-legislative-choices-at-kqed-live\">voluminous legacy of accomplishment\u003c/a> highlighted by the 2010 passage of the Affordable Care Act, which continues to provide health care to tens of millions of Americans who otherwise could not afford it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Washington, Pelosi successfully fought for vastly more federal funding for HIV/AIDS and oversaw the bipartisan \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029839/san-franciscos-presidio-trust-defends-existence-response-trump-order\">transformation of the shuttered Presidio Army base\u003c/a> into a vibrant public park with housing, restaurants and nonprofit organizations — a financially self-sufficient operation managed by the Presidio Trust in partnership with the National Park Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one — period, full stop — delivered more for San Francisco and the state of California than Nancy Pelosi, by factors of almost infinity in terms of actually delivering real results for real people,” said Gov. Gavin Newsom recently on KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061434/newsom-trump-sending-troops-to-monitor-californias-election-is-a-2026-preview\">Political Breakdown\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062673\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062673\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-NewsomProp50Rally-48-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-NewsomProp50Rally-48-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-NewsomProp50Rally-48-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-NewsomProp50Rally-48-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at a rally in support of Proposition 50 at IBEW Local 6 in San Francisco on Nov. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In her first campaign, Pelosi was known mostly to political insiders, heavyweights like Phil Burton, who, along with his brother, John, masterminded a campaign operation that helped push Pelosi to victory. Fourteen candidates entered the race, including four San Francisco supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some disparaged Pelosi as a political dilettante, a white, wealthy woman who could not possibly relate to the average person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s never met a payroll. She’s never had to worry about child care,” Supervisor Carol Ruth Silver said during a heated debate televised by KQED in 1987. “She’s never worried about the things that worry most of the people in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054908\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054908\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/JohnBurtonGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1749\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/JohnBurtonGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/JohnBurtonGetty2-160x140.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/JohnBurtonGetty2-1536x1343.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Pelosi and John Burton, right, and her husband Paul Pelosi, in the middle, at election headquarters on election night on June 2, 1987. \u003ccite>(Eric Luse/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pelosi held her ground and dismissed the criticism as a bump along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My attitude is, they’ll take the low road, and I’ll take the high road, and I will get the Congress before them,” Pelosi said at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she did. Years later, her reputation as a street fighter in designer clothing and heels was well established.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to know how to take a punch and throw a punch,” she said on KQED’s Political Breakdown in 2018.[aside postID=news_12027864 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/DSC_1576_qed-1-1020x676.jpg']Pelosi’s career in Washington began in the depths of despair for San Francisco — the early years of the AIDS epidemic, when HIV infection was essentially a death sentence. She made increased AIDS funding and improving the social safety net a top priority. And she delivered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ernest Hopkins of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation said Pelosi’s fingerprints are on all of the major federal initiatives helping to fight the epidemic, including “being one of the principle supporters of the \u003ca href=\"https://ryanwhite.hrsa.gov/about/legislation\">Ryan White Care Act\u003c/a>, initiation of \u003ca href=\"https://www.hudexchange.info/programs/hopwa/\">Housing Opportunities for People with AIDS\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ada.gov/\">Americans with Disabilities Act \u003c/a>— I mean critical components of what we would call the health safety net that have been used over the years to support probably millions of people living with HIV,” Hopkins said, adding that her advocacy went far beyond her own district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She understood that we could not end the HIV epidemic without addressing the epidemic in Black and Latino communities. And so she was all in,” Hopkins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi’s rise to power within the Democratic Party did not come easily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Other people came to me and said, ‘You must run for leadership.’ And when I did run for a high office and leadership, some of the men said, ‘Who said she could run?’ Well, that just lit my fire, really. Who said she can run? We don’t need permission,” she recalled in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932575\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11932575\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1442267994-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Nancy Pelosi stands on the floor of the House dressed in white, in a long shot showing her colleagues applauding her around her.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1293\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1442267994-1-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1442267994-1-1-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1442267994-1-1-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1442267994-1-1-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1442267994-1-1-1536x1034.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-California, delivers remarks from the House Chambers of the U.S. Capitol Building on November 17, 2022, in Washington, D.C. Pelosi spoke on the future of her leadership plans in the House of Representatives and said she will not seek a leadership role in the upcoming Congress. \u003ccite>(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pelosi disrupted the traditional pecking order of power in Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the 2006 midterm elections, when Pelosi led her caucus to a resounding victory — reclaiming a majority in the House for the first time in 12 years — her selection as the next speaker was sealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She didn’t do that by being shy or deferential,” said journalist Susan Page, author of \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Madam-Speaker-Nancy-Pelosi-Lessons/dp/1538750694\">\u003cem>Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. “She did that by being tough and direct and fearless. And those are characteristics she brought to the job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite her image as a partisan warrior, Pelosi often set aside party affiliation to do what she thought was right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She derailed efforts in her caucus to impeach President George W. Bush over the Iraq War. And in 2008, when the economy was cratering due to the subprime mortgage crisis, she rounded up enough Democratic votes to pass the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Economic_Stabilization_Act_of_2008\">Troubled Asset Relief Program\u003c/a>, which Democratic critics described as a Wall Street bailout, to help shore up financial institutions crippled by “toxic assets.”[aside postID=news_12061112 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251021-SCOTTWIENER-03-BL-KQED.jpg']That willingness to set aside party differences was noted by former Republican Speaker John Boehner at the unveiling of Pelosi’s official portrait in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve been a fierce warrior for your party, but when the stakes were highest, you were willing to put the interests of the nation first and take the heat for it. Now that’s leadership,” Boehner said, adding, “No other speaker of the House in the modern era, Republican or Democrat, has wielded the gavel with such authority or with such consistent results.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some ways, the things Pelosi did worst — like media interviews — were the things most people saw, while her strengths were seen by few: cultivating relationships and understanding how to win enough votes to pass legislation. It’s what made her, in her own words, a “master legislator.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to understand people’s motivation, their district, their priorities,” Pelosi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Democrats retook the House in 2018, Pelosi was again elected speaker. She guided investigations into President Donald Trump, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855099/watch-live-house-is-expected-to-impeach-trump-a-second-time-heres-how-it-will-work\">two successful impeachments\u003c/a> in the House that ultimately failed in the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Joe Biden’s administration, Pelosi again wielded enormous power, helping the House pass landmark legislation, including COVID-19 funding, climate change initiatives and the CHIPS Act, which provided incentives for domestic research and manufacturing of semiconductors — essential computer components made mostly overseas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997229\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11997229 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1239105918-scaled-e1762294977631.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-California, introduces President Joe Biden before he addresses the House Democratic Caucus Issues Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 11, 2022. \u003ccite>(Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pelosi and Biden were close political allies for decades. But in 2024, after the president’s disastrous debate performance against Trump, it was Pelosi who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993449/pelosi-suggests-time-is-running-short-for-biden-to-reconsider-campaign\">opened the door to Biden dropping out\u003c/a> during an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” saying “time is running short” for the president to decide whether he would run again — even though he had already said he would. Pelosi’s subtle yet unmistakable nudge for Biden to step aside succeeded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She tried to get others to go raise this issue with President Biden, saying that he shouldn’t run again, and no one would make it as directly as she would,” Page said. “So she finally did it herself, not just in private, but in public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To this day, Biden is reportedly angry with Pelosi over her role in pushing him aside. “In retrospect, turns out she was right. He shouldn’t have run again,” Page said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, the speaker’s family paid the price of rising political violence when David DePape broke into the Pelosi home in San Francisco and attacked her husband, Paul, with a hammer, fracturing his skull. DePape said he was looking for Nancy Pelosi, who was out of town at the time, and wanted to “break her kneecaps.” DePape was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987892/paul-pelosis-attacker-apologizes-at-resentencing-but-prison-term-is-unchanged\">sentenced to 30 years\u003c/a> in federal prison and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002363/callousness-of-paul-pelosi-attack-justifies-potential-life-sentence-judge-says\">life in state prison\u003c/a> without the possibility of parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Pelosi made history as the first woman and the first Californian to become Speaker of the House. But it’s what she did with that power — for her district, her state and her nation — that mattered most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can never take that for granted,” Newsom said in assessing Pelosi’s impact. “It will take 40, 50 years for someone to build the kind of credibility that she’s built and the influence and the capacity to deliver that as Nancy Pelosi.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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