Pelosi’s Retirement Throws Open Race for San Francisco Seat

Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s retirement creates an open race to represent San Francisco for the first time in decades, with a prominent state legislator aiming to make the leap to Congress while other potential candidates eye the position.

The race for the staunchly Democratic district, where former Vice President Kamala Harris (D) got 82% of the vote in last year’s presidential election, will come down to assembling a winning coalition among competing factions within the party and the city’s own very local politics.

State Sen. Scott Wiener (D), who launched his campaign two weeks before Pelosi announced Thursday that she ...