Some helpful advice for the candidates seekingNancy Pelosi’s coveted endorsementin the race to succeed the two-time former House speaker — don’t hold your breath.
San Francisco’scongresswoman of four decadesappears to have no intention of throwing her support to any of the top three candidates in the June primary election, whether it be state Sen. Scott Wiener, city Supervisor Connie Chan or progressive centimillionaire Saikat Chakrabarti.
Pelosi has been mum on the reasons for her decision to stay out of the race, and her office delcined comment, but she told a reporter late last year that an endorsement was “not my current plan.”
Me: Will you endorse in the race to replace you in Congress?PELOSI: “It’s not my current plan”
Chan, a labor-backed Democrat who met with Pelosi in the speaker emerita’s Washington, D.C. office last month, seemed like the most obvious match for an endorsement, and she lamented the lack of a blessing in a recent interview with theSan Francisco Standard.
“I certainly was hoping for that,” Chan said. “If I didn’t say, ‘Yes, I was hoping for the endorsement,’ then you’d be like, ‘Clearly she’s not being honest.’”
The honest assessment among political insiders in San Francisco is that Chan hasn’t done enough to earn the endorsement, as paltry fundraising numbers — less than $460,000 raised by the end of March — would make it nearly impossible to compete.
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David Latterman, a political analyst in San Francisco, told The Post that the lack of money makes Chan a “non-factor,” while Wiener’s decision to launch an exploratory committee in 2023 started the clock on Pelosi’s retirement.
In November, she formallyannounced her decision to leave officeat the end of her current term.
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