Pelosi Endorses Connie Chan for San Francisco House Seat

For more than thirty years, Nancy Pelosi was the human embodiment of San Francisco's Democratic identity in Washington — and now, in the spring of 2026, she has chosen Connie Chan to carry that inheritance forward. The endorsement is less a single act than a transfer of accumulated political capital: donor networks, activist loyalties, and the symbolic weight of a name that still defines the city's progressive tradition. In a crowded primary where positioning matters enormously, Pelosi's blessing arrives as both a consolidating force and a clarifying one — narrowing the field's meaning even be