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<\/a><\/p>\nPeople gather at state Senator Scott Wiener\u2019s election party at his campaign headquarters on election night in San Francisco, Calif. on Tuesday, June 2, 2026. (Gabrielle Lurie\/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
He will face San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan, who placed second with Pelosi\u2019s endorsement, in November\u2019s general election, which under state law will be held between the top two vote-getters regardless of party.<\/p>\n
Saikat Chakrabarti, a progressive who ran to Wiener\u2019s left on Israel and who campaigned with the anti-Israel influencer Hasan Piker, failed to make the ballot.<\/p>\n
With 50% of votes tallied as of Wednesday morning, the Associated Press called the race for Wiener and Chan. Wiener took 41% of the vote, with Chan at 28% and Chakrabarti a distant third at 15%.<\/p>\n
\u201cTonight, the voters sent a clear message: they\u2019re ready for a new vision on housing affordability, ICE accountability, smart guardrails on AI, single payer healthcare, and affordable clean energy,\u201d Wiener wrote on X in a victory statement that did not mention Israel. The senator said he would tackle \u201crising authoritarianism\u201d and \u201cdefend immigrants and trans people\u201d if elected to Congress. In his victory speech, Wiener decried President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cdisastrous wars.\u201d<\/p>\n
Over the course of the campaign, Wiener, like his two top rivals, concluded that he believed Israel had committed genocide in Gaza. His remarks upset his local Jewish constituents and cost him the leadership role with the statehouse\u2019s Jewish caucus, but some local Jews still urged their community to back him.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a hard year to be a lefty Jew running for Congress,\u201d Wiener told news outlets during the campaign.<\/p>\n
The race was roiled in its final day by disputed reports that pro-Israel PACs, including AIPAC and Democratic Majority For Israel, were secretly funneling money to Chan via an elaborate shell game. A person familiar with DMFI\u2019s thinking denied the reports to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and said the group\u2019s PAC wasn\u2019t spending for Chan. A representative for AIPAC did not return a request for comment.<\/p>\n
Candidates backed by Jewish and pro-Israel groups had a mixed record in other House primary races in the state.<\/p>\n
A pro-Israel challenger to progressive Rep. Ro Khanna, entrepreneur Ethan Agarwal, was lagging far behind two GOP challengers in the 17th District as of Wednesday morning. The AP has yet to call a second-place finisher, but Khanna\u2019s lead positions him to potentially avoid a runoff.<\/p>\n
In the 14th District to replace disgraced Rep. Eric Swalwell, entrepreneur Rakhi Israni (who had the backing of Bay Area Jewish Coalition-Action) was similarly trailing far behind other candidates. State Sen. Aisha Wahab, the daughter of Afghan refugees who has worked with Jewish groups on refugee issues while also taking a tough line on Israel, clinched the top spot with more than 34% of the vote.<\/p>\n
DMFI-backed San Diego council member Marni von Wilpert bested her Democratic rival Ammar Campa-Najjar \u2014 the grandson of a Palestine Liberation Organization founder \u2014 in the 48th District primary, and will go on to face Republican Jim Desmond, the top vote-getter, in the general.<\/p>\n
The 22nd District primary race in the Central Valley, in which DMFI had spent heavily in favor of moderate state assembly member Jasmeet Bains, remained too close to call Wednesday morning between Bains and progressive school board member Randy Villegas. The race, seen as a bellwether for Democrats nationally in a district they hope to flip, turned ugly as DMFI-backed attack ads drew on Villegas\u2019s alleged role in a school district sexual assault settlement. Bains had walked back her stance that Israel committed genocide after DMFI got involved in the race. Villegas was ahead at press time.<\/p>\n
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