It Looks Like Nancy Pelosi Is Being Pushed Out of Congress by the Far Left – RedState
If this rumor is accurate, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will ultimately leave Congress after the 2026 midterm elections. The octogenarian has long been rumored to retire, and potential successors have been building their brands and fundraising structures. Now, NBC News reports that after Tuesday’s election, Pelosi will announce that she is not seeking re-election to her own seat, but there’s more than the story Team Pelosi is telling.
Since this is an extremely safe seat in the most liberal part of California (whether Proposition 50 passes Tuesday or at the end of ballot counting), conservatives should keep their celebrations to a minimum. Part of the reason Pelosi is retiring is her age; she will be 86 on Election Day in 2026. But she is also credibly challenged by two far-left figures who have already amassed supporters and dollars: California state Sen. Scott Wiener (Democrat of San Francisco) and Saikat Chakrabarti, a tech millionaire who founded Justice Democrats and served as chief of staff to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Democrat of New York). The emergence of Wiener and Chakrabarti could pose a problem for Pelosi’s succession plan: It is well known that she wants her daughter, Christine, a documentary filmmaker and Democratic activist, to essentially inherit her seat.
As RedState readers know, Wiener is the state legislator best known for passing pro-pedophile, anti-parenting legislation.
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Wiener announced his candidacy on October 22 via video and, of course, talked about “Trump and his MAGA extremists,” saying:
“I’m running for Congress to defend San Francisco, our values, our people, and the Constitution of the United States with everything I have. I’ve resisted and hated violence my whole life. Trump and his MAGA extremists don’t scare me.”
It’s official: I’m running for Congress to represent San Francisco!
I will fight against Trump’s takeover, for our values and for real progress. I have succeeded on housing, health care, clean energy and civil rights – and I will again.
Let’s build the future that our city and our country deserve. pic.twitter.com/4jDBha0F24
– Senator Scott Wiener (@Scott_Wiener) October 22, 2025
During AOC’s first term in Congress, Chakrabarti stoked conflict between her boss and Pelosi, and Pelosi won that round, forcing Chakrabarti and Corbin Trent, then AOC’s communications director, to step aside. Chakrabarti tweeted things like: “All these articles want to assert what a legislative mastermind Pelosi is, but I see a lot more strategic intelligence from freshmen members like @AOC, @IlhanMN, @RashidaTlaib and @AyannaPressley. Pelosi is just angry that she was outwitted (again) by the Republicans,” and “Pelosi claims we can’t focus on impeachment because it distracts from the issues at the kitchen table. But I challenge you to find voters who can name just one thing House Democrats did for their kitchen table this year. What is this legislative brain doing? » According to Politico, Chakrabarti deleted a series of tweets as part of a peace agreement between the “moderate and progressive factions” of the Democratic caucus.
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But he hasn’t forgotten his animosity toward Pelosi, and he has the money and infrastructure to fix it. From Politico:
“I tried to do it as a staff member last time,” he said, a note of frustration in his voice. “It’s tough. It’s the kind of thing where you have to be a member of Congress. And I think once we get elected or a number of us get elected, you actually need a member of Congress who’s going to organize the group. Like our political strategy, which we honestly didn’t have in 2018 with the team and all that.”
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Money will not be a problem for Chakrabarti. He’s worth about $100 million, having helped build payment processor Stripe in 2011, an experience he describes as “winning the startup lottery.” He has already invested $700,000 in his own campaign. Chakrabarti can afford to devote much of his day to the organization because he doesn’t have to worry about courting donors.
Wiener seems a little salty that Chakrabarti threw his hat into the race, since Wiener has been looking to replace Pelosi for years, telling Politico:
“Saikat is doing smart things – for example, spending heavily on digital – to try to compensate for his lack of background or work history in the San Francisco community.”
Wiener raised over $1,000,000 and was waiting to formally announce his candidacy until Pelosi officially announced her retirement, but after learning that Chakrabarti had over 800 people at an early campaign event, he decided to make things official.
Pelosi’s team says they’re only thinking about Tuesday’s Prop 50 election in California. His spokesperson, Ian Krager, issued the following statement to NBC News:
“Speaker Pelosi is fully focused on her mission to win California’s All-50 Special Election on Tuesday. She urges all Californians to join that mission on the path to taking back the Democratic House.”
And Pelosi herself told the San Francisco Examiner last month that any decision on whether to run again in 2026 would be made after the Prop 50 election. Pelosi really didn’t have much to do with the Yes on 50 special election; she’s sometimes stood alongside Gavin Newsom at his lawn events, but she’s really Newsom’s baby. But it’s a convenient story to downplay the fact that the far-left faction of the party is not giving up and refusing to allow Pelosi’s safe Democratic seat to go to what she sees as an establishment Democrat.
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