{"id":343239,"date":"2026-06-02T18:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/343239\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T18:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:34:09","slug":"primary-elections-live-updates-california-iowa-new-jersey-and-more-cast-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/343239\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary elections live updates: California, Iowa, New Jersey and more cast votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <a class=\"AnchorLink\" id=\"image-290000\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"Candidates for San Francisco's Congressional District 11 seat, from left, Saikat Chakrabarti, Connie Chan, and Scott Wiener debate at the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco, on Tuesday, March 31, 2026. (Carlos Avila Gonzalez\/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"599\" height=\"401\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1780425249_961_.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Candidates for San Francisco\u2019s Congressional District 11 seat, from left, Saikat Chakrabarti, Connie Chan, and Scott Wiener debate at the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco, on Tuesday, March 31, 2026. (Carlos Avila Gonzalez\/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)<\/p>\n<p>Candidates for San Francisco\u2019s Congressional District 11 seat, from left, Saikat Chakrabarti, Connie Chan, and Scott Wiener debate at the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco, on Tuesday, March 31, 2026. (Carlos Avila Gonzalez\/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)<\/p>\n<p>                Add AP News on Google <\/p>\n<p>        Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.<\/p>\n<p>            Share<\/p>\n<p>                            Read More<\/p>\n<p>Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was the embodiment of the Democratic establishment for some. So it was perhaps natural that a wealthy former software engineer, Saikat Chakrabarti, announced plans to challenge her in her San Francisco district.<\/p>\n<p>Chakrabarti is the founder of Justice Democrats, a group that launches primaries of fellow Democrats from the left, and he\u2019s used the millions he made in Silicon Valley to fund his campaign. But Pelosi, who has been in office for nearly 40 years, is retiring from her 11th District seat, and it\u2019s not clear Chakrabarti will make it to the November ballot.<\/p>\n<p>He faces <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/california-scott-wiener-house-seat-gaza-2e98d345646f70b931402d90fcf2b1e7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">state Sen. Scott Wiener<\/a>, a well-known lawmaker who has served in San Francisco and the state capitol in Sacramento, and San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan, who has been endorsed by Pelosi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Candidates for San Francisco\u2019s Congressional District 11 seat, from left, Saikat Chakrabarti, Connie Chan, and Scott Wiener debate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1400,7,9,8],"class_list":["post-343239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-2026-elections","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}