Scott Wiener continues to pull in the most dollars in the congressional race to succeed Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi \u2014 but his opponent, Connie Chan, is quickly gaining momentum.<\/p>\n
Filings released on Wednesday show that in the seven-week reporting period from May 14 to June 30, 2026, Wiener raised $571,000, while Connie Chan, his opponent, raised just over $441,000. For Chan, that\u2019s more than double what she raised in the last filing period. Wiener also improved, raising some 40 percent more than in the prior period.<\/p>\n
Chan\u2019s fundraising boost came after Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi endorsed<\/a> her campaign about two weeks before the June primary.\u00a0<\/p>\n Later that month, Pelosi\u2019s own committee gave $4,000 to Chan\u2019s campaign, and \u201cPAC to the Future,\u201d a committee sponsored by Pelosi, gave $10,000, according to filings.<\/p>\n \u201cConnie Chan defied conventional wisdom with her strong showing in the June primaries, and we have felt the surge of momentum ever since,\u201d said a spokesperson for Chan\u2019s campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cFresh off Scott\u2019s first-place showing in the primary, the campaign was proud to earn the support of over 2,000 new donors this quarter. These resources will fuel a winning campaign this November and help send Scott to Congress,\u201d said Joe Arellano, the spokesperson for Wiener\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n According to their respective campaigns, Chan has more than 3,000 donors and Wiener has 5,320.\u00a0<\/p>\n Additional money has come through to support Chan that is not yet reflected in the latest filings, according to her campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n The latest filings only include contributions up until June 30. The following week, Pelosi hosted a fundraiser for Chan in Jackson Square that brought in over $100,000, according to Chan\u2019s campaign. Tickets to attend the event ranged from $500 to $3,500, the contribution limit for individuals.\u00a0<\/p>\n Wiener had his own fundraising boost: a last-minute cash injection that came in the days after Wiener was accosted<\/a> and made to leave the San Francisco Trans March on Friday, June 26, according to his campaign. In the four days following that confrontation, Wiener\u2019s candidate committee received over $127,600 from 1,070 people.\u00a0<\/p>\n While both campaigns \u2014 and the third-party PACs supporting Chan and Wiener \u2014 spent heavily<\/a> in the run-up to the June primary, records suggest that both campaigns and PACs have shifted gears: They presently appear more focused on raising more, and are spending less.\u00a0<\/p>\n Spending will ramp up again as Nov. 3, Election Day, approaches.\u00a0<\/p>\n PAC vs. PAC<\/p>\n On top of their own fundraising, both Chan and Wiener have significant backing from PACs, which operate separately from their candidate committees and aren\u2019t subject to contribution limits.\u00a0<\/p>\n Notably: Abundant Future, a PAC supporting Wiener, spent heavily in the last period opposing Saikat Chakrabarti<\/a>, who came third<\/a> in the primary. That committee spent over $400,000 in the last two weeks of May. Families for an Affordable San Francisco, another PAC that is canvassing for Wiener, spent nearly $250,000 in the latest filing period.\u00a0<\/p>\n Chan meanwhile has the support of the Working Families for San Francisco PAC, which is primarily funded<\/a> by labor unions.\u00a0<\/p>\n On top of that, the independently wealthy Chakrabarti, who spent millions of dollars funding his primary run, has redirected<\/a> his former campaign staff to support Chan, and converted his candidate committee to a PAC to support<\/a> her campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n Wiener, for his part, got a head start in fundraising long before he declared his run. As of June 30, he had a total of over $4.4 million in contributions. Chan had a total of close to $1.1 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n That leaves Wiener sitting on a larger war chest: As of June 30, his campaign had over $1.2 million in cash on hand, while Chan had $362,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scott Wiener continues to pull in the most dollars in the congressional race to succeed Speaker Emerita Nancy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[13,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-401288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-politics","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401288","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=401288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}