{"id":487288,"date":"2026-10-06T21:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T21:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/487288\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T21:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T21:00:13","slug":"the-bay-areas-hotly-contested-congressional-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/487288\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bay Area\u2019s Hotly Contested Congressional Races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KQED\u2019s politics team joins us to break down the races, the candidates and what to watch.<\/p>\n<p>Oct 6, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Updated 1:36 pm PT<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/kqed-debate-2-2000x1333-1.jpg\"   width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>From left: State Sen. Scott Wiener and San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan debate at KQED in San Francisco on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026. The two Democrats are running for California\u2019s 11th District, a seat Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi is leaving. The debate was co-hosted by KQED and the San Francisco Chronicle.\u00a0(Santiago Mejia\/S.F. Chronicle\/Pool)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KQED\u2019s politics team joins us to break down the races, the candidates and what to watch. Oct 6,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-487288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","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\/487288","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=487288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}