Far-left extremist California State Sen. Scott Wiener is advancing to the November general election in the race for California’s 11th Congressional District, the deep-blue San Francisco seat that Nancy Pelosi has held for nearly 40 years before announcing her retirement.
With roughly 49% of votes counted as of early Wednesday morning following the June 2 primary, Wiener led decisively with 41.3%, ahead of Pelosi-endorsed San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan at 28.6%, and former AOC chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti trailing behind in third place.
Under California’s top-two primary system, Wiener will advance to face Chan, or whoever ultimately finishes second, in November.
The district is so heavily blue that Weiner will likely win the fall election.
Pelosi had endorsed Chan just weeks before the primary, calling her a trusted ally who knows the district and Congress.
Wiener, a 56-year-old openly gay Harvard Law graduate and former San Francisco supervisor, has built a reputation as one of California’s most extreme politicians.
Wiener’s record is packed with legislation that has drawn intense backlash from conservatives, law enforcement, parents, women’s rights advocates, and even some moderate Democrats in San Francisco.
Among the most controversial is Senate Bill 132, the Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act, which he authored and which Governor Gavin Newsom signed in 2020.
The law requires the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to house transgender, non-binary, and intersex inmates according to their self-identified “gender identity,” or wherever they say they “feel safest,” rather than biological sex, and mandates that staff use preferred pronouns and honorifics.
Female inmates, women’s safety groups, and anyone with common sense argue this law endangers biological women by allowing male individuals into female prisons and showers, potentially increasing assault risks, while Wiener has defended it as protecting “vulnerable transgender” inmates from “violence.”
Wiener also authored Senate Bill 239 in 2017, which dramatically weakened California’s HIV criminalization laws from the 1980s and 1990s.
The measure reduced penalties for knowingly exposing someone to HIV from a felony to a misdemeanor in many cases, repealed HIV-specific felonies for things like donating blood or soliciting sex without disclosure, and aligned HIV rules with other communicable diseases.
Weiner also took a sledgehammer to sex-offender policies with Senate Bill 145 in 2020, which extended judicial discretion on sex-offender registry requirements for all consensual acts between a minor, 14-17, and an adult no more than 10 years older, removing the prior mandatory lifetime registration for men who have sex with underage boys.
Conservatives branded it the “pedophile protection bill.”
Wiener has also gone after federal immigration enforcement with Senate Bill 747, the No Kings Act, which passed the California Senate in 2026 as first-in-the-nation legislation allowing Californians to sue ICE, Border Patrol, and other federal agents in state court for alleged constitutional violations.
The radical leftist has long called for abolishing ICE outright, labeling it a “terror organization,” and previously pushed bills banning federal agents from wearing masks during operations, despite constant doxing threats from his political allies.
Weiner has supported criminal justice reforms reducing penalties for nonviolent drug offenses and has championed additional transgender measures, including SB 107, making California a “refuge” for transgender youth and families fleeing red-state restrictions, and SB 59, automatically sealing court records for gender marker and name changes.
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