{"id":216031,"date":"2026-05-18T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/pelosi-endorses-connie-chan-in-race-to-replace-her-in-san-francisco-the-mercury-news\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T20:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T00:45:11","slug":"pelosi-endorses-connie-chan-in-race-to-replace-her-in-san-francisco-the-mercury-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/pelosi-endorses-connie-chan-in-race-to-replace-her-in-san-francisco-the-mercury-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi endorses Connie Chan in race to replace her in San Francisco \u2013 The Mercury News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/05\/18\/pelosi-endorses-connie-chan-in-race-to-replace-her-in-san-francisco\/\">Pelosi endorses Connie Chan in race to replace her in San Francisco \u2013 The Mercury News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/05\/18\/pelosi-endorses-connie-chan-in-race-to-replace-her-in-san-francisco\/\">https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/05\/18\/pelosi-endorses-connie-chan-in-race-to-replace-her-in-san-francisco\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-18 18:10:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.mercurynews.com\">www.mercurynews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a respectful summary of the article with an emphasis on maintaining a courteous tone:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Former House Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi has publicly endorsed Connie Chan, a San Francisco supervisor, to replace her in Congress.<br \/>\n&#8211; Pelosi praises Chan&#8217;s understanding of San Francisco&#8217;s values, diversity, and communities, highlighting her readiness to lead with compassion and strength.<br \/>\n&#8211; Pelosi\u2019s endorsement video underscores the need for a leader prepared to defend fundamental freedoms and democratic values.<br \/>\n&#8211; The endorsements come ahead of the primary election, which will move the top two candidates forward to the November general election.<br \/>\n&#8211; Other contenders in the race include state Sen. Scott Wiener, internet businessman Saikat Chakrabarti, and activist Marie Hurabiell.<br \/>\n&#8211; Pelosi has represented California\u2019s 11th Congressional District, largely comprising San Francisco, since her 1987 special election victory.<\/p>\n<p>For more in-depth details, please visit the original CNN report.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pelosi endorses Connie Chan in race to replace her in San Francisco \u2013 The Mercury&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Pelosi_endorses_Connie_Chan_in_race_to_replace_her_in_San_Francisco1.jpg?w=1024&h=683","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216033,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216031\/revisions\/216033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}