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It has been a wide-open secret for years that Wiener wanted to make a run for federal office if or when Pelosi retired.

Pelosi already has a challenger — Saikat Chakrabarti, a wealthy progressive who managed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s first campaign, an upset victory.

State Sen. Scott Wiener is a strategic and effective legislator who rarely lets emotion make his decisions — much like Nancy Pelosi, whose congressional seat he would like to take.

It has been a wide-open secret for years that Wiener wanted to make a run for federal office when or if Pelosi retired, but he’s also been deferential to the elder stateswoman of California politics and has made it equally clear that

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