BREAKING: Progressive Running To Replace Nancy Pelosi's Seat SURGING

Chakrabarti’s new poll puts him within hailing distance of Wiener. Saikat Chakrabarti is just five percentage points behind frontrunner Sen. Scott Wiener, according to a new poll commissioned and shared by Chakrabarti’s campaign and conducted by Data For Progress.

The poll, which surveyed 537 likely primary voters in California 11th congressional district in English only, found Wiener leading Chakrabarti 33-to-28 heading into June’s primary. The margin of error is four percent. Connie Chan, the District 1 supervisor, polled at 13 percent.

San Francisco political observers have long expected that Wiener will win the June primary election, where only two top candidates can advance to the November general election, regardless of party affiliation. That would leave Chan and Chakrabarti to battle for second place.

Chakrabarti, a former tech engineer and centimillionaire, joined the race to succeed Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi with little to no name recognition in San Francisco, compared to the other two leading candidates, Wiener and Chan, both longtime politicians in the city.

But he has quickly spent hundreds of thousands of dollars and is self-funding his campaign to the tune of $1.5 million, seeking to buy that visibility.

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