Saikat Chakrabarti is making an insurgent push in a district that's long been a power center for one of the country's most prominent establishment Democrats.

House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi will retire after her term ends. For the first time in about four decades, that means there's a competitive race for California's 11th Congressional District Seat.

Republicans are once again trying to tie California Democratic congressional candidates to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, arguing that anyone supporting the party leader is just too liberal to represent the state’s purple swing districts. “Do you stand ...