Saikat Chakrabarti, the former chief of staff to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will take on House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi to represent San Francisco in Congress, he announced on X.

Two years ago, after working for the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, Saikat Chakrabarti co-founded an organization called Brand New Congress with a lofty goal: Launch hundreds of progressive ...

He ran Ocasio-Cortez's first congressional campaign in 2018 before becoming her chief of staff. Chakrabarti currently leads a policy think tank that "develops comprehensive solutions to the ...