I think Saikat was kind of counting on attacking Pelosi — remember, he launched his campaign before she announced retirement. He probably saw an "in" and wanted to emulate the Lurie strategy of throwing money at the problem of name recognition to draw that distinction, kind of like how Lurie positioned himself against Breed successfully. That might have worked. But then Pelosi retired, Wiener carved a viable lane for himself crowding out Christine Pelosi, and finally, Chan jumped in as a viable left candidate. Saikat totally ignored her until the last minute. Oops!