California State Sen. Scott Wiener won his state’s primary Tuesday to replace Sen. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), taking 41 percent of the vote compared to San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan’s 28 percent. A far-left candidate, former chief of staff to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) Saikat Chakrabarti, who had campaigned with antisemitic streamer Hasan Piker and failed to make the ballot, nevertheless garnered a small percentage of the vote, at 15 percent as of Wednesday morning, with 50 percent of the vote tallied.

Scott Wiener drew fire from Jewish leaders in California during his campaign for reversing himself on calling Israel’s actions in Gaza a genocide, a label he rejected in a Jan. 11 interview with The Atlantic. But hours later, seeing that this position would harm his candidacy, he posted a video statement in which he said he had changed his mind.

A coalition of Jewish groups released a statement saying that his video remarks were “both incorrect and lack[ing] moral clarity.” 

As a result, he broke with the California Legislative Jewish Caucus, stepping down from his role as co-chair.