Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie ran as the "non-politician" who could hit reset at San Francisco City Hall. But even as a political newcomer, Lurie, scion of one of the city's elite old-money families, is far from an outsider.

Despite being courted by all the major mayoral candidates, Asian voters from all walks of life favored mayor Daniel Lurie.

While Breed, the first Black woman mayor of San Francisco, was seen as among the most progressive leaders in the city's history, Lurie took a more moderate, centrist approach throughout his campaign. Having survived allegations of buying the race, Lurie will now look to implement a series of changes when he takes office on Jan. 6.

Lurie beat out 14 other candidates, including Breed and former interim Mayor Mark Farrell, as well as supervisors Aaron Peskin and Ahsha Safai.

San Francisco's mayor-elect, Daniel Lurie, has tapped OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to help run his transition team, the campaign announced on Monday, as part of

Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie announced members of his transition team, a group that he described as "shaking up the status quo" which include Open AI CEO Sam Altman and retired Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed has lost her reelection race to Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie. Incumbent San Francisco Mayor London Breed concedes the election to challenger Daniel Lurie during a news conference at City Hall on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024, in San Francisco. (Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

Daniel Lurie joined KTVU on Monday to talk about his transition to become San Francisco's next mayor. Russia’s prime-time “60 Minutes” program congratulated Melania Trump on her husband’s electoral victory by displaying on air a handful of nude photographs of future first lady.