据《华盛顿太阳报》报道，民主党似乎比以往任何时候都更接近于赢得众议院多数席位；少数党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯（Hakeem Jeffries）已经开始努力争取那些持进步观点的议员的支持，并与他们建立联系。
Democrats appear closer than ever to winning the House majority, and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ is already working to corral — and connect with — a growing chorus of progressive dissenters, The Washington Sun has learned.
至少有六名在初选中获胜、有望在11月当选的民主党议员表示，如果民主党赢得多数席位，他们不会支持杰弗里斯担任众议院议长。即使只有少数议员持反对意见，也可能阻碍杰弗里斯成为议长；正如许多共和党议长所经历的那样，这些反对意见会大大增加杰弗里斯作为众议院领导人的工作难度。
At least six progressives who won their House primaries and will likely get elected in November have not committed to supporting Jeffries for speaker should Democrats win a majority. Even just a handful of holdouts could be enough to stand in between Jeffries and the gavel, or, as quite a few Republican speakers have learned, make life as the chamber’s leader very difficult.
来自科罗拉多州的梅拉特·基罗斯（Melat Kiros）、纽约州的达里亚利扎·阿维拉·切瓦利埃（Darializa Avila Chevalier）和克莱尔·瓦尔迪兹（Claire Valdez）、新泽西州的亚当·哈马维（Adam Hamawy）、宾夕法尼亚州的克里斯·拉布（Chris Rabb）以及密歇根州的多纳万·麦金尼（Donavan McKinney）都明确表示，在11月选举前不会支持杰弗里斯。据多位知情人士透露，杰弗里斯及其领导团队一直在公开或私下场合与这些新兴的进步派议员进行接触。
Colorado’s Melat Kiros, New York’s Darializa Avila Chevalier and Claire Valdez, New Jersey’s Adam Hamawy, Pennsylvania’s Chris Rabb and Michigan’s Donavan McKinney have all declined to back Jeffries ahead of the November election. Jeffries and members of his leadership team have been conducting public and private outreach to the incoming cohort of progressives, according to multiple sources familiar with the conversations.
其中一位消息人士称，杰弗里斯已经与所有在初选中获胜的进步派议员进行了交谈，并计划与他们逐一见面。
Jeffries has now spoken with all the progressives who won their primaries, and has met with or plans to meet with them all in person, one of the sources said.
多位消息人士还指出，杰弗里斯的领导团队成员——包括来自科罗拉多州的乔·内古塞（Joe Neguse）和伊利诺伊州的劳伦·安德伍德（Lauren Underwood）——也一直在主动与这些持进步观点的议员联系。内古塞和安德伍德都希望在下一届国会中晋升为更高的领导职位。据消息人士描述，这些沟通过程非常友好，民主党议员们向这些潜在的新成员提供了建议和支持。杰弗里斯、内古塞和安德伍德均拒绝就此事发表评论。
Reps. Joe Neguse of Colorado and Lauren Underwood of Illinois, two members of Jeffries’ leadership team, have also conducted their own outreach to the lefty insurgents, multiple sources said. Neguse and Underwood are both angling to move up the leadership ladder in the next Congress. The calls were described as friendly and welcoming by the sources, with the congressional Democrats offering advice and support to potential new members. Jeffries, Neguse and Underwood declined to comment on the story.
杰弗里斯也在一些导致进步派与保守派分歧的重大问题上表现出了一定的立场转变。这位长期支持以色列的民主党议员表示，由于今年夏天关于向以色列提供援助的投票引发了党内分歧，美国的中东外交政策“必须做出改变”。在给同事们的信中，杰弗里斯指出以色列“完全有能力自行购买先进的武器”，未来的安全协议应当“与其他西方盟国的国防协议保持一致，并严格遵守我们的人权法律和价值观”。他投票反对了旨在切断美国对以色列援助的修正案。
Jeffries has also signaled some movement on major issues that divide progressives from the establishment. The longtime pro-Israel Democrat said that U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East “must change” after a divisive vote over aid to Israel fractured his caucus this summer. In a letter to colleagues, Jeffries argued that Israel “is capable of paying for its own sophisticated weapons” and future security agreements should “be structured consistently with defense agreements that exist with our other Western allies and strictly adhere to our human rights laws and values.”He voted against the amendment aimed at cutting off U.S. aid to Israel.
最近，杰弗里斯也参与了民主党关于医疗改革的辩论。上个月他对NBC News表示，他不支持“全民医保”（即“Medicare for All”）这一许多进步派所倡导的政策，但在随后的一次广播采访中澄清说，医疗保健应该是“每个美国人都应享有的基本权利”。最近在社交媒体平台上流传的一段2025年的视频中，杰弗里斯明确表示：“普及医疗保健是我们的目标。”
He also recently stepped into the Democratic debate over health care. He told NBC News last month that he doesn’t support “Medicare for All,” the policy preference of many progressives, but later clarified in a radio interview that health care should be “a right available to every single American.”A clip from 2025 recently made the rounds on X with Jeffries saying, “Universal health care is the goal.”
杰弗里斯的努力似乎已经开始产生效果：来自密歇根州的进步派众议院候选人威廉·劳伦斯（William Lawrence）此前曾表示希望投票支持杰弗里斯提出的替代方案来担任众议院议长，如今他已经转而支持杰弗里斯。劳伦斯的竞选活动也获得了民主党国会竞选委员会（Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee）的支持——该委员会是民主党在众议院的官方竞选机构。
Jeffries’ efforts may already be working. William Lawrence, a progressive House candidate from Michigan who previously said he hoped to be able to vote for a Jeffries alternative for speaker, has since thrown his support behind the New Yorker. Lawrence’s campaign against a Republican incumbent also recently picked up the support of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the official campaign arm of House Democrats.
左派人士也在关注：民主党领导人明年可能会如何利用自己的权力来压制持不同意见的人。本月早些时候，在一次党内会议上提出的一项提议令进步派人士感到震惊——该提议规定：那些在程序性投票中违背党派领导的成员将受到惩罚（即无法获得委员会领导职位）。目前，民主党内部正在就应对措施进行争论：两名温和派成员突然转而支持那些有助于推动共和党领导层议程的决议，导致党内出现分歧。
The left is also getting a glimpse at how Democratic leaders could use their power to constrain dissenters next year. Progressives recoiled from a proposal floated in a caucus meeting earlier this month that could penalize members seeking committee leadership posts for bucking party leadership on procedural votes. Democrats are locked in a debate over what to do after two moderates broke ranks to pass rule votes that helped advance the GOP leadership’s floor agenda.
但正如一位进步派人士指出的那样，反对那些将法案提交到全体议员投票阶段的程序性步骤，往往是持不同意见者对抗党派领导的唯一手段。
But, as one progressive pointed out, opposing the procedural steps that bring bills up for floor votes are often dissenters’ only point of leverage against leadership.
然而，这种策略只有在政党拥有极微弱多数优势时才会奏效。杰弗里斯（Jeffries）以及所有进步派人士都在等待着看：如果民主党获胜，他们能获得多大的优势。他们认为，最终正是这个优势大小将决定民主党明年在国会中的影响力。
The tactic only works, however, if a party has a very narrow majority, and both Jeffries and progressives are waiting to see, should Democrats win, what sort of a margin they secure. Ultimately, that’s what progressives believe will decide how much muscle they can flex on the Hill next year.
“如果我们拥有绝对多数优势，那么投票集团将几乎没有任何权力，”一位进步派候选人说道，“但如果优势微弱，那么杰弗里斯就必须与那些对他担任会议主持人持异议的人进行谈判。”
“If we have a big majority then the voting bloc will have very little power,” one progressive candidate said. “If it’s thin, then [Jeffries] is going to need to negotiate with anyone who has concerns about him having the gavel.”