新墨西哥州州长米歇尔·卢汉·格里沙姆向途经该州的潜在2028年民主党总统候选人传递了一个信息：关注儿童。
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has a message for the potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidates who are passing through her state: Focus on the children.
这位将于今年卸任的民主党州长告诉Semafor，这些候选人“绝对应该”以全民托儿提案作为竞选纲领。她的州已经实施了自己的全民托儿计划，尽管她承认，如果不增税，全国性的计划可能会“具有挑战性”。
Lujan Grisham, a Democrat who’s set to leave office after this year, told Semafor the candidates “absolutely should” be running on universal childcare proposals. Her state has enacted its own universal childcare program, though she acknowledged a national program could be “challenging” without tax increases.
“如果我处于那个位置，我会明确表示，你将创造激励措施和拨款，让各州拥有真正的机会，”她说。
“What I would do in that position is make it really clear that you’ll create incentives and grants so that states have real opportunity,” she said.
卢汉·格里沙姆表示，她已会见或交谈过许多造访该州的可能总统候选人，包括马里兰州州长韦斯·摩尔和前交通部长皮特·布蒂吉格。她说，他们的谈话“少了一些寒暄，多了一些政策”。
Lujan Grisham said she’d met or spoken with many of the possible presidential aspirants who have visited the state, including Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. Their conversations were “less introductory and more policy,” she said.
新墨西哥州已被纳入早期初选州名单，紧随熟悉的南卡罗来纳州、内华达州和新罕布什尔州之后，这可能会动摇民主党在总统初选中的策略。卢汉·格里沙姆表示，她计划根据竞选格局决定是否背书。“这取决于谁参加初选，不是吗？我的意思是，我希望能处于一个可以做出背书的位置，”她说。
New Mexico has been added to the early primary states, following the familiar trio of South Carolina, Nevada, and New Hampshire, and it could shake up Democrats’ strategies in the presidential primary. Lujan Grisham said she plans to endorse, depending on how the field shapes up. “It depends on who’s in that primary, doesn’t it? I mean, I would like to be in a position to get to do that,” she said.
卢汉·格里沙姆还就民主党州长协会（DGA）因未在德克萨斯州州长选举中投入更多资源而受到的批评发表了看法。
Lujan Grisham also weighed in on the criticism that the Democratic Governors Association has received for not investing more in the Texas gubernatorial race.
“我认为在当前的环境下，DGA应该在各地投入资源，而他们筹款正是为了做到这一点。我的意思是，他们从未像这样扩大过战场版图，”她说。
“I think the DGA in this climate should be spending everywhere, and they’re raising to do exactly that. I mean, they’ve never done an expanded map like this,” she said.
DGA主席、肯塔基州州长安迪·贝希尔——他自己也是潜在的2028年总统候选人——因未向昂贵的德克萨斯州竞选投入更多资源而受到其他民主党人的批评。但卢汉·格里沙姆表示，“攻击DGA并不是最好的策略。”
The DGA’s chair, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, a potential 2028 presidential candidate himself, has faced criticism from other Democrats for not putting more resources into the expensive Texas race. But Lujan Grisham said that “picking on the DGA is not the best strategy.”