美联社 华盛顿 —— 今年中期选举季，关于社会主义的讨论很多，但实际参选国会且与民主党极左翼保持一致、或自认为属于美国民主社会主义者组织的候选人寥寥无几。
ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — There’s been a lot of talk this midterm election season about socialism , but only a handful of candidates running for Congress actually align with the far-left wing of the party or consider themselves part of the Democratic Socialists of America.
这些候选人大多来自少数几个民主党大本营，且有几人在激烈的初选中击败了资深现任议员。她们预计将在11月3日的选举中获胜，届时将加入众议院中现有的两名民主社会主义者行列。
Most of these candidates come from a few Democratic strongholds , and several toppled seasoned incumbents in hard-fought primary campaigns. They are expected to win their elections on Nov. 3, and would join two democratic socialists already in the House.
这些进步派新人为民主党注入了新活力，也给党领导层带来潜在挑战，无论众议院多数党是民主党还是共和党，这种情况都将持续到唐纳德·特朗普总统任期的最后两年。
The progressive newcomers bring a new energy to the Democratic Party and also potential challenges for leadership , regardless of whether Democrats or Republicans hold the House majority, for the final two years of President Donald Trump’s term.
尽管共和党对社会主义敲响警钟，但这种警告的威慑力可能不如从前，尤其是在民主党选民中。这些候选人不会是首批登上全国舞台的民主社会主义者。纽约市长佐赫兰·马姆达尼的当选、众议员亚历山德拉·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯（民主党-纽约州）的崛起，以及佛蒙特州参议员伯尼·桑德斯的持久影响力，都说明美国政治观念正在发生变化。以下是一些可能进入国会的候选人简介。
While Republicans have raised alarm bells over socialism, the warning may not pack the punch it once did, particularly among Democrats . These candidates wouldn’t be the first democratic socialists on the national scene. The election of New York’s Mayor Zohran Mamdani , the rise of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , D-N.Y., and the enduring influence of Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont all speak to shifting ideas in American politics. Here’s a look at some of the candidates potentially coming to Congress.
谢瓦利耶曾是一名社区组织者，也是马姆达尼市长竞选团队的外勤工作人员，她在曼哈顿上城和布朗克斯区以意外胜利击败了长期任职的众议员阿德里亚诺·埃斯皮亚特。
Chevalier was a community organizer and a field staffer for Mamdani’s mayoral campaign who landed an upset victory over long-serving Rep. Adriano Espaillat in upper Manhattan and the Bronx.
这位政治新人去年正式成为民主社会主义者，其竞选核心主张是：政府——以及她的对手——已经抛弃了工人阶级。她主张国会需要新面孔来挑战现状。
A newcomer to politics who formally became a democratic socialist last year, Chevalier centered her campaign on the idea that government — and her opponent — had abandoned the working class. She argued Congress needs fresh faces to challenge the status quo.
“我觉得人们真的厌倦了那种似乎更听命于捐款人的政治，”她在初选获胜前几小时告诉美联社。
“I think folks are really tired of politics that seems more beholden to donors,” she told The Associated Press hours before she won her primary.
谢瓦利耶曾协助组织哥伦比亚大学的亲巴勒斯坦抗议活动，并将反对以色列在加沙的“种族灭绝”作为其竞选的基石。上个月，她在曼哈顿联合国大会期间抗议以色列总理内塔尼亚胡演讲时被捕。
Chevalier once helped organize pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University and made opposition to Israel’s “genocide” in Gaza the cornerstone of her campaign. She was arrested last month during a protest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly in Manhattan.
基罗斯是一名律师转攻读博士学位的学生，在初选中取得惊人胜利，这位首次参选者击败了连任30年的现任众议员迪安娜·德盖特，赢得了丹佛地区的众议院席位。
Kiros, a lawyer turned doctoral student, won a stunning primary victory , the first-time candidate beating 30-year incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette in the Denver-area seat.
这位29岁的埃塞俄比亚裔移民出生后随家人搬到科罗拉多州，拥有马里兰州华盛顿学院政治学和经济学学士学位，以及圣母大学法学学位。在竞选国会议员前，她在纽约市担任律师，自称民主社会主义者。
The 29-year-old, an immigrant from Ethiopia whose family relocated to Colorado after she was born, earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and economics from Washington College in Maryland, and her law degree from the University of Notre Dame. She was working as an attorney in New York City before running for Congress as a democratic socialist.
基罗斯站在写着“权力归人民”的标语牌下发表胜选演讲，阐述了她的计划：向“唐纳德·特朗普和寡头统治”开战、废除美国移民与海关执法局、推行全民医保，以及结束“巴勒斯坦的种族灭绝”。“这是一场运动，”基罗斯说，“我们才刚刚开始。”
Taking to a stage under a sign that read “Power to the People,” Kiros laid out her plans in a victory speech: taking the fight to “Donald Trump and the oligarchy,” abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, passing Medicare for All and ending the “genocide in Palestine.”“This is a movement,” Kiros said. “We are just getting started.”
34岁的麦金尼在民主党初选中克服巨大的资金劣势，击败了现任众议员什里·塔内达尔，赢得了底特律地区的国会选区席位。
The 34-year-old McKinney overcame a major spending disadvantage in the Democratic primary to unseat Rep. Shri Thanedar in a Detroit-area congressional district.
麦金尼是密歇根州议员，开展草根竞选，主张改革公用事业费用、支持全民医保、以及将金钱赶出政治。“我们的政党不能再继续侍奉两个主子了，”麦金尼8月在一次活动中说，“由我们来推动我们的政党，要么为工人阶级而战，要么继续为企业寡头而战。”麦金尼自称民主社会主义者，并获得美国民主社会主义者组织的背书。
McKinney, a Michigan state lawmaker, ran a grassroots campaign focused on reforming utility costs, backing Medicare for All, and getting money out of politics. “No longer can our party continue to serve two masters,” McKinney said at an event in August. “It’s up to us to push our party to either fight for the working people, or continue to fight for the corporate oligarchs.”McKinney has described himself as a democratic socialist and was endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America.
拉布在宾夕法尼亚州众议院任职已达10年，作为该议院最进步、直言不讳的成员之一，带来了一种挑衅性的政治风格。这位常春藤盟校毕业的拉布在一个民主党占绝对优势的费城选区，赢得了四人角逐的初选。
Rabb has served 10 years in the Pennsylvania state House of Representatives, bringing a provocative style of politics as one of the chamber’s most progressive and outspoken members. The Ivy League-educated Rabb won a four-way primary in a heavily Democratic Philadelphia district.
拉布表示，他于2026年加入了美国民主社会主义者费城分会，但他的参与可追溯至一系列进步团体和事业。他在初选中以进步议题为竞选纲领，重点强调金钱在政治中的腐蚀性作用。
Rabb has said that he joined the Philadelphia chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America in 2026, but that he traces his involvement with a constellation of progressive groups and causes. He ran on progressive issues in the primary, with an emphasis on the corrosive role of money in politics.
“我相信民主党更倾听资助它的人，而不是真正出来投票的人，”他说。“结果就是，最贴近痛苦的人和最贴近钱袋子的人之间，存在着巨大的脱节。”他支持废除美国移民和海关执法局、对数据中心实施暂停令，以及通过“全民医保”医疗补贴。他还支持创办新的政府经营杂货店——以消除“食物荒漠”，并扩大联邦最低工资法的适用范围，取消较低的小费最低工资标准，使零工工人等独立承包商也纳入保障范围。
“I believe that the Democratic Party listens more to people who fund it than the people who actually come out to vote,” he said. “And as a result, there’s this huge disconnect between the people closest to the pain and the people closest to the purse.”He supported abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, imposing a moratorium on data centers and passing a Medicare for All health care subsidy. He also supported creating new government-run grocery stores — to wipe out “food deserts” — and expanding federal minimum wage law to eliminate a lower tipped minimum wage and cover independent contractors such as gig workers.
瓦尔德兹是一名州议员，也是马姆达尼支持的进步派名单成员之一，参与今年纽约州的选举。她在布鲁克林和皇后区一个广阔、已完成绅士化的选区的民主党初选中，击败了即将卸任的众议员尼亚·维拉兹奎兹钦点的继任者，预计将在今秋顺利当选国会议员，因为该选区呈深蓝倾向。
Valdez is a state lawmaker and part of a slate of Mamdani-backed progressives in New York elections this year. She beat the handpicked successor to retiring Rep. Nydia Velazquez in the Democratic primary for a sprawling, gentrified district in Brooklyn and Queens, and is expected to sail through to Congress this fall, given the district’s deep-blue bent.
她将自己定位为在华盛顿推动马姆达尼议程的助推者，竞选中大力主打负担得起和代际更迭，承诺将把对抗特朗普的斗争带入国会，并从国会捍卫工人阶级利益。
She cast herself as a booster of Mamdani’s agenda in Washington and campaigned heavily on affordability and generational change, promising to bring the fight to Trump and champion the working class from Congress.
自2019年起成为美国民主社会主义者组织（DSA）纽约市分会成员的瓦尔德兹表示，她希望证明围绕马姆达尼当选的热议并非昙花一现，而是预示着民主党内部正在兴起一股民粹主义转向。
A member of the New York City chapter of the DSA since 2019, Valdez has said she hopes to prove the buzz around Mamdani’s election wasn’t a flash in the pan but instead signaled a burgeoning populist shift in the Democratic Party.
“目前，民众对党领导层的运作方式以及其对特朗普抵抗不够坚决，存在着真正的大规模不满，”瓦尔德兹今年早些时候告诉美联社。
“Right now there’s really mass dissatisfaction with the way the party leadership has been operating and not standing up strongly enough to Trump,” Valdez told The Associated Press earlier this year.
其他几位候选人立场偏向党内左翼，但不一定是DSA成员。此外，一些民主社会主义候选人仍陷入胶着的选战之中。
Several other candidates align with the party’s left wing but are not necessarily DSA members. Additionally, some democratic socialist candidates remain locked in tight election contests.
亚当·哈马维是一名陆军老兵和医生，在新泽西州一个民主党稳占选区参选。他表示自己不是DSA成员，但会与支持将企业资金排除出政治的人士结盟。
Adam Hamawy, an Army veteran and medical doctor, running in a safe Democratic district in New Jersey, has said he’s not a member of the DSA but that he would ally himself with people who support getting corporate money out of politics.
“他们又在遭受恐吓式攻击，当你无话可说时，这真的是最后的手段，”他在接受记者克里斯·海吉斯采访时说道。
“They’re getting attacked again by fearmongering, which is really always the last resort when you have nothing to talk about,” he said in an interview with journalist Chris Hedges.
在加利福尼亚州，安吉拉·冈萨雷斯-托雷斯是一名民主社会主义者，正竞选挑战洛杉矶选区的联邦众议员吉米·戈麦斯。而在密歇根州，气候活动家、前DSA成员威廉·劳伦斯正寻求击败共和党联邦众议员汤姆·巴雷特，该席位是全美最具竞争力的席位之一。
In California , Angela Gonzales-Torres is a democratic socialist running to unseat Rep. Jimmy Gomez in the Los Angeles district. And in Michigan, climate activist and former DSA member William Lawrence is looking to defeat GOP Rep. Tom Barrett in one of the nation’s most competitive seats.