克里斯·拉森支持清洁能源、中间派民主党人和人工智能安全——并在此过程中与两党都发生了冲突。
Chris Larsen is backing clean energy, centrist Democrats and AI safety — and picking fights with both parties along the way.
作者：蒂莫西·卡马 克里斯·拉森正在赢得共和党敌人，并让民主党人感到困惑，因为他向全国各地的关键竞选和投票倡议投入了数千万美元。
By Timothy Cama Chris Larsen is earning Republican enemies and confounding Democrats as he pours tens of millions of dollars into critical races and ballot initiatives across the country.
这位亿万富翁本选举周期的政治捐款增加了两倍，因为他将关注重点从对抗加密货币行业的鹰派扩展到支持气候倡导者和对抗公共部门工会。
The billionaire’s political donations tripled this election cycle as he expanded this focus from fighting crypto-industry hawks into boosting climate advocates and fighting public-sector unions.
《政客》对竞选财务记录的分析显示，自去年初以来，拉森已向政治候选人和事业捐赠了超过6000万美元。这比他在2024年周期的支出多出两倍多，是2022年金额的24倍。
Larsen has given more than $60 million to political candidates and causes since the beginning of last year, a POLITICO analysis of campaign finance records shows. That’s more than three times the amount he spent in the 2024 cycle and 24 times the 2022 amount.
埃隆·马斯克和理查德·尤林等超级大额捐赠者亿万富翁今年给共和党带来了巨大的筹款优势。为了在未来的竞选中保持竞争力，民主党可能需要争取像拉森这样口袋深、政治立场与其相符的人。
Megadonor billionaires like Elon Musk and Richard Uihlein gave Republicans a huge fundraising advantage over Democrats this year. To stay competitive in races to come, Democrats may need to court people with deep pockets who align with their politics, such as Larsen.
拉森有支持民主党人和执法部门的历史，但现在他已成为一个惩罚得罪太阳能行业的立法者的超级政治行动委员会的最大捐赠者。他还向可能遏制政府雇员工会的加州温和派人士投入巨资，并对抗该州拟议的亿万富翁税。
Larsen has a history of boosting Democrats and law enforcement, but now he’s become the top contributor to a super political action committee that punishes lawmakers for getting on the solar industry’s wrong side. He has also directed big sums to California moderates who could rein in government worker unions and to combat the state’s proposed billionaire tax.
由于他在打击想要严厉监管加密货币的立法者、反对亿万富翁税以及反对公共部门工会方面的工作，拉森仍不是民主党领导层的可靠盟友。相反，他正试图按其温和派形象重塑该党。
Larsen still isn’t a reliable ally to Democratic Party leaders, owing to his work against lawmakers who want to crack down on cryptocurrency, his advocacy against the billionaire tax and the public-sector union opposition. Instead, he’s looking to shape the party in his moderate image.
“他在赢得的东西是相关性，毫无疑问。而且毫无疑问，他在加州政治中为自己买来了相关性，”加州民主党策略师克里斯·莱曼说。
“The thing he is winning is relevance, bar none. And there's no question that he has bought himself relevance in California politics,” said Chris Lehman, a California Democratic strategist.
旧金山本地人、工会工人之子拉森曾因银行贷款而苦恼，如今担任加密货币公司 Ripple Labs Inc. 董事长，这家不断壮大的金融科技企业向唐纳德·特朗普总统的就职基金捐赠了数百万美元。
A San Francisco native and son of a union worker who struggled with bank loans, Larsen now chairs crypto company Ripple Labs Inc., a growing fintech company that gave millions of dollars to President Donald Trump’s inaugural fund.
新敌人，寥寥好友 尽管 Ripple 已与特朗普关系亲密，但拉森个人的政治活动却让他在“让美国再次伟大”（MAGA）保守派中树起了新敌人。
New enemies, few friends While Ripple has cozied up to Trump, Larsen’s separate political activities earned him new foes among MAGA conservatives.
众议员劳伦·博伯特（共和党-科罗拉多州）是“投资明天联盟”这一超级政治行动委员会（超级 PAC）在大选中的攻击目标，拉森一直是该超级 PAC 的主要资金提供者。博伯特上周在客串主持《马特·盖茨秀》时专门针对该 PAC 发表了一段言论，称保守派之所以成为攻击对象，“是因为众议院自由核心小组扼杀了‘绿色新骗局’”。她点名拉森是“一位旧金山加密货币亿万富翁”，在卡玛拉·哈里斯的总统竞选中花费了 1200 万美元。
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), a general election target of the Invest in Tomorrow Coalition, a super PAC for which Larsen has been the main funder, dedicated a segment last week when she guest hosted “The Matt Gaetz Show” to the PAC, saying conservatives are being targeted “because the House Freedom Caucus killed the Green New Scam.”She singled out Larsen as “a San Francisco crypto billionaire” who spent $12 million backing Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign.
众议员维多利亚·斯帕茨（共和党-印第安纳州）是该 PAC 的另一攻击目标，她上周发布视频宣称“一位旧金山亿万富翁正投入数百万资金为 J.D. 福特买下这个席位”，福特是她的民主党对手，视频中并未点名拉森。
Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.), another target of the PAC, put out a video last week declaring “a San Francisco billionaire is pouring in millions to buy this seat” for J.D. Ford, her Democratic opponent, though it doesn’t name Larsen.
众议员安迪·奥格尔斯（共和党-田纳西州）称他为“加利福尼亚的某个自由派白痴亿万富翁”，企图维护个人利益，不久之后奥格尔斯在连任竞选中失利，该 PAC 在该选战中投入了大量资金。
Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) called him “some libtard in California that's a billionaire,” out to protect his personal interests, shortly before he lost reelection in a race that the PAC spent significant money on.
拉森为推动清洁能源所做的支出在民主党内获得广泛支持，即便左翼并不认同他做出的每一个决定。
Larsen’s spending to promote clean energy is getting broad support among Democrats, even if the left doesn’t agree with every decision he makes.
“投资明天联盟”主席、前民主党全国委员会成员 RL·米勒谈到拉森向该联盟的捐款时表示：“我非常高兴他资助这个组织。”
“I’m really happy that he’s funding that group,” RL Miller, president of Climate Hawks Vote and a former Democratic National Committee member, said of Larsen’s contributions to the Invest in Tomorrow Coalition.
米勒同时也严厉批评拉森向加利福尼亚州温和派民主党立法候选人捐款助其在初选中获胜，导致一些进步派希望之星出局。“我不知道他到底怎么了，”她说。
Miller is also sharply critical of Larsen for his contributions to moderate California Democratic legislative candidates in their primaries, which knocked out some progressive hopefuls. “I don’t know what his problem is,” she said.
拉森通过其首席气候顾问迈克尔·布鲁内拒绝了《政治》（POLITICO）的采访请求。布鲁内未回应采访请求，拉森的政治顾问亚历克斯·图克也拒绝发言。但他在近几个月接受了多次采访，透露了一些其政治策略的端倪。
Larsen, via his main climate adviser Michael Brune, declined an interview request from POLITICO. Brune did not respond to a request to speak, and Alex Tourk, a political adviser to Larsen, also declined to speak. But he’s given a number of interviews in recent months that shed some light on his political strategy.
他在9月接受《与卡拉·斯威舍对谈》（On with Kara Swisher）节目采访时表示：“气候和清洁能源是我‘花费大部分时间’关注的领域。‘气候圈的人，我们失败了。我们需要重启，’他说。‘我们一直在为太多昂贵的事物辩护——绿色溢价。这对劳动者不起作用，这也是你遭遇反弹的原因。’”拉森具体支持太阳能、大气二氧化碳去除技术以及为内燃机开发可持续燃料。
Climate and clean energy are what “I spend most of my time on,” he said in a September interview on “On with Kara Swisher.”“The climate folks, we failed. We need a reset,” he said. “We’ve been advocating for too many things that are expensive — the green premium. And that’s not working for working people, and that’s why you got the backlash.”Larsen specifically supports solar, atmospheric carbon dioxide removal and developing sustainable fuels for combustion engines.
3月，拉森公开启动了“清洁断裂基金”（Clean Break Fund），这是一个慈善、投资和政治项目，旨在推进其气候和清洁能源目标，由布鲁内领导。布鲁内此前于2010年至2021年担任“塞拉俱乐部”（Sierra Club）执行董事，该组织是美国按会员数量计算最大的环保团体。布鲁内表示，他自2022年起一直在幕后为拉森工作。
In March, Larsen publicly launched Clean Break Fund, a philanthropic, investment and political project to further his climate and clean energy goals, led by Brune. Brune was previously executive director of the Sierra Club, the nation’s largest environmental group by membership, from 2010 to 2021. Brune said he had been working for Larsen behind the scenes since 2022.
布鲁内在3月表示：“这反映了我们所处的时刻，一切皆有可能。显然气候威胁在加剧，我们的民主面临的压力前所未有。”
“It's a reflection of the moment that we're in, where anything's possible. Clearly the climate threat is increasing and there are more pressures on our democracy than ever before,” Brune said in March.
“但同样真实的是，清洁能源比以往任何时候都便宜，在几乎所有地方都比化石燃料便宜，”他说。“政治风向正在转变。有许多保守派关心气候变化，却在共和党领导层找不到发声渠道。”布鲁内协助发起了“投资明天联盟”（Invest in Tomorrow Coalition），成员包括一批清洁能源高管和投资者，拉森为该联盟1290万美元资金提供了600万美元。
“But it's also true that clean energy is cheaper than ever before, cheaper than fossil fuels almost everywhere,” he said. “And political winds are shifting. There are a lot of conservatives who care about climate change and don't find a voice in Republican Party leadership.”Brune helped launch the Invest in Tomorrow Coalition with a group of clean energy executives and investors, and Larsen has provided $6 million of its $12.9 million.
“清洁能源行业的政治力量只会变得更强、更具威慑力，”他在奥格尔斯落选后的8月表示。“所以我们的希望是，清洁能源能重回两党共识议题，或许成为所有美国人都能达成一致为数不多的议题之一。但在达成之前，我们必须继续我们的‘报复之旅’，再击败几名投错票的议员。”拉森5月在Latitude Media的一次活动上表示，该超级政治行动委员会（PAC）正在参与“政治战争”。
“The clean energy industry's political muscle is only getting stronger and more intimidating,” he said in August after Ogles’ defeat. “So our hope here is that clean energy will go back to being a bipartisan issue, and maybe one of the few issues that all Americans can agree on. But before we get there, we've got to continue our retribution tour and take out a few more members who have voted the wrong way.”Larsen said at a Latitude Media event in May that the PAC is participating in “political warfare.”
他说，它正在汲取Fairshake的经验教训，Fairshake是他协助发起的一个超级政治行动委员会，旨在打击加密货币行业的对手。与“投资明天联盟”一样，Fairshake的广告聚焦于选民关心的热点议题，而非发动攻击的那个行业自身的议题。
He said it’s taking lessons from Fairshake, a super PAC he helped launch to attack foes of the crypto industry. Like the Invest in Tomorrow Coalition, Fairshake’s advertising focused on hot-button issues that voters would care about, not the issues of the industry behind the attacks.
“你在政治斗争中最不希望看到的是，对手认为你很软弱，”他说。
“The worst that you want in a political fight is for your opponents to think you’re weak,” he said.
“投资明天联盟”还在导致共和党众议员奇普·罗伊（得克萨斯州）和拉尔夫·诺曼（北卡罗来纳州）落选的竞选中进行了支出。这三名攻击目标都是去年成功推动在《一项宏伟美好法案》中迅速终止风能和太阳能税收优惠的领军人物。
The Invest in Tomorrow Coalition has also spent in races that knocked out GOP Reps. Chip Roy of Texas and Ralph Norman of North Carolina. All three of those targets were among the leaders in the successful push last year to quickly end wind and solar tax incentives in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
它在罗德岛州州长丹·麦基（民主党人）连任竞选失败的竞选中进行了反对支出，支持了众议员玛丽安内特·米勒-米克斯（共和党-爱荷华州）的初选，并在15场众议院竞选中反对共和党人。
It spent against Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee (D) in his unsuccessful reelection bid, supported Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa) in her primary and opposed Republicans in 15 House races.
加州梦想 拉森已成为加利福尼亚州政坛的主要参与者。他向对抗“金州”亿万富翁税提案的行动捐赠了数百万美元，他是支持温和派民主党人竞选州议会的一个超级政治行动委员会的主要资金提供者，并且全力支持即将卸任的州长加文·纽森（民主党人）可能的总统竞选。
California Dreams Larsen has become a major player in California politics. He’s given millions to efforts to fight the Golden State’s billionaire tax proposal, he’s the main funder of a super PAC supporting moderate Democrats for the state Legislature, and he’s all in on outgoing Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) potential presidential bid.
本选举周期，拉森的其他主要优先事项是让温和派民主党人进入加州议会，以及遏制人工智能的安全威胁。
Larsen’s other major priorities this election cycle are to get moderate Democrats into office in the California Legislature and to rein in artificial intelligence’s safety threats.
“我们在寻找解决问题的人。我甚至不喜欢用‘温和派’这个词。听起来就像他们什么也不做，”拉森对KQED电台谈及“发展加州”组织时表示，该组织支持中间派候选人，特别旨在削弱公共部门工会的力量。
“We’re looking for problem solvers. I don’t even like to use the word ‘moderate.’ It just sounds like they’re not doing much,” Larsen told KQED about Grow California, which is backing centrists, with a particular eye toward weakening public-sector unions.
“一直以来，一小撮人占据了过大的主导地位，而他们并未专注于我们必须解决的关键问题，”他谈到政府雇员工会时说道。他向“发展加州”捐赠了该组织2000万美元资金中的1500万美元。
“There’s just been too much dominance by a small group of folks, and they’ve not been focused on the key problems we have to solve,” he said of government workers’ unions. He’s given Grow California $15 million of its $20 million.
今年，他向支持三位民主党联邦众议员候选人的超级政治行动委员会捐赠了超过450万美元，原因是这些候选人在人工智能安全方面的立场：纽约州的亚历克斯·博雷斯、科罗拉多州的曼尼·鲁蒂内尔和加利福尼亚州的斯科特·维纳。
He gave more than $4.5 million this year to super PACs supporting a trio of Democratic House candidates over their AI safety views: Alex Bores of New York, Manny Rutinel of Colorado and Scott Wiener of California.
尽管拥有科技界背景，拉森在人工智能安全问题上的推动却使他支持了一个主要的进步派立场——暂停建设数据中心，但这并非出于环境或社区方面的担忧。
Despite his tech ties, Larsen’s AI safety push has led him to back a major progressive position — a moratorium on data centers, but not because of environmental or community concerns.
“我认为我们现在的处境是：在制定出该死的法规之前，关闭所有数据中心。正在发生的事情简直疯狂，”他对KQED电台表示，指的是近期由人工智能代理发动的多起高调黑客攻击事件。他后来澄清，他仅希望叫停新建项目。
“Where I believe where we are now is: shut down all the data centers until we get goddamn regulations. This is insane what's going on,” he told KQED, referring to recent high-profile hacking incidents by AI agents. He later clarified that he only wants to stop new construction.
“这关乎的不是中国赢还是美国赢。而是人类战胜这项外来技术，”拉森说道。
“It’s not about China or the U.S. winning. It’s about humans winning over this alien technology,” Larsen said.