华盛顿——在这个中期选举季，关于社会主义的讨论很多，但真正与民主党极左翼立场一致、或自认属于美国民主社会主义者组织的国会候选人只有寥寥数人。美国中期选举提前投票 turnout 有望超过上届数字。这些候选人大多来自少数几个民主党票仓，其中几人在竞争激烈的初选中击败了资深现任议员。预计他们将在11月3日的选举中获胜，并加入众议院已有的两名民主社会主义者之列。
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.US midterm election early voting turnout on track to eclipse last time's numbersMost 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.
这些进步派新人给民主党带来了新的活力，同时也可能在唐纳德·特朗普总统任期的最后两年给党内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。尽管共和党人已就社会主义敲响警钟，但这种警告可能已不像从前那样有杀伤力，尤其是在民主党人中。这些候选人并非国家政治舞台上的首批民主社会主义者。
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. 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.
纽约市长佐赫兰·马姆达尼的当选、纽约州民主党众议员亚历山德里娅·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯的崛起，以及佛蒙特州参议员伯尼·桑德斯的持久影响力，都反映出美国政治思潮的转变。以下是可能进入国会的一些候选人。达里亚利萨·阿维拉·切瓦利耶，纽约州。切瓦利耶曾是社区组织者，也是马姆达尼市长竞选团队的现场工作人员，她在曼哈顿上城和布朗克斯区意外击败了长期任职的众议员阿德里亚诺·埃斯帕伊拉特。
作为政治新人，切瓦利耶去年正式成为民主社会主义者，她的竞选核心主张是政府——以及她的对手——抛弃了工人阶级。
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. Darializa Avila Chevalier, New YorkChevalier 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.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.
她主张国会需要新面孔来挑战现状。“我认为人们真的厌倦了似乎更听命于捐赠者的政治，”她在赢得初选前几个小时告诉美联社记者。谢瓦利耶曾帮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抗议以色列总理内塔尼亚胡演讲时被捕。
She argued Congress needs fresh faces to challenge the status quo.“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. 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.
梅拉特·基罗斯，科罗拉多州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年的联邦众议员戴安娜·德盖特，赢得丹佛地区的席位。
Melat Kiros, ColoradoKiros, 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，在马里兰州华盛顿学院获得政治学和经济学学士学位，在圣母大学获得法学学位。她在竞选国会议员前曾在纽约市担任律师，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.
基罗斯站在一块写着“权力归人民”的标语下发表胜选演讲，阐述了她的计划：向“唐纳德·特朗普和寡头政治”开战、废除美国移民及海关执法局、通过“全民医保”法案、结束“巴勒斯坦种族灭绝”。“这是一场运动，”基罗斯说。“我们才刚刚开始。”多诺万·麦金尼，密歇根州34岁的麦金尼在民主党初选中克服巨大的经费劣势，击败联邦众议员什里·塔内达尔，赢得底特律地区的国会选区席位。
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.”Donavan McKinney, MichiganThe 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”、将金钱赶出政治。
“我们的党派不能再继续侍奉两个主子了，”麦金尼8月在一次活动上说。
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.
“我们要推动我们的政党，要么为劳动人民而战，要么继续为企业寡头而战。”麦金尼自称民主社会主义者，并获得了美国民主社会主义者组织的背书。克里斯·拉布，宾夕法尼亚州拉布在宾夕法尼亚州众议院任职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倾向民主党的费城选区，赢得了四人初选的胜利。
“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. Chris Rabb, PennsylvaniaRabb 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组织费城分会，但他追溯自己参与一系列进步团体和事业的经历。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.
“我相信民主党更倾听资助它的人的声音，而不是真正出来投票的人的声音，”他说。“结果，最贴近痛苦的人和最贴近钱袋子的人之间，存在这种巨大的脱节。”
He ran on progressive issues in the primary, with an emphasis on the corrosive role of money in politics.“I believe that the Democratic Party listens more to people who fund it than the people who actually come out to vote," he said.
他支持废除美国移民和海关执法局，实施数据中心建设暂停令，并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”，以及扩大联邦最低工资法，取消较低的小费最低工资标准，并覆盖零工工人等独立承包商。克莱尔·瓦尔德兹，纽约州瓦尔德兹是一名州议员，是马姆达尼支持的进步派名单中的一员，参与今年纽约州的选举。她击败了即将卸任的众议员精心挑选的继任者。
"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.
在布鲁克林和皇后区一个广阔且已完成绅士化的选区的民主党初选中，瓦尔德兹击败了尼迪亚·贝拉斯克斯，鉴于该选区深蓝的政治倾向，预计她将在今秋顺利进入国会。她将自己定位为马姆达尼在华盛顿的推动者，并大力以负担得起的生活和代际更替为竞选纲领，承诺将把对抗特朗普的斗争带入国会，并从国会为工人阶级发声。
Claire Valdez, New YorkValdez 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.
作为纽约市民主社会主义者组织（DSA）分会自2019年以来的成员，瓦尔德兹表示，她希望证明马姆达尼当选引发的关注并非昙花一现，而预示着民主党内部正在兴起一股民粹主义转变。“目前，民众对党领导层的运作方式以及没有足够强硬地对抗特朗普，存在真正的大规模不满，”瓦尔德兹今年早些时候告诉美联社。
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.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.“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.n in a landslide’: Trump's message to Republicans ahead of US midtermsOther progressive candidates to watchSeveral other candidates align with the party's left wing but are not necessarily DSA members.
“将以压倒性优势获胜”：特朗普在美中期选举前向共和党传递信息其他值得关注的进步派候选人还有其他几位候选人与该党左翼立场一致，但不一定是民主社会主义者成员。此外，一些民主社会主义候选人仍陷入胶着的选战中。亚当·哈马维是一名陆军老兵和医学博士，在新泽西州一个稳固的民主党选区参选，他表示自己不是民主社会主义者成员，但会与支持将企业资金排除在政治之外的人结盟。
Additionally, some democratic socialist candidates remain locked in tight election contests. 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.“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.
“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。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，正竞选击败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、前民主社会主义者成员威廉·劳伦斯正试图在全美最具竞争力的席位之一中击败共和党联邦众议员汤姆·巴雷特。
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.