参议院进步派关键人物克里斯·范·霍伦周三表示，民主党在同意支持查克·舒默或任何其他有意担任参议院多数党领袖的人之前，应当要求制定一项针对华盛顿根深蒂固的企业利益集团的“大胆议程”。
Key Senate progressive Chris Van Hollen said Wednesday that Democrats should demand a “bold agenda” targeting entrenched corporate interests in Washington before agreeing to back Chuck Schumer or any other aspiring Senate majority leader.
这位马里兰州民主党人的言论发表于民主党在全国范围内取得决定性胜利，并在众议院和参议院都获得相当大多数席位仅几个小时之后，表明该党左翼希望有更具进取心的领导人，致力于经济民粹主义纲领。
The Maryland Democrat’s comments, coming just hours after Democrats won decisive victories across the country and secured sizable majorities in both the House and Senate, signal that those on the party’s left flank want more aggressive leaders committed to an economic populist platform.
“在进行那次谈话之前，没有人应该承诺支持任何人担任下一任民主党领袖，”范·霍伦周三在一次采访中说。“我们需要承诺。”参议院长期的民主党领袖舒默周三表示，他有信心将继续担任该党的最高职务。到目前为止，还没有人出现挑战他担任该职务。
“No one should be committing to anybody as the next Democratic leader without having that conversation,” Van Hollen said in an interview Wednesday. “We need commitments.”Schumer, the Senate’s long-time Democratic leader, expressed confidence Wednesday that he would retain the party’s top post. So far, no one has emerged to challenge him for the job.
“问题不在于我。我将连任多数党领袖，但问题在于关注美国人民及其所想要的东西，”舒默周三在华盛顿对记者说，当时被问及他将如何对待那些表示不会支持他担任最高职务的候选人。
“The issue is not me. I’ll be reelected as majority leader, but the issue is focusing on the American people and what they want,” Schumer told reporters Wednesday in Washington when asked about how he would deal with candidates who said they wouldn’t back him for the top job.
民主党至少翻转了七个美国参议院席位，并可能在阿拉斯加和密西西比州再赢得两个，这是一场历史性的溃败，也是对总统唐纳德·特朗普第二任期的斥责。
Democrats flipped at least seven US Senate sets and could win two more in Alaska and Mississippi, a historic rout and a rebuke to President Donald Trump’s second term.
曾担任参议院和众议院竞选委员会主席的范·霍伦将这些胜利（包括在几个共和党大本营取得的胜利）归功于选民站出来“保护他们的民主和他们的钱包”，而非华盛顿民主党人制定的宏大战略。
Van Hollen, a former Senate and House party campaign chair, credited the victories, including several in Republican strongholds, to voters rising up “to protect their democracy and their pocketbooks” rather than to a grand strategy devised by Washington Democrats.
范·霍伦表示，他正在积极“试探”2028年总统竞选的可能性，他广泛奔波为民主党候选人竞选，其中一些人呼吁华盛顿出现新领导层，并表示不会投票支持舒默。范·霍伦说，该党需要反映新一批民主党人及其支持者的更具民粹主义的愿景。
Van Hollen, who said he is actively “kicking the tires” on a 2028 presidential bid, traveled extensively to campaign for Democrats, some of whom have called for new leadership in Washington and said they won’t vote for Schumer. The party, Van Hollen said, needs to reflect the more populist vision of the incoming class of Democrats, and the voters who supported them.
“劳动人民被欺压太久了，我们需要重塑一个为亿万富翁和大公司服务的经济体系，”他说。“现在不是渐进改革的时候，是时候推进一项非常大胆的‘餐桌议程’了。”在舒默任期内分裂民主党的问题中，有一个是党内建制派在党内初选中支持落败者，例如在密歇根州支持黑莉·斯蒂文斯，而范·霍伦和其他进步派人士支持的是阿卜杜勒·埃尔赛义德。
“Working people have been screwed for way too long and we need to unrig an economy that’s been built to serve billionaires and big corporations,” he said. “It’s not a time for incrementalism. It’s a time to move forward a very bold kitchen table agenda.”Among the issues that have split Democrats on Schumer’s watch was the party establishment endorsing losers in party primaries like Haley Stevens in Michigan over Abdul El-Sayed, who Van Hollen and other progressives endorsed.