查克·舒默对自己将继续领导参议院民主党人充满信心，因为他们在周二以戏剧性方式夺得了参议院多数党地位。但并非所有民主党人都这么确信。
Chuck Schumer is confident he’ll continue leading Senate Democrats after they captured the chamber’s majority in dramatic fashion on Tuesday. Not all Democrats are so sure.
在周六于华盛顿特区举行的一次选后聚会上，两位参议院民主党人——马里兰州的克里斯·范霍伦和密歇根州的埃莉萨·斯洛特金——拒绝支持舒默担任该职务，斯洛特金表示她不会排除自己参选的可能性。出席会议的第三位参议院民主党人、亚利桑那州的马克·凯利参议员表示，他计划支持舒默，但也呼应了要求参议院民主党人“以不同于以往的方式做事”的呼声。
During a post-election gathering Saturday in Washington, DC, two Senate Democrats — Chris Van Hollen of Maryland and Elissa Slotkin of Michigan — declined to back Schumer for the job, and Slotkin said she would not rule out running herself. A third Senate Democrat who appeared at the conference, Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona, said he planned to support Schumer but echoed calls for Senate Democrats “to do things differently than we’ve done before.”
“不应对下一任民主党领袖进行加冕，”范霍伦说。“我非常明确地表示，我们需要在民主党党团内进行讨论，我们需要了解民主党将如何行使这份新的责任和新的权力，在党团未充分理解我们将走向何方之前，任何人都不应获得空白支票。”范霍伦说，他已敦促民主党同僚“暂缓承诺”，直到舒默阐述他的愿景。斯洛特金则表示，在舒默回应他们的担忧之前，民主党人不应给予舒默法定人数——即进行参议院事务所需的最低出席人数。
“There should be no coronation of the next Democratic leader,” Van Hollen said. “I’ve said very clearly that we need to have a discussion in the Democratic caucus, we need to understand what the Democrats are going to do with this new responsibility and these new powers, and nobody should get a blank check without a full understanding of the caucus as to where we’re going to go.”Van Hollen said he has urged Democratic colleagues to “withhold commitments” until Schumer outlines his vision. And Slotkin said Democrats should not give Schumer quorum — the minimum attendance required to conduct Senate business — until he answers their concerns.
舒默仍然是成为多数党领袖的大热门。他没有明确的反对者，只需赢得参议院民主党人的多数支持即可，而在周二的选举后，参议院民主党人的席位有望增至至少54个。
Schumer remains a heavy favorite to become majority leader. He has no declared opposition and needs to win only majority support from Senate Democrats, whose ranks are poised to grow to at least 54 seats after Tuesday’s elections.
但周六的言论显示，即使民主党在中期选举中取得压倒性胜利，也无法掩盖他们长期以来关于谁最适合领导他们的分歧。对于那些关注2028年可能竞选总统的参议院民主党人来说，这场辩论可能会尤为突出，这一群体包括范霍伦、斯洛特金和凯利。
But Saturday’s comments showed how even Democrats’ sweeping midterm victories could not paper over their long-simmering disagreements about who is best to lead them. That debate may be especially elevated among Senate Democrats looking at potentially running for president in 2028, a group that includes Van Hollen, Slotkin and Kelly.
除了回归的参议院民主党人存有保留意见外，几位新当选的新人也发誓不支持舒默担任领袖，或者至少暂时保留支持态度。密西西比州参议院竞选中的民主党人斯科特·科洛姆，其选情仍胶着难分胜负，他对舒默也持不置可否态度，呼吁党内领导层应有更多地理多样性。
In addition to the reservations among the returning Senate Democrats, several incoming freshmen have vowed not to back Schumer for leader or at least withheld their support for now. Scott Colom, the Democrat in a Senate race in Mississippi that remains too close to call, has also been noncommittal on Schumer, calling for more geographic diversity among party leadership.
舒默在周五发布的《纽约时报》专访中表示，他预计不会面临任何反对。
In an interview with The New York Times that published Friday, Schumer said he did not expect to face any opposition.
“我们的党团专注于向前看，”舒默在该报《每日新闻》播客节目中说道，“大家对我们所做的一切都非常满意。”有几位参议院民主党人已经表示，在参议院选举结果好于预期之后，舒默已赢得继续担任领袖的资格。凯利周六也加入了这一行列。
“Our caucus is focused on moving forward,” Schumer told the newspaper’s “The Daily” podcast. “Everyone’s very happy with what we all did.”Several Senate Democrats have already said Schumer has earned his right to return as their leader after the better-than-expected outcomes in Senate races. Kelly added his name to that list Saturday.
“查克为赢得这个多数席位付出了巨大努力，所以我的计划是支持他，”凯利在战后中期峰会“Crooked Con”露面后对记者说。
“Chuck worked really hard to get this majority, so my plan is to support him,” Kelly told reporters after his appearance at the post-midterms summit, Crooked Con.
斯洛特金在会议上则基调截然不同，全天会议期间每当提到舒默的名字，现场都响起嘘声和喝倒彩声。
Slotkin struck a different tone as she addressed the conference, which booed and jeered at the mention of Schumer’s name throughout the day.
“如果他想当多数党领袖，前100天的计划是什么？”她说，“你打算怎么做才能不一样，让民主党把事情理顺？如果你拿不出这个方案，我不会投你的票。”
“If he wants to be majority leader, what is your plan for the first 100 days?” she said. “How are you going to do things differently so that Democrats get their sh*t together? If you can’t produce that, I’m not voting for you.”
当被问及是否会竞争最高职位时，斯洛特金说这是“公开竞争的局面，我认为这些对话正在迅速进行”。“我没有排除任何可能，”她说。
Asked whether she would run for the top job, Slotkin said it was “an open field, and I think those conversations are happening rapidly.”“I’m not ruling anything out,” she said.
范霍伦则表示自己不太可能参选，尽管至少有一位新当选的新人——密歇根州的阿卜杜勒·埃尔-萨耶德——表示可能支持他。范霍伦周六对CNN表示，竞选多数党领袖“不是我的重点”，他正在权衡2028年竞选总统。他说中期选举后没有“直接”收到舒默的消息，但预计未来一周会与他通话。
Van Hollen, for his part, suggested he was unlikely to run, even though at least one incoming freshman — Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan — has said he could support him. Van Hollen told CNN on Saturday that running for majority leader was “not my focus” and that he was instead weighing a 2028 presidential campaign. He said he has not heard “directly” from Schumer since the midterms but expected to speak to him in the coming week.
长期呼吁“新一代领导层”的斯洛特金表示，她希望新当选的众议员新人能效仿她在2018年首次竞选众议员时树立的榜样。当时她承诺不支持南希·佩洛西担任众议院议长——并在2019年1月的议长选举中投了“出席”票，兑现了承诺。
Slotkin, who has long called for a “new generation of leadership,” said she hopes incoming freshmen follow the example she set in her first House run in 2018. She campaigned promising not to support Nancy Pelosi for House speaker — and followed through when she voted present in the speaker’s election in January 2019.
“这些刚在艰难选区获胜的人，我认为，无论是作为领导者还是仅仅作为政治家，如果他们上任第一件事就食言，都会很难办，”她说。
“These people who just won in tough places, I think, will have a hard time, both as leaders but also just as politicians, going back on their word as their first thing that they do,” she said.