部分纽约新当选国会议员并不愿意为哈基姆·杰弗里斯竞选众议院议长背书。
Some of New York’s incoming congressional delegation aren’t sold on backing Hakeem Jeffries for Speaker of the House.
进步派人士、在夏季初选中强势挤进民主党名单的社会主义候选人浪潮的领军人物克莱尔·瓦尔德兹和达里亚利扎·阿维拉·舍瓦利耶，正在呼应左翼阵营对杰弗里斯温和派政治立场和立法风格的担忧。但纽约建制派——尤其是对美国历史上首位黑人众议院议长即将诞生感到振奋的黑人民主党人——向极左派发出了警告。
Progressives like Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier, leaders of a socialist wave of candidates who muscled their way onto Democratic ballots during the summer primaries, are echoing concerns across the left over Jeffries’ moderate politics and legislative approach. But New York’s establishment — particularly Black Democrats thrilled about the potential ascension of the first Black Speaker in US history — has a message for the far left.
“对于那些生活在他的选区、却因权力膨胀而以为能挑战此人的家伙，你们得先过我这关，还得过蒂什·詹姆斯这关，”最近连任的纽约州检察长莱蒂蒂亚·詹姆斯说道。她因与特朗普总统的法律纠葛而拥有全国知名度。
“For those who live in his district and are so drunk on power to think that they’re going to run against this man, you’ve got to get past this neighborhood and Tish James,” said Letitia James, the recently re-elected New York attorney general who enjoys a national profile from her legal entanglements with President Donald Trump.
围护杰弗里斯的行动不仅增强了他在领导层投票前的筹码，也将党内一个较为隐秘的焦虑公之于众。
The effort to circle the wagons around Jeffries has not only strengthened his hand ahead of the leadership vote but also dragged a quieter party anxiety into the open.
杰弗里斯若想最终成功，他及其盟友需要平息外界对其领导能力的潜在质疑——以及他那中间派本能是否真正是民主党应对特朗普政府剩余任期所需的。
For Jeffries to ultimately succeed, he and his allies will need to quell underlying doubts about his capacity to lead — and whether his centrist instincts are what the party actually needs to navigate the remainder of the Trump administration.
在加勒比海阳光下，纽约政界人士周末前往圣胡安参加“我们是未来”年度政策峰会，该峰会聚焦波多黎各的公民事务。忠诚拥护者在会上坚称杰弗里斯能胜任这一挑战。与会领袖向任何妄图发起领导层挑战的人发出了严厉警告。
Loyalists insisted he was up to the challenge under the Caribbean sun, as members of New York’s political community traveled to San Juan over the weekend for the Somos el Futuro conference, an annual policy summit focused on Puerto Rico’s civic concerns. Leaders issued stark warnings to anyone imagining a leadership challenge.
“当他们在社交媒体上攻击他时，我们有责任保护他，哪怕你不保护你自己的国会议员，”布鲁克林区州众议员拉特赖斯·沃克说。
“When they come up against him on social media, we have a responsibility to protect him, even if you don’t protect your own congress member,” Brooklyn Assemblymember Latrice Walker said.
“我不在乎你怎么对待你的人，但要护住我的人。站在他这边，因为我们将需要他站在我们这边，”她接着说。
“I don’t care what you do with yours but protect mine. Have his back because we are going to need him to have ours,” she continued.
在国会山，杰弗里斯（Jeffries）的盟友已着手压制反对声音。Axios在选举前报道称，国会黑人核心小组（Congressional Black Caucus）成员正考虑阻止像阿维拉·切瓦利尔（Avila Chevalier）这样的新成员加入该小组，除非她支持杰弗里斯担任议长。即将上任的俄亥俄州众议员唐·伦纳德（Don Leonard）在社交媒体发帖称，资深议员曾警告他，如果不支持这一议长竞选，他们会让他的日子变成“活地狱”。
And on Capitol Hill, Jeffries allies have looked to shut down opposition. Axios reported ahead of the election that members of the Congressional Black Caucus were considering blocking new members like Avila Chevalier from the group if she didn’t support Jeffries for Speaker. Don Leonard, an incoming congressman from Ohio, said in a social media post that senior lawmakers had warned him they would make his life a “living hell” if he didn’t support the bid.
“这就像电影里看到的那套东西，”伦纳德在视频中说，“但当它真实发生在你身上，而且来自那些真正关心你、为你加油、却期望你穿上队服、做个好团队球员的人时，就完全是另一回事了。”这种支持，加上缺乏有力的挑战者，以及民主党扩大的多数优势，意味着杰弗里斯几乎笃定能拿下议长木槌，而且优势足够宽裕，使他能够无视党内边缘派的要求。
“It’s part of the stuff you see in the movies,” said Leonard in the video. “It’s a whole other thing when it’s in person, by people who actually care about you and are cheering for you but expect you to wear the team jersey and be a good team player.”That backing — paired with the lack of a viable challenger and the padded Democratic majority — means Jeffries is all but assured to secure the Speaker’s gavel, and with margins comfortable enough that he can ice out demands from the party’s fringes.
“你觉得我没把票数锁定吗？”杰弗里斯本周在一场新闻发布会上反问道。
“You don’t think I have the vote nailed down?”Jeffries asked rhetorically during a news conference this week.
但在共和党成功挡下弹劾国防部长皮特·赫格塞思（Pete Hegseth）的努力后，一些紧张情绪已经浮出水面。
But some of the tensions are already bubbling to the surface after Republicans successfully warded off an effort to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
只有一名共和党人——即将离任的肯塔基州众议员托马斯·马西（Thomas Massie），也就是提出弹劾条款的议员——支持这一行动。但最终有11名众议院民主党人缺席，其中一些人在投票进行期间参加了华盛顿周边的招待会和派对。这让一些进步派人士感到沮丧，他们认为杰弗里斯未能让成员出席一场关键投票，而且似乎没有积极与他的 floor 团队合作以确保出席。
Only one Republican — outgoing Congressman Thomas Massie, the Kentucky lawmaker who introduced the articles of impeachment — backed the effort. But 11 House Democrats ultimately were absent, with some attending receptions and parties around Washington as the vote was ongoing. That left some progressives dismayed that Jeffries couldn’t get members to show up for a critical vote and did not seem to be actively working with his floor team to ensure attendance.
目前尚不清楚，让这些缺席的议员到场是否会改变结果。但这一事件重新揭开了旧伤。许多左翼人士反对这位纽约议员接受美国以色列公共事务委员会的捐款、支持向以色列提供军事援助，以及他在今年夏天决定与特朗普的女婿贾里德·库什纳会面。
It’s unclear if turning out the truant lawmakers would have made a difference. But the episode reopened old wounds. Many on the left have objected to the New York lawmaker’s acceptance of donations from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, his support for military aid to Israel, and his decision to meet with Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner over the summer.
就连杰弗里斯的支持者——包括同为纽约人、进步派宠儿的亚历山德里娅·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯——也对这一结果表示不满。
Even Jeffries’ supporters — including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a fellow New Yorker and progressive darling — expressed annoyance with the outcome.
“我不知道是否有人真的有健康问题或什么严重的情况，”她在接受《独立报》采访时说。“所以我愿意为此留出余地，但话虽如此，归根结底我们是来做事的。就像我在餐馆工作时必须打卡上班一样，我们在这里也必须打卡上班、做好我们的工作。”尽管如此，奥卡西奥-科尔特斯和其他进步派人士，包括纽约州的布拉德·兰德和纽约市长佐赫兰·马姆达尼，一直坚定支持杰弗里斯出任议长，同时表示希望他能采纳他们的政策优先事项。
“I don’t know if anyone had any real health issues or anything significant,” she said in an interview with the Independent. “So I want to leave room for that but, that being said, at the end of the day we’re here to do a job. And the same way I had to clock in when I worked at a restaurant, we’ve got to clock in and do our work here.”Still, Ocasio-Cortez and other progressives, including New York’s Brad Lander and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, have been resolute in backing Jeffries for Speaker, while saying they hope he incorporates their policy priorities.
“这场竞争只有一位候选人——哈基姆·杰弗里斯，”奥卡西奥-科尔特斯本周被问及是否会支持杰弗里斯时说。“我认为，大家更关心的是这种领导意味着什么、承诺了什么、力求实现什么，”她说。
“There is one candidate in this race – Hakeem Jeffries,” Ocasio-Cortez said this week, when asked if she’ll back Jeffries. “I think that everyone is far more concerned about what that leadership means, what it is promising, what it seeks to deliver,” she said.
杰弗里斯的辩护者认为，阻止他出任议长的努力充其量是对种族问题不敏感——这是一些年轻、缺乏政治经验的活动人士所为，他们的队伍来自美国民主社会主义者不断壮大的成员。
Jeffries’ defenders have suggested efforts to deny him the speakership are, at best, racially insensitive – the work of young, politically inexperienced activists whose ranks come from the growing membership of the Democratic Socialists of America.
在6月的国会初选中，巴尔迪兹赢得了一场激烈角逐，接替布鲁克林众议员妮迪亚·贝拉斯克斯，当杰弗里斯的图像出现在电视屏幕上时，她胜选派对上的支持者齐声高喊“下一个就是你！”
During the June congressional primaries, when Valdez won a hotly contested race to succeed Brooklyn Representative Nydia Velazquez, supporters at her victory party broke out into a chant of “You’re next!” when an image of Jeffries appeared on a television screen.
杰弗里斯在随后接受CNN采访时说：“其他人也注意到了，让我觉得很有意思的是，人群中几乎没有任何多样性。”
“It was very interesting to me, as observed by others, that there was almost zero diversity in that crowd,” Jeffries said in a subsequent CNN interview.
对杰弗里斯来说，无视DSA会更容易，因为民主党上周赢得的多数优势很大。新议员的涌入——许多人来自摇摆选区和摇摆州——使他能够边缘化一个规模虽小但声音很大的派系，即到目前为止公开拒绝承诺支持他担任议长的大约10名众议院民主党人。
Dismissing the DSA will be easier for Jeffries because of the size of the majority Democrats won last week. The influx of new members — many from swing districts and states — allows him to sideline the small but vocal faction of roughly 10 House Democrats who’ve so far publicly refused to commit to supporting him for speaker.
似乎也没有出现严肃的挑战。最近几天，出现了一场推举马萨诸塞州众议员阿亚娜·普雷斯利竞选议长的努力。
Nor does there appear to be a serious challenge. In recent days an effort to draft Massachusetts Representative Ayanna Pressley to run for Speaker has emerged.
哈桑·皮克在最近的一次直播中表示，作为第一位黑人议长，普雷斯利会比杰弗里斯是更好的选择，而Change.org上一份推举她作为众议院议长替代候选人的请愿书已获得超过110万签名。但普雷斯利——进步派议员“小队”的成员——需要在温和派中取得重大进展，而到目前为止，她还没有发表任何暗示她正在竞选的言论。
Hasan Piker suggested in a recent stream that Pressley would make a better choice for the first Black Speaker than Jeffries, and a Change.org petition pushing her as an alternative candidate for house Speaker had totaled more than 1.1 million signatures. But Pressley - a member of the “Squad” of progressive lawmakers — would need to make serious inroads with moderates, and so far had not made any comments to suggest she’s running.
这是同为纽约人的查克·舒默未必享有的奢侈。这位参议院民主党领袖正在推进他的领导权竞选，尽管左翼对他支持以色列和建制派作风有类似的担忧——外加对他年龄的额外担忧。虽然舒默也可能在最终的投票中获胜，但最近几天他的支持基础似乎更加分裂。像马里兰州参议员克里斯·范霍伦这样的严肃挑战者已表示他们正在考虑参选。
It’s a luxury not necessarily enjoyed by fellow New Yorker Chuck Schumer. The Democratic Leader in the Senate is forging ahead with his leadership bid despite similar concerns from the left over his support for Israel and institutionalist style — plus additional worries about his age. While Schumer is also likely to prevail in the eventual vote, his foundation of support has appeared more fractured in recent days. Serious challengers, like Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, have signaled they’re entertaining a bid.
但在众议院，瓦尔迪兹和阿维拉·谢瓦利埃都没有表示他们会支持替代候选人，这表明可能还有和解的空间。
But in the House, neither Valdez nor Avila Chevalier has said they would support an alternative candidate instead, suggesting there could be room for reconciliation.
当记者在圣胡安问杰弗里斯如何看待阿维拉·谢瓦利埃和瓦尔迪兹拒绝做出承诺时，他没有直接回应，但确实提到了他的庞大党团规模。
Jeffries didn’t respond directly when reporters in San Juan asked him what he thought about Avila Chevalier and Valdez’s refusal to commit, but he did reference the size of his massive conference.
杰弗里斯说：“我们回来后，会就众议院民主党党团的未来领导层进行讨论。”他说：“我上次查看时，我们已有255名新成员，而且还在增加。”
“We’ll have conversations about future leadership in the House Democratic Caucus upon our return,” Jeffries said. “Last time I checked, we were at 255 new members and counting,” he said.
纽约市民主社会主义者美国分会联合主席古斯塔沃·戈迪略表示，他和新当选的、得到民主社会主义者美国分会支持的国会候选人仍在讨论他们计划在议长选举中如何投票。但戈迪略说，民主社会主义者美国分会将继续公开向杰弗里斯施压，要求他在那些帮助他们赢得选举的问题上采取行动。
New York City DSA Co-chair Gustavo Gordillo said he and newly-elected DSA-backed congressional candidates were still talking about how they planned to vote in the speaker’s election. But the DSA will continue to be vocal in pressing Jeffries on the issues that won them their races, Gordillo said.
戈迪略说：“我认为他需要承认，我们正在向国会输送这个国家历史上规模最大的社会主义者阵营，而这些代表得到了数百万希望实现我们议程的选民的支持。”
“I think that he needs to acknowledge that we’re sending the largest bloc of socialists to Congress in this country’s history, and those representatives are backed by millions of voters who wanted our agenda,” Gordillo said.