丹佛，11月14日电 刚在中期选举中大获全胜，民主党人本周在丹佛聚首，大家都想给选民减轻高昂生活成本的压力，但在如何实现这一目标、从胜利中汲取何种教训，以及应以何种姿态对待唐纳德·特朗普总统等问题上，党内意见分歧明显。
DENVER, Nov 14 - Fresh from a midterm election landslide, Democrats met in Denver this week united in wanting to deliver voters relief from high costs, but split over how to achieve that, what lessons to draw from their victory and how combative they should be toward President Donald Trump.
尽管11月3日击溃共和党后气氛喜庆，但温和派与躁动不安的进步派之间的张力，在党内胜选后首次大型聚会上浮出水面，与会者担心民主党可能会浪费选民给予的机会。
Despite the celebratory mood after the November 3 rout of Republicans, tensions between moderates and a restive progressive wing surfaced at the party’s first major gathering since its victory, along with anxiety that the party could squander the opportunity voters had handed it.
这次聚会早早展示了定义党的未来之战：潜在的2028年总统候选人和资深领袖们辩论如何将选举胜利转化为执政议程，同时跨越长期存在的意识形态和代际鸿沟。
The gathering offered an early glimpse of the battle to define its future as prospective 2028 presidential candidates and senior leaders debated how to turn electoral success into a governing agenda while navigating long-standing ideological and generational divides.
会议由“多数派民主党人”主办，该组织主张推举年轻党魁、反对左翼激进主义，为目前正在进行的角力提供了论坛——民主党人正在争论从中期选胜中该汲取何种教训，并开始寻觅2028年竞逐白宫的旗手。
The conference, hosted by Majority Democrats, a group that advocates for younger party leaders and against left-wing activism, offered a forum for the jockeying now underway as Democrats debate what lessons to draw from their midterm win and begin the search for a 2028 White House standard-bearer.
发言人在是否拥抱更大胆的进步议程、还是向中间靠拢的问题上分歧明显，暴露出在降低食品、医疗和住房成本、以及如何与仍拥有两年否决权的特朗普合作等问题上的不同路径。
Speakers disagreed over whether to embrace a bolder progressive agenda or tack toward the center, exposing competing approaches to lowering food, healthcare and housing costs, while working alongside Trump, who retains veto power for two more years.
加利福尼亚州联邦众议员罗·卡纳（Ro Khanna）是一位进步派人士，也是潜在总统候选人，他敦促民主党停止追逐政治中间立场，拥抱更大胆的议程，包括全民医保、财富税、25美元联邦最低时薪、大幅削减五角大楼预算，以及废除美国移民与海关执法局。
California Representative Ro Khanna, a progressive and potential presidential candidate, urged Democrats to stop chasing the political center and embrace a bolder agenda, including universal healthcare, a wealth tax, a $25 federal minimum wage, deep Pentagon cuts and abolishing US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
相比之下，宾夕法尼亚州州长乔什·夏皮罗（Josh Shapiro）是一位温和派，也是另一位潜在的2028年竞逐者，他主张党派应超越意识形态的“纯度测试”，称选民“根本不在乎”这类辩论，而关心民主党能否交出实绩。
By contrast, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, a moderate and another potential 2028 contender, argued the party should move beyond ideological litmus tests, saying voters "don’t give a damn" about such debates and care instead about whether Democrats can deliver results.
民主党胜选的广度使得温和派和进步派都能主张选民认可了他们对该党未来的愿景。
The breadth of the Democratic victories has allowed moderates and progressives to argue that voters have endorsed their vision for the party’s future.
“由于民主党胜选范围如此之广，囊括了中间派、南方民主党人以及更多进步派和左翼民主党人，因此出现大辩论是意料之中的事，”民主党策略师伊莱恩·卡马克对路透社表示。
"It’s to be expected that there will be a big debate because the Democratic victory was so broad it swept in centrists, southern Democrats and more progressive and left-wing Democrats," Democratic strategist Elaine Kamarck told Reuters.
特朗普保留着重要的行政权力，足以阻挠民主党大部分议程，这使得该党降低成本的努力变得复杂，而降低成本是选民让民主党控制国会要解决的核心问题。
Trump retains significant executive authority to block much of the Democrats’ agenda, complicating the party’s efforts to lower costs, the central issue voters gave Democrats control of Congress to fix.
预计民主党将在联邦众议院占据至少255个席位，共和党占169个，尚有12个选区结果未定。在参议院，席位分布将至少为民主党55席对共和党44席，待阿拉斯加州计票完成后，民主党可能再增一席。与特朗普合作还是对抗？
Democrats are projected to hold at least 255 seats to Republicans’ 169 in the US House, with 12 contests still undecided. In the Senate, the breakdown will be at least 55-44, with Democrats possibly gaining one more seat in Alaska when vote-counting is completed. WORK WITH TRUMP OR FIGHT HIM?
丹佛会议上最引人注目的辩论之一，集中在特朗普仍在白宫的情况下如何执政。
One of the most striking debates in Denver centered on how to govern with Trump still in the White House.
詹姆斯·塔拉里科是自1988年以来首位当选联邦参议员的德克萨斯州民主党人，他敦促民主党与特朗普合作。
James Talarico, the first Democrat elected to the US Senate from Texas since 1988, urged Democrats to work with Trump.
“建议我们把他总统任期的最后两年，变成美国历史上任何总统任期中最富有成效的两年，”塔拉里科说，引来稀疏的掌声。“我们厌倦了被对立起来。”他在爱荷华州当选州长罗布·桑德身上找到了盟友，后者表示曾在竞选活动中鼓励民主党人为共和党人鼓掌，并称党派斗争无法带来成果。“解决这一问题的唯一途径，就是共同解决，”桑德说。
"We should make the final two years of his presidency the most productive of any presidency in American history," Talarico said, drawing tepid applause. "We’re tired of being pitted against each other." He found an ally in Iowa Governor-elect Rob Sand, who said he encouraged Democrats at campaign events to applaud Republicans and that partisan warfare will not deliver results. "The only way we’re going to fix that is by fixing it together," Sand said.
几分钟后，马里兰州联邦众议员杰米·拉斯金和奥巴马政府时期的司法部长埃里克·霍德基本拒绝了与特朗普妥协的做法。
Minutes later, US Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland and Eric Holder, who was attorney general in the Obama administration, largely rejected accommodation with Trump.
预计将于明年1月出任众议院司法委员会主席、明年监督对特朗普调查的拉斯金表示，共和党已变成一个个人崇拜的威权邪教。
Raskin, expected to become chairman of the House Judiciary Committee in January and oversee investigations of Trump next year, said the Republican Party had become an authoritarian cult of personality.
“我们将重申国会所有已被‘让美国再次伟大’（MAGA）国会向特朗普国王投降并放弃的权力，”拉斯金说。“我们将强制执行宪法来对付他。”霍尔德警告民主党人不要追求两党合作。
"We’re going to reassert all of the powers of Congress that have been surrendered and abdicated by the MAGA Congress to King Trump," Raskin said. "We’re going to enforce the Constitution against him." Holder warned Democrats against pursuing bipartisanship.
“如果我们退缩到谨慎中去，如果我们出于恐惧而行事，如果我们躲在旧华盛顿的客套话里，并寻求那些一直在并正在积极拆除我们制度的人的认可，我们将会失败。”党内长期以来一直存在关于是否进一步向左转还是追求更中间派议程的争论，而这次大选只会加剧这些紧张关系。
"If we retreat into caution, if we operate out of fear, if we take refuge in the niceties of the old Washington and seek approval from those who have been and are actively dismantling our institutions, we will fail." There has been a long-simmering debate inside the party over whether to move further left or pursue a more centrist agenda, and this election has only intensified those tensions.
关于治理的相互竞争的愿景 几乎所有在会议上发言的人都同意，该党的首要任务是降低成本、改善工薪家庭的生活。
COMPETING VISIONS FOR GOVERNING Almost everyone who spoke at the conference agreed the party’s top priority was lowering costs and improving life for working families.
即将出任美国众议院议长的纽约州众议员杰弗里斯，以及几位2028年总统大选潜在候选人——夏皮罗、前交通部长布蒂吉格和卡纳——都呼应了这一主题。但在如何实现这一目标上出现了分歧。
It was a theme echoed by New York Representative Hakeem Jeffries, set to become US House Speaker, and several prospective 2028 presidential candidates, including Shapiro, former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, and Khanna. But splits emerged over how to achieve that.
作为温和派的杰弗里斯遭到一群抗议者的嘘声干扰，他们指责他过于胆怯，无法带来变革，并呼吁众议院领袖应拥抱更具民粹主义色彩的进步议程。
Jeffries, a moderate, was heckled by a group of protesters, who accused him of being too timid to deliver change and called for a House leader who embraced a more populist progressive agenda.
卡纳和马里兰州参议员范霍伦——另一位进步派，本周曾向更偏向中间派的纽约州参议员舒默发起挑战，争夺该党在参议院的最高领导职位——呼吁采取民粹主义的、由政府资助的经济解决方案。
Khanna and Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen, another progressive who this week challenged more centrist Senator Chuck Schumer of New York for the party’s top leadership job in the Senate, called for populist, government-funded economic solutions.
别搞砸了 发言人们普遍感到焦虑，担心该党可能会挥霍掉一代人以来取得的最大胜利之一。
DON’T BLOW IT There was a collective anxiety among the speakers that the party might squander one of the biggest victories it has achieved in a generation.
许多发言人将这次胜利描述为选民给予他们的一个暂时机会，以解决国家的问题，而非持久的授权。
Many speakers described the win not as an enduring mandate, but rather a temporary opportunity voters had given them to fix the country’s problems.
亚利桑那州参议员鲁本·加列戈是另一位潜在的总统竞选人，他指出，许多在2024年投票给特朗普的西班牙裔选民本月支持了民主党人。
Arizona Senator Ruben Gallego, another potential presidential contender, noted that many Hispanic voters who voted for Trump in 2024 backed Democrats this month.
“但这并非是给民主党的一封‘情书’，”加列戈说。“这是一笔短期贷款，我们需要持续偿还，否则就会失去它。”
"It was not, though, a love letter to the Democratic Party," Gallego said. "It is a short-term loan that we need to keep paying, or we will lose it."