2026年11月13日 美国东部标准时间 晚上7:43 / CBS 新闻
民主党在中期选举中清晰接收到了选民的诉求：美国人想要切实成果，而非“肤浅的意识形态测试”，正如宾夕法尼亚州州长乔希·夏皮罗本周在丹佛举行的会议上所言。不过，显然，民主党人目前仍在斟酌如何实现这些成果——毕竟明年他们将掌控参众两院，而特朗普总统仍在白宫任职。
夏皮罗助力民主党在其所在州拿下四个众议院席位，此次选举也为民主党带来了参众两院的决定性多数席位。他表示，选民已拒绝“混乱”与“腐败”，并要求推行以成果为导向的治理。夏皮罗敦促国会民主党人聚焦于降低成本、建设经济适用房、保护消费者以及扩大经济机会——而非深陷意识形态斗争。
这位宾夕法尼亚州州长被视为2028年总统候选人的可能人选，他在讲话中重点关注国家议题，指出选民“授权的开端”要求在竞争、人工智能、创新及经济公平领域采取激进行动。他建议民主党利用多数席位为工薪家庭打造更扎实的“美国契约”。
尽管部分新当选的民主党人，比如得克萨斯州参议员当选人詹姆斯·塔拉里科，对新一届国会与特朗普政府合作的能力抱有一定乐观态度，但另一些人，包括新泽西州州长米基·谢里尔，则鼓励新任国会议员在与特朗普谈判时保持务实。
塔拉里科周四在发言中表示，他在一个传统上倾向共和党的州赢得了席位，因此民主党“必须”与特朗普总统合作，因为“美国人民无法再等两年才迎来变革”。
“我们应当让他任期的最后两年成为美国历史上所有总统任期里最富成效的时期，”塔拉里科说。
但谢里尔认为，这可能比听起来要难得多。
“对特朗普而言，谈判的诀窍就是：他会摸清你的需求，然后把你榨干——我就不直说那是什么了——不断索取、索取、索取，却从不兑现，他从不遵守自己的承诺，”谢里尔谈及她作为新泽西州州长与特朗普打交道的经历时这样说。
她告诉民主党人要利用本次选举周期中积累的权力，并将其转化为自身优势。
“我对参议员塔拉里科的建议是：如果特朗普想与我们合作，我们就列出议程，他可以签字，”谢里尔说。
弗吉尼亚州州长阿比盖尔·斯潘伯格于2025年当选州长，与谢里尔同年当选，她也认为与特朗普达成协议可能是徒劳的。
“认为只要达成协议、只要做出让步——哪怕是给总统让一英寸——就有理由相信他会遵守，这是愚蠢的，因为他没有任何信守承诺的记录，”斯潘伯格说，她曾在当选州长前代表弗吉尼亚州出任众议员。
斯潘伯格为明年的民主党国会提出了如下建议：“国会应该通过一项又一项广受欢迎、且完全契合全国民众竞选承诺的法案，然后送至总统的办公桌上。不预先谈判，也不进行讨论。最终他会想要举办签字仪式，到那时或许会签署其中几项。而如果他不签，到2028年，民众会看到：众议院通过了这些法案，参议院也通过了这些法案，总统却没有采取任何行动。”
尽管丹佛的气氛一片欢庆，但民主党官员反复强调，他们明白上周的胜利并不代表长期的政党重组，也无法保证支持他们的选民会继续支持下去。
“这不是一张空白支票，”亚利桑那州参议员鲁本·加莱戈说，“反而这是一笔短期贷款，我们必须持续偿还——否则就会失去它。”
Democrats see mandate from voters to lower costs, but still figuring out how to deal with Trump factor
November 13, 2026 / 7:43 PM EST / CBS News
Democrats received the message loud and clear from the midterm elections that Americans want results, not “shallow litmus tests,” as Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro put it at a conference in Denver this week. But it was evident that Democrats, who gathered at a summit on the way forward as they take control of the House and Senate next year, are still working out just how to achieve those results while President Trump is still in the White House.
Shapiro helped Democrats flip four House seats in his state, and he spoke after an election that delivered decisive majorities to Democrats in the Senate and the House. He said voters had rejected “chaos” and “corruption” and are demanding results-focused governance. Shapiro urged congressional Democrats to focus on lowering costs, building affordable housing, protecting consumers and expanding economic opportunity — and not on ideological fights.
The Pennsylvania governor, who has been mentioned as a possible 2028 presidential candidate, focused on national issues, arguing the “beginning of the mandate” from voters called for aggressive action on competition, AI, innovation and economic fairness. He advised Democrats to use their majorities to deliver a stronger “American bargain” for working families.
While some newly elected Democrats, like Sen.-elect James Talarico of Texas, have some optimism about the new Congress’ ability to work with the Trump administration, others, including New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill, encouraged new members of Congress to be pragmatic in approaching dealmaking with Mr. Trump.
In his remarks Thursday, Talarico, who won his seat in a heavily Republican state, said that Democrats “must” work with President Trump because “the American people cannot wait two years for change.”
“We should make the final two years of his presidency the most productive of any presidency in American history,” Talarico said.
But Sherrill suggested that may be harder than it sounds.
“The art of the deal to Trump is, he figures out what you want. He leverages the you-know-what out of you and keeps taking, taking, taking and never delivers. He does not follow through on his commitments,” Sherrill said of her experience in working with him as New Jersey’s governor.
She told Democrats to take advantage of the power they amassed this election cycle and use it to their advantage.
“My advice to Senator Talarico is, if Trump wants to work with us, we will lay out the agenda and he can sign it,” Sherrill said.
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger, who won the governorship in 2025, the same year as Sherrill, agreed that trying to make deals with Mr. Trump may be futile.
“It is foolish to think if you ever make a deal, if you ever give anything, you give an inch to the president, there is no reason to believe—he has no track record of ever following through—that if you make a deal with President Trump, he will ever actually abide by it,” Spanberger said.
Spanberger, who represented Virginia in the House before she was elected governor, offered this advice to next year’s Democratic Congress: “Congress should pass bill after bill after bill that is broadly, very clearly popular, and is responsive to what folks across the country campaigned on, and send it to the president’s desk. No pre-negotiations, no discussions. Eventually he’ll want to do a signing ceremony. And eventually, he might sign a couple of them. And if not, then in 2028, folks say, look at these bills that passed through the House, passed through the Senate. The president didn’t take action.”
Despite the celebratory mood in Denver, Democratic officials repeatedly sent the message that they understand that last week’s victories do not represent a long-term realignment, and there’s no guarantee that the voters who supported them will continue to do so.
“This isn’t a blank check,” Sen. Ruben Gallego of Arizona said. “If anything, it is a short-term loan that we need to keep paying — or we will lose it.”
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