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80岁参议员埃德·马基击败挑战者众议员赛斯·莫尔顿，现任议员横扫该州多场关键选举
作者：亚历克·谢梅尔 福克斯新闻
马萨诸塞州民主党参议院初选辩论五大高光时刻
现任马萨诸塞州联邦参议员埃德·马基（民主党籍）与马萨诸塞州联邦众议员赛斯·莫尔顿（民主党籍）在9月1日民主党初选前的最后一场辩论中，就跨性别运动员政策、移民海关执法局、社会主义和任期限制等议题展开交锋。（图片来源：WCVB）
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马萨诸塞州民主党人周二在关键初选中为现任议员投出支持票，但最明确的信号出现在该州的世代对决中：80岁的参议员埃德·马基以压倒性优势击败了47岁的温和派民主党众议员赛斯·莫尔顿，此前莫尔顿曾辩称民主党是时候“传棒接棒”了。
周二晚间的选举结果凸显了民主党在这个深蓝州的统治地位，而非单一意识形态的胜利。选民在民主党各派系中支持现任议员，同时在备受关注的空缺席位竞选中，选出了拜登-哈里斯支持的前白宫助手，以接替莫尔顿因参选参议员而放弃的众议院席位。与此同时，共和党在四个国会选区——第一、第二、第五和第七选区——未能推出众议院候选人，仅为这个蓝营铁票区的国务卿竞选推出了写票候选人。
不过，马基击败更为温和的莫尔顿的胜利，成为当晚民主党进步派最明确的胜利。
选举闹剧搅动关键中期选举，两党互相指责对方搞小动作
2026年6月4日（周四），马萨诸塞州联邦参议员埃德·马基在华盛顿特区国会山。（埃里克·李/彭博社 via 盖蒂图片社）
“很明显，民主党选民更看重政策和由进步派代表他们进入参议院，而非年龄！”在美联社预测马基获胜后，颇具争议的Twitch主播、极左翼活动家哈桑·皮克尔说道。“我们的运动又拿下一场胜利！”
莫尔顿在败选后承认，挑战埃德·马基这样的长期在任议员异常艰难，但他表示这场努力并非毫无意义，指出“我们开启了亟需展开的对话”，并补充说他“相信……其他人在被告知‘按部就班等待’时，会受到鼓舞去挑战体制”。
竞选期间，马基因其极左翼立场遭到攻击，包括他支持跨性别运动员参加女子体育赛事，但这位在国会代表马萨诸塞州近五十年的州议员的进步派资历，并未成为选民抛弃他的关键障碍。
丑闻缠身的“国会激进派”议员毫无共和党阻碍，轻松赢得民主党提名
马萨诸塞州联邦众议员赛斯·莫尔顿周二表示，将美国移民与海关执法局（ICE）与纳粹德国相比较并非极端行为。（盖蒂图片社）
“埃德·马基数十年来一直在为LGBTQ+平等、工薪阶层和更宜居的世界而战，”人权运动组织（HRC）主席凯利·罗宾逊在马基获胜后说道。“他明白平等为何重要。无论如何他都与我们站在一起。我们今年很自豪能为他背书，而当支持平等的多数席位在今年秋季夺回参议院时，我们将继续依靠他作为我们社群的捍卫者。”
周二马萨诸塞州初选中，现任议员的成功同样延伸到了众议院：众议员理查德·尼尔和斯蒂芬·林奇击退了年轻挑战者，而众议员凯瑟琳·克拉克和杰克·奥钦克罗斯也成功晋级。这一系列胜利几乎没有迹象表明该州民主党代表团面临广泛的反现任议员浪潮。
马萨诸塞州民主党人还选出了前拜登白宫助手丹·科，以接替莫尔顿在开放的第六国会选区的席位。科的胜利为该代表团带来了新面孔，但这并非以现任议员为代价——莫尔顿为参选参议员放弃了席位，创造了该选区数十年来首次没有现任议员参选的空缺席位竞选。
民主党核心议员经受住双重挑战，党内对以色列政策分歧显现
国会候选人丹·科参加2018年4月29日在马萨诸塞州洛厄尔举行的第三国会选区民主党候选人辩论。（基思·贝德福德/《波士顿环球报》 via 盖蒂图片社）
与此同时，马萨诸塞州共和党人在多个国会选区未能推出候选人，包括波士顿所在的第七选区，这使得众议员艾安娜·普雷斯利等民主党人在11月的选举中没有共和党对手。普雷斯利在周二的初选中毫无对手。
商人迈克尔·米诺基击败布莱恩·尚普利斯赢得共和党州长候选人提名后，共和党仍将在11月拥有全州范围的候选人，并将挑战民主党现任州长莫拉·希利——希利周二晚间在初选中毫无对手地胜出。
共和党还在该州九个国会选区中的五个推出了众议院候选人：第三、第四、第六、第八和第九选区。
最引人注目的是开放的第六国会选区，共和党候选人迈卡·昆尼·琼斯将对阵科——科得到了前总统乔·拜登、前副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯和前交通部长皮特·布塔吉ieg，以及其他几位拜登政府前官员的支持。这些支持为科在这场接替莫尔顿的拥挤竞选中提供了强大的建制派联盟。
迈卡·琼斯，马萨诸塞州国会候选人，左图与美国国会大厦合影，右图。（迈卡·琼斯竞选团队；丹尼尔·霍伊尔/彭博社 via 盖蒂图片社）
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科获胜后，民主党全国委员会主席肯·马丁向这位前拜登政府助手表示祝贺。
“从波士顿市政厅到美国劳工部，再到白宫，丹·科一生都致力于公共服务，确保政府真正为工薪家庭办实事，”马丁在一份声明中说道。“他是土生土长的马萨诸塞州人，知道如何团结各方解决问题，为我们的社区而战。在国会中，丹将优先降低生活成本、保护医疗保健、让住房更可负担、强化工人权利、铲除腐败，并追究唐纳德·特朗普的责任。民主党全国委员会已准备好与他并肩作战，为马萨诸塞州第六国会选区的全体民众创造更实惠的生活。”
亚历克·谢梅尔是福克斯新闻数字频道的政治记者，原籍北卡罗来纳州夏洛特，现居住在华盛顿特区-巴尔的摩都会区。
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September 2, 2026 5:00am EDT / Fox News
80-year-old Sen Ed Markey defeated challenger Rep Seth Moulton as incumbents swept marquee races across the state
By Alec Schemmel Fox News
Top 5 moments from final Massachusetts Democratic Senate primary debate
Incumbent Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., faced off over transgender athletes, ICE, socialism and term limits in their final debate before the Sept. 1 Democratic primary. (Credit: WCVB)
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Massachusetts Democrats rewarded incumbency in marquee primaries Tuesday, but the clearest message came in the state’s generational showdown, with 80-year-old Sen. Ed Markey routing moderate Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton, 47, after Moulton argued it was time for the party to “pass the torch.”
Tuesday night’s results underscored Democratic dominance in the deep-blue state rather than a single ideological sweep. Voters backed established incumbents across the party’s factions and selected a Biden-Harris-backed former White House aide in the closely watched open-seat contest to take over Moulton’s House seat after he abandoned it to run for Senate. Meanwhile, Republicans failed to nominate House candidates in four districts — the first, second, fifth and seventh — while only fielding write-ins for the blue stronghold’s secretary of state race.
Markey’s victory over the more moderate Moulton, however, stood out as the night’s clearest win for the party’s progressive wing.
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Senator Ed Markey, a Democrat from Massachusetts, at the US Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, June 4, 2026.(Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“Its very clear that the dem voters care more about policies and having a progressive represent them in the senate, than age!,\ controversial Twitch streamer and far-left activist Hasan Piker said after The Associated Press projected Markey would win. “Another w for our movement!”
Moulton highlighted the difficult battle he faced trying to unseat a longtime incumbent like Markey following his concession, but said the effort was not for nothing, noting “we started conversations that needed to happen” and adding that he is “confident … others will be inspired to buck the system when they’re told to wait their turn.”
Markey faced attacks during the campaign over his far-left positions, including his support for transgender athletes’ participation in women’s sports, but the progressive bona fides of the Massachusetts lawmaker, who has represented the state in Congress for nearly five decades, were not a significant enough sticking point for voters to abandon him.
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Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., said Tuesday that it is not extreme to compare the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with Nazi Germany.(Getty Images)
“Ed Markey has spent decades fighting for LGBTQ+ equality, for working people, and for a more livable world,” said Human Rights Campaign (HRC) President Kelley Robinson following Markey’s win. “He knows why equality matters. He’s stood with us no matter what. We were proud to endorse him this year, and when a pro-equality majority takes back the Senate this fall, we will continue to count on him as a champion for our community.”
The incumbent success Markey saw carried into the House during Tuesday night’s Massachusetts primaries, where Reps. Richard Neal and Stephen Lynch fended off younger challengers, while Reps. Katherine Clark and Jake Auchincloss also advanced. The string of wins offered little evidence of broad anti-incumbent turbulence in the state’s Democratic delegation.
Massachusetts Democrats also picked former Biden White House aide Dan Koh to succeed Moulton in the open 6th Congressional District. Koh’s victory gives the delegation a new face, but it did not come at an incumbent’s expense as Moulton vacated the seat for his unsuccessful Senate bid, creating the district’s first open-seat contest without an incumbent on the ballot in decades.
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Congressional candidate Dan Koh participates in a debate between the Democratic candidates for the Third Congressional District seat in Lowell, Massachusetts, on April 29, 2018.(Keith Bedford/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
Massachusetts Republicans, meanwhile, failed to field nominees in several House districts, including the Boston-area 7th District, leaving Democrats such as Rep. Ayanna Pressley without GOP opposition in November. Pressley ran unopposed in Tuesday’s primary.
Republicans will still have a statewide standard-bearer in November after businessman Michael Minogue defeated Brian Shortsleeve for the GOP gubernatorial nomination and advanced to face Democratic Gov. Maura Healey, who won her primary unopposed Tuesday night.
The GOP also nominated House candidates in five of the state’s nine districts: the third, fourth, sixth, eighth and ninth.
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The most notable is the open 6th District, where Republican Micah Quinney Jones will face Koh, who was backed by former President Joe Biden, former Vice President Kamala Harris and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, alongside several other alumni of the Biden administration. The support gave Koh a powerful establishment coalition in the crowded contest to succeed Moulton.
Micah Jones, candidate for Congress in Massachusetts, left, pictured alongside the U.S. Capitol Building, right.(Micah Jones for Congress; Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Following Koh’s win, Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin congratulated the former Biden administration aide.
“From Boston City Hall and the U.S. Department of Labor to the White House, Dan Koh has dedicated his life to public service and ensuring government actually delivers for working families. He is a Massachusetts native who knows how to bring people together to solve problems and fight for our communities,” Martin said in a statement. “In Congress, Dan will prioritize bringing down costs, protecting healthcare, making housing more affordable, strengthening workers’ rights, rooting out corruption, and holding Donald Trump accountable. The DNC is ready to work alongside him to make life more affordable for people throughout Massachusetts’ 6th Congressional District.”
Alec Schemmel is a Politics Reporter for Fox News Digital who is originally from Charlotte, North Carolina but now resides in the Washington D.C.-Baltimore Metro Area.
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