2026-06-24T18:29:25.448Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
在纽约市市长佐赫兰·曼达尼所在阵营在初选中取得惊人胜利后，民主党高层坚称他们并未因党内出现“佐赫兰·曼达尼派”而感到不安。
但随着曼达尼的盟友在三场初选中获胜，包括击败在任议员阿德里亚诺·埃斯帕利亚尔和丹·戈德曼，许多现任国会民主党人愈发焦虑。最直接的担忧是，这将使民主党今年夺回众议院的难度加大，因为共和党正急于利用曼达尼阵营最具争议的立场，在全国各摇摆选区制作攻击广告。
“显然，社会主义者昨晚取得了重大胜利。问题是，我们要让他们接管民主党吗？还是要站起来反击？”新泽西州众议员乔希·戈特海默说道。这位温和派民主党人此前曾批评曼达尼的政治立场，以及他对待以色列盟友的方式。“我们很多人都和我持同样观点：如果你是社会主义者，你就不是民主党人。”
戈特海默和其他人担心，共和党会试图将他们最弱势的议员与他们眼中的极左翼超进步派绑定，同时这也会凸显民主党在这场至关重要的选举年中的分歧。
当被问及击败埃斯帕利亚尔的达里亚利扎·阿维拉·谢瓦利尔此前删除的、表达支持废除警察、监狱和边境的帖子时，与众议院少数党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯关系密切的纽约资深民主党众议员格雷格·米克斯告诉CNN：“坦率地说，对纽约来说这不是一个好夜晚。”
当被问及美国民主社会主义者（DSA）与民主党之间的紧张关系时，米克斯补充道：“我们本应全力以赴打击共和党、打击唐纳德·特朗普，但我们却把资源用来内斗。这在我看来毫无常理。”
一位身处摇摆选区的民主党议员告诉CNN，他们对美国民主社会主义者的崛起深感担忧，以至于最近开始与捐赠者认真讨论彻底退出民主党。
即便民主党真的夺回众议院，其队伍中的民主社会主义者仍可能只是党团会议中的一小部分。民主党仍有信心在11月赢得众议院。
据两位熟悉此次简报会的人士透露，众议院民主党党团周三上午举行了由其政党机构主持的私人简报会，会上党领袖展示了内部民调数据，显示特朗普在关键摇摆选区的支持率低于竞争对手。无人提及曼达尼支持的候选人获胜一事。
周二获胜的曼达尼支持的候选人都打着民主党全国范围内倡导的经济适用口号，但他们的胜利凸显了民主党在华盛顿的现状策略引发的更大分歧——以及在以色列问题上的深刻裂痕。
“我们国家的民主党必须正视这一事实：你昨晚看到的获胜策略并非反经济适用或反经济政策，而是超越了宣传话术的反建制策略，”一位众议院民主党高级助手告诉CNN。
周三上午在纽约市发表讲话时，曼达尼提出了相反的观点，不过他也将生活成本问题与他长期以来对美国军事援助以色列的批评联系起来，这是三场初选的关键议题。
“我们昨晚看到的是，民众渴望有领导人站在前线，努力让工薪阶层能够负担得起在这座世界最伟大城市的生活，”他说。
众议院少数党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯周三淡化了党内的担忧，即这些胜利可能会在今年11月的摇摆选区产生影响。
“不，唐纳德·特朗普与纽约市市长有着合作关系，他已经两次在椭圆形办公室向美国公众公开明确地表明了这一点，”杰弗里斯说道。
当被记者问及曼达尼是否在国会山树敌时，杰弗里斯——他曾支持埃斯帕利亚尔和戈德曼——告诉记者：“听着，我和市长在他的一些背书问题上坚决持不同意见，他未来需要和议员们进行沟通。”
当被问及民主党选民是否希望国会中的议员更加进步时，杰弗里斯回应道：“我认为我们必须审视众议院民主党党团全部215名成员的整体情况，答案不言自明。”
这位来自布鲁克林的议员告诉记者，他与曼达尼的关系“非常好”，两人经常交谈。
莫里斯·卡茨是曼达尼的关键盟友、竞选策略师，他认为民主党可以成为一个“大帐篷式的民粹主义政党”，专注于经济适用问题，并“将资源投入国内优先事项、学校和医院，而非海外战争”。
“我认为我们花了太多时间讨论标签，而普通摇摆选民并不会在意这些，”卡茨告诉CNN的达纳·巴什。“你会看到人们根据政策、竞选活动和理念与他人互动，而非根据他们给自己贴上的标签，而是看这些东西如何改善他们的生活？”
在国会山，像民主党众议员罗·卡纳这样的进步派人士为周二的选举结果欢呼。
“这是民主党进步派的重大胜利。我们是一个新的政党，将呼吁制止种族灭绝、对亿万富翁征税，并支持单一支付者医疗保健制度，”卡纳告诉CNN。“我们的政党需要新一代愿意挑战现状、揭露建制派的领导人。”
但一位资深民主党人、来自德克萨斯州的众议员维森特·冈萨雷斯坚决反对这种结果反映了全国民意的说法。
相反，他表示，这只是一小部分民主党人开展了极其有效的竞选活动。
“我认为我们在当地还有很多组织工作要做，尤其是在纽约和加州这些美国民主社会主义者影响力越来越大的地方，我们需要教育年轻人，让更多年轻人参与到更温和的政策中来，就像另一方那样，然后开展强有力的竞选活动，”冈萨雷斯说道。
“我认为南德克萨斯州的民众不必担心，但我认为在全国范围内这是一个巨大的担忧，以及他们在民主党党团中推动的政策，我们将不得不为之辩护，”冈萨雷斯补充道。“其中很多政策我显然并不认同，对我来说很难向南德克萨斯州的民众推销，我也不打算这么做，因为我本人并不相信其中大多数政策。”
至于自己的连任，冈萨雷斯有信心尽管共和党会发起将他与美国民主社会主义者联系起来的攻击，他仍能获胜：“我从政已久，人们不会把我看作社会主义者。事实上，我还会被社会主义者抨击。”
House Democrats’ anxiety rises after wins by Mamdani-backed candidates: ‘Are we going to let them take over the party?’
2026-06-24T18:29:25.448Z / CNN
Top Democrats insist that they’re unfazed by the party’s forming a “Zohran Mamdani wing,” after the New York City mayor’s stunningly successful primary night.
But there is growing angst among many sitting congressional Democrats after Mamdani allies won three primaries, including defeats of incumbent Reps. Adriano Espaillat and Dan Goldman. And, most immediately, they worry it will make it tougher to flip the House this year, with Republicans eager to tee up the Mamdani slate’s most controversial positions for attack ads in battlegrounds across the country.
“Obviously, the socialists had a big win last night. The question is, are we going to let them take over the party? Or are we going to stand up and fight back?” said Rep. Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey, a moderate Democrat who has criticized Mamdani’s politics and how he’s addressed allies of Israel. “Many of us believe, as I do, that if you’re a socialist, you’re not a Democrat.”
Gottheimer and others worry that Republicans will try to yoke their most vulnerable members to what they see as far-left ultra-progressives — and they worry that it will only highlight Democratic divisions in a must-win election year.
“If you ask me, it was not a good night for New York,” Rep. Greg Meeks, a powerful New York Democrat who is close with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, told CNN when asked about deleted posts from Darializa Avila Chevalier, who defeated Espaillat, expressing support for abolishing police, prisons and borders.
Asked about the fraught relationship between the Democratic Socialists of America and the Democratic Party, Meeks added: “Instead of us making sure we put all of our resources to fight Republicans and to fight Donald Trump, we’re using it to fight each other. It just doesn’t make common sense to me.”
One Democratic lawmaker sitting in a battleground district told CNN that they are so concerned about the rise of the Democratic Socialists of America that they have recently begun having serious conversations with donors about leaving the party altogether.
If Democrats do flip the House, the number of democratic socialists in their ranks is still likely to be a small minority of the caucus. And Democrats remain confident they can still win the House in November.
The House Democratic caucus gathered for a private briefing by their party arm on Wednesday morning, where party leaders presented internal polling showing Trump underwater in key battlegrounds, according to two people familiar with the briefing. No one brought up the Mamdani-backed candidate wins.
The Mamdani-backed candidates who won on Tuesday ran on the same affordability message that the party has embraced nationally, but their victories highlight broader friction over Democrats’ status-quo tactics in Washington — as well as deep divides on Israel.
“Our party nationally will need to reckon with this fact given that what you witnessed yesterday was not an anti-affordability or anti-economic policy strategy that won; it was an anti-establishment strategy beyond messaging that trumped,” a senior House Democratic aide told CNN.
Speaking Wednesday morning in New York City, Mamdani made the opposite argument, though he also connected cost-of-living issues to his longstanding critiques of US military support for Israel, a key issue in all three primaries.
“What we saw last night was a hunger for leaders who will be there on the front lines looking to make it easier for working people to afford life in the greatest city in the world,” he said.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Wednesday downplayed fears within his party that the wins could reverberate in battleground districts this November.
“No, Donald Trump has a working relationship with the mayor of the city of New York, and he’s made that publicly and explicitly clear to America, not once but twice in the Oval Office,” Jeffries said.
Jeffries was asked by reporters if Mamdani had made enemies on Capitol Hill.
“Listen, the mayor and I agreed to strongly disagree about some of his endorsements, and he’s got work to do in terms of the conversations that he’s going to have with members of Congress moving forward,” Jeffries, who backed Espaillat and Goldman, told reporters.
Asked if Democratic voters want their members in Congress to be more progressive, Jeffries responded: “I think we’ve got to look at the totality of all 215 members of the House Democratic caucus, and that answer speaks for itself.”
The Brooklyn representative told reporters his relationship with Madmani is “a very good one” and that the pair speak regularly.
Morris Katz, a campaign strategist who is a key Mamdani ally, argued that Democrats can have a “big-tent populist party” that focuses on affordability and “invests in domestic priorities, in schools and in hospitals rather than in wars abroad.”
“I think that we spend a lot more time talking about labels than the average swing voter thinks about that,” Katz told CNN’s Dana Bash. “You see people interact with policies, campaigns, and ideas not predicated on the label they’re applying to themselves, but how are they going to make their lives better?”
And on Capitol Hill, progressives like Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna celebrated Tuesday night’s results.
“It’s a big win for the progressive wing of the party. We are a new party that will call out the genocide, tax the billionaires, and stand up for single payer healthcare” Khanna told CNN. “Our party wants a new generation leaders willing to challenge the status quo and call out the establishment.”
But one longtime Democrat, Rep. Vicente Gonzalez of Texas, firmly disagrees that the results reflect the mood of the country.
Instead, he said it’s a small minority of Democrats who have run extremely effective campaigns.
“I think we have a lot of more organizing to do on the ground, especially in places like New York and California, places where DSA is is is being more influential, and we need to educate young people, we need to get more people, young people involved on more moderate policies, just the way the other side has, and run strong campaigns,” Gonzalez said.
“I don’t think it should be a concern for people in South Texas, but I think nationally it’s a huge concern, and how they push the policies within the Democratic caucus that we’re going to have to defend,” Gonzalez added. “A lot of these policies that obviously I don’t agree with, and would be very difficult for me to sell to people in South Texas, and I don’t intend to sell them, because I don’t believe in most of them myself.
As for his own reelection, Gonzalez was confident he could still win despite any GOP attacks linking him to the DSA: “I’ve been around long enough that people don’t see me as a socialist. In fact, I get beat up by socialists.”