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由美国民主社会主义者（DSA）背书的首次参选候选人梅拉特·基罗斯，正在挑战已连任30年的黛安娜·德盖特众议员
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美国民主社会主义者协会（DSA）将目光投向了科罗拉多州。
在这个由民主党掌控的落基山州，周二的几场初选是极左翼与中左翼建制派围绕民主党未来走向展开较量的下一个战场。
“今天拿下东海岸，下周进军山区西部，”DSA上周在社交媒体上发帖称，此前数小时他们刚在纽约市的几场国会初选中取得投票箱胜利。
这一表态发布前，与DSA结盟的32岁极左翼社区组织者达里亚利萨·阿维拉·谢瓦利埃击败了现任民主党议员、国会西班牙裔核心小组主席阿德里亚诺·埃斯帕列尔；另一位民主社会主义者、州议员克莱尔·瓦尔迪兹也击败了建制派背书的候选人，赢得国会初选。
获马姆达尼背书的国会候选人获胜，凸显民主党内部日益加剧的分裂
2026年6月18日，在纽约市国王剧院举行的“动员选民”（GOTV）集会上，国会候选人克莱尔·瓦尔迪兹、国会候选人布拉德·兰德、市长佐赫兰·马姆达尼和国会候选人达里亚利萨·阿维拉·谢瓦利埃举手致意。（迈克尔·M·圣地亚哥/盖蒂图片社）
谢瓦利埃和瓦尔迪兹在纽约市市长、民主社会主义者佐赫兰·马姆达尼的大力支持下获胜，这进一步鼓舞了极左翼势力——他们正为民主党未来的高风险较量，挑战中左翼建制派。
如今，DSA正试图在全国范围内复制其竞选模式，首场战役将于周二打响：科罗拉多州第一国会选区的民主党初选。该选区是坚定的蓝营票仓，以丹佛为核心，2024年大选时任副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯在此以高达56个百分点的优势获胜。
1996年首次当选国会议员的民主党众议员黛安娜·德盖特，正面临两位初选挑战者，其中就包括DSA背书的梅拉特·基罗斯。基罗斯是首次参选的前律师，她出生时，德盖特刚上任四个月。
基罗斯曾因发表批评以色列的文章丢掉纽约律师的工作，她同时获得了“正义民主党人”的支持。这个成立近十年的政治团体以大力支持“国会进步小组”成员而闻名，包括亚历山德里亚·奥卡西奥-科特兹、伊尔汗·奥马尔、阿亚娜·普雷斯利和拉希达·特莱布，这些人在最初参选国会时就击败了根深蒂固的在任议员。
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2026年5月28日，科罗拉多州丹佛市，民主党国会候选人梅拉特·基罗斯在蒙特维尤长老会教堂举行的第一国会选区妇女选民联盟候选人论坛上发言。（RJ·桑戈斯蒂/媒体新闻集团/《丹佛邮报》 via 盖蒂图片社）
“6月30日，选举另一位社会主义者进入国会，”DSA在社交媒体帖子中写道，并呼吁支持者为基罗斯的竞选提供帮助。
民主党内部的分裂也将在相邻的第八国会选区初上演。该选区沿丹佛北部的25号州际公路走廊分布。
州议员曼尼·鲁蒂内尔的竞选立场比前州议员香农·伯德更为激进，初选获胜者将挑战共和党众议员加布·埃文斯——后者在2024年选举中拿下了这个席位。这场初选被认为是将决定共和党能否保住众议院微弱多数席位的三四十场关键选举之一。
移民问题是该民主党初选的核心议题，该选区约40%的人口为拉丁裔。鲁蒂内尔曾批评伯德去年投票反对一项限制地方、州执法部门与美国移民及海关执法局（ICE）合作的法案。
马姆达尼背书的社会主义者初选中获胜后，试图将纽约模式推广至全国
2026年6月4日，科罗拉多州民主党参议员约翰·希肯卢珀在华盛顿特区美国国会大厦参议院地铁通道内行走。（埃里克·李/彭博社 via 盖蒂图片社）
另一场凸显进步派与温和派分歧、以及民主党代际鸿沟的对决，是现任参议员、74岁的约翰·希肯卢珀与43岁的进步派候选人、前州参议员朱莉·冈萨雷斯之间的参议院提名争夺战。希肯卢珀曾担任丹佛市长和两届州长，他原本领先冈萨雷斯的优势明显，但这一差距正在缩小。冈萨雷斯曾是DSA成员。
初选获胜者将挑战共和党州参议员马克·贝利斯利——后者在共和党初选中未遇对手。
长期从事进步派政治战略咨询和基层组织工作的香农·杰克逊，最为人熟知的身份是参议员伯尼·桑德斯2016年和2020年总统竞选团队的核心领导人。他援引上周的选举结果告诉福克斯新闻数字频道：“民众感到沮丧。”
“获胜者的核心口号是：全民医保、保障民生的重要性以及生活工资。进步派长期以来一直在为这些价值观而战，我预计初选胜利的势头还会继续下去，”他强调道。
与此同时，该州耗资巨大、竞争激烈的民主党州长初选，在参议员迈克尔·本内特和州检察长菲尔·韦瑟之间展开。
2026年，科罗拉多州民主党参议员迈克尔·本内特正在竞选州长。（凯拉·巴特科夫斯基/盖蒂图片社）
本内特或韦瑟将被视为接替两届民主党州长贾里德·波利斯的热门人选。波利斯是美国历史上首位当选州长的公开同性恋者。
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韦瑟在部分议题上的立场比本内特更为激进，他通过强调自己与前总统唐纳德·特朗普对抗的经历拉近了与选民的距离——担任州检察长期间，他曾66次起诉特朗普。
初选获胜者将在州议员斯科特·巴托斯、州参议员芭芭拉·柯克迈耶和牧师、海军陆战队退伍军人维克托·马克思中选出共和党候选人。
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Socialists take fight west, target Colorado in latest bid to oust Democratic Party establishment
June 30, 2026 5:00am EDT / Fox News
DSA-backed Melat Kiros, a first-time candidate, is taking on Rep. Diana DeGette, who was first elected 3 decades ago
By Paul Steinhauser
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The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is setting its sights on Colorado.
A handful of Tuesday’s primaries in the Democrat-dominated Rocky Mountain state are the next battleground in the fight between the far left and the center-left establishment over the future of the Democratic Party.
“Today, the East Coast, next week the Mountain West,” the DSA wrote in a social media post last week, hours after their ballot-box victories in a handful of congressional primaries in New York City.
The post came after DSA-aligned Darializa Avila Chevalier, a 32-year-old far-left community organizer, ousted incumbent Democratic Rep. Adriano Espaillat, chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and state Assembly Member Claire Valdez, another democratic socialist, won a congressional primary by defeating an establishment-backed candidate.
VICTORIES BY MAMDANI-BACKED CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES SPOTLIGHTS GROWING RIFT IN DEMOCRATIC PARTY
Congressional candidate Claire Valdez, Congressional candidate Brad Lander, Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and Congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier raise their hands during a Get Out the Vote (GOTV) rally at King’s Theater on June 18, 2026, in New York City.(Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
The victories by Chevalier and Valdez, who were heavily supported by democratic socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, further emboldened the far left as it takes on the center-left establishment in a high-stakes battle for the future of the Democratic Party.
The DSA is now looking to replicate its playbook across the country, starting Tuesday in the Democratic primary in Colorado’s 1st Congressional District, a solidly blue seat anchored in Denver that then-Vice President Kamala Harris carried by a whopping 56 points in the 2024 election.
Democratic Rep. Diana DeGette, who was first elected to Congress three decades ago, is facing two primary challengers, including DSA-backed Melat Kiros, a first-time candidate and former attorney born four months after DeGette first took office.
Kiros, who lost her job as a lawyer in New York after writing an essay critical of Israel, is also supported by Justice Democrats, the nearly decade-old political group known for heavily supporting “Squad” members Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib as they toppled entrenched incumbents in their initial elections to Congress.
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Democratic congressional candidate Melat Kiros participated in a League of Women Voters Congressional District 1 candidate forum at Montview Presbyterian Church on May 28, 2026, in Denver, Colorado.(Photo by RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)
“ELECT ANOTHER SOCIALIST TO CONGRESS ON JUNE 30TH,” a DSA social media post states as it urges supporters to lend a hand to the Kiros campaign.
The Democratic Party divide will also play out in the primary in the neighboring 8th Congressional District, which stretches along the I-25 corridor north of Denver.
State Rep. Manny Rutinel is running to the left of former state Rep. Shannon Bird, with the winner taking on Republican Rep. Gabe Evans, who flipped the seat in the 2024 cycle. The race is considered one of two or three dozen that will determine if the GOP holds onto its razor-thin House majority in the midterms.
Immigration has been a top issue in the Democratic primary in a district where roughly 40% of the population is Latino. Rutinel has criticized Bird for a vote she cast last year opposing a measure limiting cooperation between local and state law enforcement and ICE.
MAMDANI-BACKED SOCIALISTS LOOK TO TAKE NEW YORK PLAYBOOK NATIONWIDE AFTER PRIMARY VICTORIES
Senator John Hickenlooper, a Democrat from Colorado, walks in the Senate Subway of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on June 4, 2026.(Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Another primary showdown highlighting the split between progressives and moderates, as well as the party’s generational divide, is the Senate nomination battle between incumbent Sen. John Hickenlooper, 74, and former state Sen. Julie Gonzales, a 43-year-old progressive. Hickenlooper, a former Denver mayor and two-term governor, has seen his once-large advantage over Gonzales, a one-time DSA member, narrow.
The winner will face Republican state Sen. Mark Baisley, who is unopposed in his primary.
Shannon Jackson, a longtime progressive political strategist and grassroots organizer best known for his leadership roles in Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns, pointed to last week’s results and told Fox News Digital that “people are frustrated.”
“The key message of the victors: Medicare-for-All, the importance of affordability and a living wage. Progressives have long fought for these values and I expect the primary victories to continue,” he emphasized.
Meanwhile, the state’s expensive and combustible Democratic gubernatorial primary pits Sen. Michael Bennet against state Attorney General Phil Weiser.
Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., is running for Colorado governor in 2026.(Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
Bennet or Weiser will be considered the clear favorite in the race to succeed two-term Democratic Gov. Jared Polis, the first openly gay man elected governor in the nation’s history.
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Weiser, who is running to Bennet’s left on certain issues, closed the gap with the senator as he spotlighted his efforts to take on President Donald Trump, including suing Trump 66 times as attorney general.
The winner will face either state Rep. Scott Bottoms, state Sen. Barb Kirkmeyer or pastor and Marine Corps veteran Victor Marx as the Republican nominee.
Paul Steinhauser covers the national campaign trail from coast to coast for Fox News
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