2026年6月30日 美国东部时间下午6:24 / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：基特·马赫尔
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美国副总统JD·万斯表示，他认为众议员亚历山德里亚·奥卡西奥-科特兹将成为2028年总统选举的民主党领先候选人。
“我认为非她莫属。我知道这可能是主流观点，”万斯在周二发布的《迈克尔·诺尔斯秀》采访中说道。
当主持人反驳称主流观点更倾向于加州州长加文·纽瑟姆时，万斯予以反驳。
“不，不，”他说，“我不认同。我认为他在一场有大量非裔美国人听众的活动中发表的言论损害了自己的形象——他说‘我智商很低，和你们一样’。”
万斯所指的是纽瑟姆在亚特兰大宣传其新书的活动上发表的言论，这位加州州长当时说道：“我不是要给你们留下深刻印象，我只是想让你们明白。我和你们一样。我不比你们强，你们知道，我是那个SAT成绩只有960分的人……你们从没见过我读演讲稿，因为我不会读演讲稿。”
万斯被视为共和党总统竞选的潜在领跑者；唐纳德·特朗普曾公开猜测他的副总统或是国务卿马可·卢比奥能否接任他的位置。近期，特朗普将矛头指向民主党左翼，借多名民主社会主义候选人的选举胜利，宣称民主党正被“无神论的共产主义者”掌控，这些人对美国构成生存威胁。
当美国有线电视新闻网就万斯的言论向奥卡西奥-科特兹求证时，她笑着表示，“我希望他说的是真的，（她）能成为候选人。”
当被进一步问及是否认为奥卡西奥-科特兹相比佐治亚州参议员乔恩·奥索夫等人士更有资格成为2028年领先候选人时，万斯表示这取决于党内权力的归属。奥索夫作为潜在总统竞选人引发了一定关注，不过他眼下更紧迫的挑战是在中期选举中保住参议院席位。
“我想问题会是，‘你认为民主党党内谁真正拥有权力？’如果你认为答案是华尔街和中间偏左的商界群体，那奥索夫会是合适人选；如果你认为是大学群体，那就是奥卡西奥-科特兹，”他说道。
万斯辩称民主党“完全被极端分子掌控”。
“这就好比他们搞不懂经济民粹主义其实非常受欢迎这一点，我认为共和党人对此应该更加警惕，”他说道。
美国有线电视新闻网的阿莱特·萨恩斯对本文亦有贡献。
Vance says he believes AOC will be leading Democratic candidate in 2028
2026-06-30 6:24 PM ET / CNN
By Kit Maher
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attends a news conference in the US Capitol on March 25.
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Vice President JD Vance said that he believes Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will be the leading Democratic candidate for president 2028.
“I think it’s got to be AOC. I know that’s probably conventional wisdom,” Vance said during an interview on “The Michael Knowles Show” released Tuesday.
When the host argued that conventional wisdom pointed more toward California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Vance pushed back.
“No, no,” he said. “I don’t buy that. I think I think he hurt himself with his comment to an audience full of black Americans that I’m low IQ, just like you.”
Vance was referring to a comment Newsom made at an event promoting his book in Atlanta, where the California governor said, “I’m not trying to impress you. I’m just trying to impress upon you. I’m like you. I’m no better than you, you know, I’m a 960 SAT guy … you’ve never seen me read a speech, because I can’t read a speech.”
Vance is considered a possible leading GOP candidate for president; Donald Trump has openly mused about whether his vice president or Secretary of State Marco Rubio might succeed him. In recent days, Trump has turned his focus on Democrats’ left flank, seizing on the electoral success of several democratic socialist candidates to claim the party was being taken over by “godless Communists” who pose an existential threat to the nation.
Asked by CNN about Vance’s comments, Ocasio-Cortez smiled and said, “I hope he is” the nominee.
Pressed on whether he believed Ocasio-Cortez would be the leading 2028 candidate over someone like Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff, Vance said it will depend on where the power is held in the party. Ossoff has generated some buzz as a possible presidential contender, though he has a more immediate challenge of holding onto his Senate seat in the midterms.
“I guess the question would be, ‘Who do you think really has the power in the Democratic Party?’ And if you think the answer is like Wall Street and the left of center business community, then it would be Ossoff, and if you think it’s the universities, it would be AOC,” he said.
Vance argued that the Democrats are “just so dominated by the crazy people.”
“It’s like they can’t figure out the part where they get the economic populism, which actually is very popular, and I think Republicans should be more worried about that,” he said.
CNN’s Arlette Saenz contributed to this report.
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