决选投票率下降56%，但莫琳·加林多保住了3月初选时的大部分基本盘
2026年5月27日 美国东部时间下午5:16 / 福克斯新闻
作者：伊莱恩·马伦
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汤姆·霍曼称得克萨斯州民主党众议院候选人莫琳·加林多为“白痴”
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共和党和民主党战略家均认为，尽管有人试图将这次失败渲染为对极左翼极端主义的拒绝，但得克萨斯州民主党候选人莫琳·加林多的落败并非一些民主党人所称的“路线修正”。加林多曾称应将犹太复国主义者关押在移民海关执法局（ICE）的拘留营中。
加林多在决选选举几周前播出的一档播客中提出，应将“亿万富翁犹太复国主义者”关押在得克萨斯州卡恩斯的ICE拘留设施内，这一言论引发了两党大规模的强烈反对，批评者称加林多的言论是在提议设立集中营。
美国国会民主党领导层尤其明确谴责了加林多。众议院少数党领袖、纽约州民主党议员哈基姆·杰弗里斯与民主党国会竞选委员会主席苏珊·德尔贝内联合发表声明，称加林多的言论“恶毒”且“丧失参选资格”。
作为对舆论反弹的回应，加林多在一份声明中称，她从未呼吁设立“集中营”，并将这场风波归咎于一名“不道德的记者”炮制的标题。
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莫琳·加林多在得克萨斯州的一次妇女选民联盟会议上发言。（卡蒂娜·曾茨/盖蒂图片社）
加林多在周二的决选中落败，仅获得约36%的选票。她的对手约翰尼·加西亚被视为温和派民主党人，以63.8%的得票率赢得决选。早在3月，加林多以29.2%的得票率勉强赢得该州初选，加西亚以27%的得票率位居第二。
“我认为，无论共和党捐赠者如何极力推动这位民主党初选候选人，选民们都看清了她，并且表示‘我们不希望众议院里出现一个疯子’，”进步派脱口秀主持人汤姆·哈特曼告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
就在加林多关于关押犹太复国主义者的言论公开几天后，被怀疑与共和党捐赠者有关联的神秘超级政治行动委员会“领先左翼”向加林多的竞选活动捐赠了50万美元。这种怀疑部分源于《潘趣碗新闻》的一篇报道，该报道发现“领先左翼”PAC的网站元数据中嵌入了共和党筹款平台WinRed的链接。
“我认为更有意思的是，‘领先左翼’——这个由共和党捐赠者组成的超级PAC——一直在推动她的竞选，”哈特曼告诉福克斯新闻。
民主党人因对丑闻缠身的缅因州候选人态度软化而遭到左右两派抨击
美国众议院第35选区候选人莫琳·加林多（左）与约翰尼·加西亚于2026年5月6日周三在圣安东尼奥布鲁克斯中心西德尼会议室参加由圣安东尼奥地区妇女选民联盟举办的论坛。（卡蒂娜·曾茨/《圣安东尼奥快报-新闻》 via 盖蒂图片社）
“‘嘿，我们找一个古怪的左翼性治疗师，让她发表反犹言论，然后在民主党初选中大力推广她’，他们就是这么做的，而且谢天谢地她输了，”哈特曼说。“我的意思是，这种候选人会损害民主党的形象。”
但共和党政治战略家本·弗格森反驳了“加林多的极端观点与当前民主党候选人阵营格格不入”的说法，他指出缅因州民主党参议院候选人格雷厄姆·普拉特纳曾有纳粹纹身。
“如果民主党选民真的在反抗激进左翼，那么为什么党内一些最响亮、上升最快的声音仍在推行大多数美国人认为完全脱离主流的理念？”弗格森告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
中期选举后中间派民主党人与极左翼决裂：‘身份政治’正在‘绝对地扼杀我们’
缅因州民主党人、参议院候选人格雷厄姆·普拉特纳于2026年3月6日在缅因州南波特兰发表讲话。（索菲亚·阿尔迪尼奥/彭博社）
“事实是，民主党人并没有拒绝极端主义——他们只是拒绝了那些在有线电视新闻上政治上站不住脚的极端主义版本，”弗格森继续说道。
曾为民主党竞选团队工作过的政治分析师理查德·戈登认为，加林多的落败更多反映了她触及了支持上限，而非选民的路线修正。他指出，与初选相比，决选的投票率下降了56%，加林多的总得票数也下降了约44%，这表明她保住了大部分基本盘。
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“我不认为选民们进行了太多自我修正，而是她触及了自己的支持上限，永远不可能获胜，因为更温和、在意识形态上更贴近选民的加西亚先生能够整合初选中其他候选人的选票，”戈登告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。“别忘了，加林多第一次仅获得了29.2%的选票。这意味着70%的选民想要其他人，这与加西亚先生在决选中获得的64%的得票率相差无几。”
“在我看来，加林多无论如何都会输，”戈登说。“与其说她对进步派来说太过分，不如说她对这个选区来说过于自由派了。”
伊莱恩·马伦是福克斯新闻数字频道和福克斯商业频道的撰稿人，报道全国政治。
Big loss for Democrat who wanted ‘Zionists’ in camps may still signal big trouble on horizon
Voter turnout dropped 56% in the run-off, but Maureen Galindo retained most of her base from the March primary
May 27, 2026 5:16pm EDT / Fox News
By Elaine Mallon
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Both Republican and Democratic strategists argued that the defeat of Texas Democrat Maureen Galindo — a congressional candidate who said Zionists should be held in ICE detention centers — was not the “course correction” some Democrats claimed, despite efforts to frame the loss as a rejection of far-left extremism.
Galindo’s suggestion on a podcast that aired just weeks before the runoff election that “billionaire Zionists” should be imprisoned at the Karnes ICE facility in Texas garnered massive blowback from Democrats and Republicans alike, who alleged Galindo’s comment was a proposal for internment camps.
Congressional Democratic leadership in particular was vocal in their condemnation of Galindo. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., issued a joint statement with Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chair Suzan DelBene calling Galindo’s words “vile” and “disqualifying.”
In response to the backlash, Galindo shared in a statement claiming that she never called for “internment camps,” blaming the uproar over a headline by an “unethical journalist.”
DEMOCRATS VOW TO VOTE ‘EVERY SINGLE DAY’ TO EXPEL FELLOW DEM FROM CONGRESS IF SHE WINS MIDTERM
Maureen Galindo speaks at a League of Women Voters meeting in Texas.(Katina Zentz/Getty Images)
Galindo lost Tuesday’s runoff election, capturing roughly 36% of the vote. Her opponent, Johnny Garcia, who is viewed as a moderate Democrat, won the runoff race with 63.8% of the vote. Back in March, Galindo narrowly won the state’s primary with 29.2% of the vote. Garcia was a close second, winning 27% of the vote.
“I think no matter how hard the Republican donors pushed this Democratic primary candidate, that the voters looked at her and said, ‘Now we don’t want a nut case here in the House of Representatives,’” progressive talk show host Thom Hartmann told Fox News Digital.
Just days after Galindo’s comments about imprisoning Zionists became public, Lead Left PAC, a mysterious super PAC suspected of having ties to Republican donors, donated half a million dollars to Galindo’s campaign. The suspicions stemmed in part from a Punchbowl News report that found links to WinRed — the GOP’s fundraising platform — embedded in the metadata of Lead Left PAC’s website.
“I think probably the more interesting part of this is that Lead Left —this super PAC that is filled with Republican donors — was pushing her,” Hartmann told Fox News.
DEMOCRAT BLASTED BY LEFT AND RIGHT AFTER SOFTENING STANCE ON SCANDAL-HIT MAINE CANDIDATE
Maureen Galindo, left, and Johnny Garcia, candidates for U.S. House District 35, participate in a forum held by the League of Women Voters of the San Antonio Area in the Sidney Board Room at Brooks in San Antonio on Wednesday, May 6, 2026.(Katina Zentz / San Antonio Express-News via Getty Images)
“‘Hey, let’s find a wacky lefty sex therapist who will make antisemitic remarks, and let’s really promote her in a Democratic primary,’ which is what they did, and you know it’s a good thing she lost,” Hartmann said. “I mean this is the kind of candidate that does damage to the Democrats.”
But Republican political strategist Ben Ferguson pushed back on the notion that Galindo’s extremist views are out of step with the current crop of Democratic candidates, pointing to Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, who has a Nazi tattoo.
“If Democratic voters were truly revolting against the activist-left, then why are some of the loudest and fastest-rising voices in the party still pushing ideas that most Americans consider completely outside the mainstream?” Ferguson told Fox News Digital.
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Graham Platner, a Democrat from Maine and U.S. Senate candidate, speaks in South Portland, Maine, on March 6, 2026.(Sofia Aldinio/Bloomberg)
“The truth is Democrats are not rejecting extremism — they’re only rejecting the versions that become politically impossible to defend on cable news,” Ferguson continued.
Richard Gordon, a political analyst who previously worked on Democratic campaigns, suggested that Galindo’s defeat was more a reflection of her hitting a ceiling than a course correction among voters. He noted that voter turnout dropped by 56% in the runoff compared to the primary election and that Galindo’s vote total also dropped by about 44%, signaling she retained most of her base.
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“I don’t think the voters self-corrected as much as she hit her ceiling and was never going to win as Mr. Garcia, the more moderate and closer to the electorate philosophically candidate, was able to consolidate the vote of the other candidates in the primary,” Gordon told Fox News Digital. “Let’s not forget that Ms. Galindo only received 29.2% of the vote the first time. That means that 70% of voters wanted someone else, which is close to the 64% that Mr. Garcia received in the runoff.”
“In my view, Ms. Galindo would have lost anyway,” Gordon said. “She wasn’t a bridge too far for progressives as much as she was just too liberal for this district.”
Elaine Mallon is a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business covering national politics.
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