2026年5月30日 / 美国东部时间下午5:51 / 美联社
美国马萨诸塞州温和派民主党众议员赛思·莫尔顿已于周六获得足够多的代表支持，得以入选该州初选选票，正式在今年的参议院选举中挑战现任参议员埃德·马基。
尽管莫尔顿跨过了继续参选参议员的关键障碍，但马基凭借超过50%的代表支持率赢得了民主党党内背书。
“你们有选择，必须决定未来的模样以及自己将提出何种诉求，”马基周六在四千多名代表面前发表讲话。
马萨诸塞州初选将于9月1日举行。
马基获得了近73%的代表支持票，莫尔顿则获得近27%的选票。根据马萨诸塞州民主党规则，全州范围内的候选人必须获得至少15%的代表支持才能入选初选选票。
在民主党占绝对优势的马萨诸塞州，这场参议院初选是全美最受关注的竞选之一。现年47岁的莫尔顿将竞选核心放在变革现状、要求领导层代际更迭上。
如果成功连任，马基在第三届六年任期开始时将年满80岁。尽管马基一直强调自己精力充沛且拥护进步政策，但随着民主党人努力夺回国会控制权，有关他年龄的质疑一直萦绕在民主党候选人身边。
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在提名演讲中，莫尔顿辩称民主党需要的不仅仅是“渐进式变革”，而是要开启全新局面。
“是时候让伴随互联网成长、将在未来数十年与人工智能共存的这一代人来引领我们前行了，”莫尔顿说道。
莫尔顿在提名演讲中仅简要提及了对手，顺带提及不应再等待六年才实现代际变革，随后呼吁马基在9月初选前参加多场辩论。目前，两位候选人已同意今夏晚些时候进行一场辩论。
而马基则采取了更为尖锐的批评态度，抨击莫尔顿此前有关跨性别儿童的言论以及接受企业政治行动委员会资金的行为。
“马萨诸塞州不应接纳一个将跨性别儿童作为替罪羊的参议员，”马基的发言引来全场热烈欢呼。
2024年，莫尔顿因称不希望自己的女儿在体育赛事中与跨性别女孩同场竞技，遭到党内部分成员的批评。批评人士表示，莫尔顿呼应了特朗普总统有关允许跨性别运动员参加女子体育赛事的言论。
莫尔顿随后表示，他发表该言论的初衷“是想指出，作为一个政党，我们需要勇于展开艰难对话”。
莫尔顿在2001年“9·11”袭击后参军入伍，曾四次赴伊参战，2014年首次当选众议院议员。他曾短暂启动2020年总统竞选，但数月后便退出。
马基在2013年当选参议员前，已担任马萨诸塞州众议员近40年。2020年，他借助进步派盟友的支持，击败了来自美国最知名政治家族的年轻对手众议员乔·肯尼迪三世，成功守住参议院席位。
Rep. Seth Moulton to take on Sen. Ed Markey in Massachusetts Democratic Senate primary
May 30, 2026 / 5:51 PM EDT / AP
U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton, a moderate Massachusetts Democrat, secured enough delegate support Saturday to appear on the state’s primary ballot as he challenges incumbent Sen. Ed Markey in this year’s Senate race.
Yet even though Moulton cleared a key hurdle to continue his Senate bid, it was Markey who won the party’s endorsement after winning more than 50% of the delegation’s support.
“You have a choice, you have to decide what the future looks like and what you’re going to demand,” Markey said Saturday in front of more than 4,000 delegates.
The Massachusetts primary is Sept. 1.
Markey won nearly 73% of the delegates’ support, while Moulton won nearly 27% of the vote. Massachusetts Democratic Party rules require statewide candidates to get at least 15% of delegate support to appear on primary ballots.
In heavily Democratic Massachusetts, the Senate primary contest is one of the most closely watched in the country as Moulton, 47, has centered his campaign on changing the status quo and demanding a generational shift in leadership.
If reelected, Markey would be 80 before his third six-year term would begin. While Markey has touted his stamina and embrace of progressive policies, questions about age have continued to swirl around Democratic candidates as they fight to take back control of Congress.
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In his nomination speech, Moulton argued that the Democratic Party needed more than “incremental change” and needed to start anew.
“It’s time for the generation that grew up with the internet, and will have to live for decades with AI, to lead our way through it,” Moulton said.
Moulton only addressed his opponent briefly during his nomination speech, giving a passing nod on not waiting another six years for generational change and later calling on Markey to participate in multiple debates before the September primary. Currently, the two candidates have agreed to participate in one debate later this summer.
Markey, instead, took a more critical approach by attacking Moulton’s previous comments about transgender kids and accepting corporate PAC money.
“Massachusetts deserves better than a senator who scapegoats trans kids,” Markey said to loud cheers.
In 2024, Moulton caught flak from some members of his party for saying he didn’t want his daughters playing in sports against transgender girls. Critics said Moulton echoed President Trump’s talking points against allowing transgender athletes in girls’ and women’s sports.
Moulton has since said his intent with that statement “was to point out that, as a party, we need to be willing to have difficult conversations.”
Moulton, who enlisted in the Marines after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and served four tours of duty in Iraq, was first elected to the House in 2014. He briefly launched a 2020 presidential campaign, but he dropped that bid after a few months.
Markey served as a Massachusetts congressman for nearly 40 years before winning the Senate seat in 2013. He fended off a challenge in 2020 from Rep. Joe Kennedy III in the Senate primary by turning to his progressive allies to overcome a challenge from a younger rival from America’s most famous political family.
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