2026年6月30日 / 美国东部时间早上6:00 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻（CBS News）
作者：凯特琳·伊莱克 政治记者
凯特琳·伊莱克是CBSNews.com驻华盛顿特区的政治记者。她曾供职于《华盛顿考察家报》和《国会山报》，并入选美国国家新闻基金会2022年保罗·米勒华盛顿报道奖学金项目。
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华盛顿讯 就在民主党反叛派在纽约州接连获胜一周后，焦点转向科罗拉多州：该州三场竞选的挑战正威胁着党内建制派支持的候选人——参议员迈克尔·贝内特、约翰·希肯卢珀以及众议员戴安娜·德盖特。
自2009年起代表科罗拉多州进入参议院的贝内特，去年宣布竞选州长后，原本被普遍认为可以轻松获得提名。但州检察长菲尔·韦瑟尔似乎正在缩小与贝内特的差距，他将自己塑造为一名斗士，称已通过数十起诉讼积极对抗特朗普政府。
作为温和派议员，贝内特曾在2020年参选总统，他在竞选活动中重点强调民生负担能力问题，以及他在华盛顿取得的成就，比如扩大儿童税收抵免政策。他在宣布竞选州长时曾表示，“解决我们面临的挑战的最佳方案不会来自华盛顿破碎的政治体系，而是来自科罗拉多州内部。”
但韦瑟尔试图将贝内特打上“与科罗拉多州民众脱节的华盛顿圈内人”的标签，并指责他支持过特朗普政府的几名内阁提名人选。
科罗拉多州第一国会选区的情况同样不容乐观：一名29岁的律师正对连任15届的德盖特发起强有力挑战，这是德盖特自1996年首次当选以来面临的最棘手的初选对手。梅拉特·基罗斯是一名民主社会主义者，幼年时随家人从埃塞俄比亚移民美国，今年3月在民主党代表大会上的表现超过了德盖特这位长期进步派议员，成功获得初选资格。德盖特仅以微弱优势获得30%的党内活动人士支持，勉强保住了参选席位。
基罗斯将德盖特描述为企业捐赠者的附庸，在本月初的一场候选人论坛上她表示：“要让民主党真正落实其进步主义议程，我们需要的议员必须不被收买，敢于站出来对抗亿万富翁和企业。”
在同一场论坛上，德盖特批评这位政治新人缺乏从政经验。
“现在不是冒险将毫无经验的人送进华盛顿的时候，”德盖特说道。
众议院少数党领袖、纽约州民主党议员哈基姆·杰弗里斯周一表示，德盖特正在“有力地为连任争取支持”，“我们拭目以待”。
“现实是我们正处于一个不稳定的选举环境中，当唐纳德·特朗普再次出任总统时，这种情况还将持续，”他在新闻发布会上说道。“今年在深蓝地区出现竞争激烈的初选并不意外，这些初选也正在本选举周期内上演。”
在参议院初选中，自2021年起代表该州、此前曾担任州长和丹佛市市长的希肯卢珀，正面临州参议员朱莉·冈萨雷斯的挑战。曾加入美国民主社会主义者组织的冈萨雷斯同样将自己标榜为反对建制派的斗士，同时主张科罗拉多州民众需要新一代领导人。
民主党初选的获胜者预计将在11月的大选中占据显著优势。科罗拉多州已有二十多年没有选出共和党籍州长，自2014年以来也从未选出过共和党参议员。2024年，德盖特以超过75%的得票率赢得科罗拉多州第一国会选区席位。
科罗拉多州的初选斗争是近期各地出现的趋势的最新例证：进步派和民主社会主义者正试图撼动甚至从根本上改变民主党，这一态势可能将定义本次选举周期。
今年已有多名获得全国民主党支持的民主党候选人败于反建制派候选人之手，例如格雷厄姆·普拉特纳在缅因州参议院初选中击败州长珍妮特·米尔斯，以及纽约州众议员阿德里亚诺·埃斯帕利亚尔和丹·戈德曼落选。
埃斯帕利亚尔和戈德曼输给了纽约市市长佐赫兰·曼达尼支持的挑战者。曼达尼还在退休众议员妮迪亚·维拉兹奎兹空出的席位竞选中发挥了关键作用，支持一名民主社会主义者候选人对抗维拉兹奎兹支持的人选。
曼达尼在上周获胜后表示，这表明“纽约民众渴望一种全新的政治模式”。
Democratic primaries in Colorado mark latest fight over party’s direction amid push by insurgents
June 30, 2026 / 6:00 AM EDT / CBS News
By Caitlin Yilek Politics Reporter
Caitlin Yilek is a politics reporter at CBSNews.com, based in Washington, D.C. She previously worked for the Washington Examiner and The Hill, and was a member of the 2022 Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellowship with the National Press Foundation.
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Washington — One week after Democratic insurgent victories in New York, the focus is now moving to Colorado, where challenges in a trio of races are threatening candidates backed by the party establishment — Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper and Rep. Diana DeGette.
Bennet, who’s represented Colorado in the upper chamber since 2009, had long been expected to sail to the nomination after he announced a bid for the governor’s mansion last year. But state Attorney General Phil Weiser has appeared to cut into Bennet’s lead, casting himself as a fighter who’s been willing to take on the Trump administration with dozens of lawsuits.
Bennet, a moderate who also ran for president in 2020, has emphasized affordability issues in his campaign, as well as his achievements in Washington like the expanded Child Tax Credit. When he announced his campaign for governor, he claimed that the “best solutions to our challenges will not come from Washington’s broken politics,” but from within Colorado.
But Weiser has attempted to label Bennet as a Washington insider out of touch with Coloradans, and railed against him for supporting a handful of President Trump’s Cabinet picks.
Then there’s Colorado’s 1st Congressional District, where a 29-year-old lawyer is mounting a serious challenge against 15-term DeGette, proving to be the most formidable primary opponent the incumbent has faced since she was first elected in 1996. Melat Kiros, a democratic socialist whose family immigrated from Ethiopia when she was a baby, outperformed DeGette, a longtime progressive, at the Democratic Party assembly in March to qualify for the primary. DeGette only narrowly cleared the threshold of 30% support of party activists to secure a spot on the ballot.
Kiros has cast DeGette as beholden to corporate donors, saying at a candidate forum earlier this month that “in order for the Democratic Party to actually fulfill its progressive agenda, we need to have members that are unbought and unafraid to stand up to the billionaires and corporations.”
In the same forum, DeGette criticized the political newcomer’s lack of experience.
“Now is not the time to gamble and send somebody with no experience to Washington,” DeGette said.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, a New York Democrat, said Monday that DeGette is “forcefully making her case” for reelection and “we’ll see what happens.”
“The reality is we have an unsettled electoral environment, which is going to be the case when Donald Trump is president,” he said at a news conference. “It’s not a surprise that there are highly competitive primaries in deep blue parts of the country that are also unfolding this cycle.”
In the Senate primary, Hickenlooper, who’s represented the state since 2021, after serving as governor and Denver mayor, is facing a challenge from state Sen. Julie Gonzales. Gonzales, once a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, has likewise billed herself as a fighter opposing the establishment, while arguing that Coloradans need a new generation of leadership.
The winners of the Democratic primaries are expected to have a significant edge in the general election in November. Colorado hasn’t elected a Republican to the governor’s mansion in more than two decades, and the state hasn’t sent a Republican to the Senate since 2014. In 2024, DeGette won Colorado’s 1st Congressional District with more than 75% of the vote.
The fight in Colorado’s primaries is the latest example of a trend cropping up elsewhere, with progressives and democratic socialists seeking to shake up or fundamentally change the Democratic Party, in a dynamic that could define the cycle.
Already, a number of Democratic candidates backed by national Democrats have fallen to anti-establishment candidates this year, like with Graham Platner’s rise over Gov. Janet Mills in the party’s Maine Senate primary, along with the defeat of Reps. Adriano Espaillat and Dan Goldman in New York.
Espaillat and Goldman lost to challengers backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who also played kingmaker in the open race for retiring Rep. Nydia Velazquez’s seat, endorsing a democratic socialist candidate against one backed by Velazquez.
Mamdani said after the victories last week that it showed “New Yorkers are hungry for a new kind of politics.”
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