德克萨斯州参议院选举：在备受关注的德克萨斯州参议院选举中，共和党州检察长肯·帕克斯顿至今仍拒绝与民主党州众议员詹姆斯·塔拉里科进行辩论。在初选期间，这位饱受丑闻困扰的共和党候选人也曾拒绝与现任参议员约翰·科宁进行辩论。不过，塔拉里科现在收到了新的辩论邀请。
Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country. * In Texas’ closely watched U.S. Senate race, Republican state Attorney General Ken Paxton has so far declined invitations to debate his rival, Democratic state Rep. James Talarico, following a primary season in which the scandal-plagued GOP candidate also refused to debate incumbent Sen. John Cornyn. That said, Talarico has a new offer on the table.
塔拉里科周四在福克斯新闻上向帕克斯顿发起辩论挑战，他表示自己并不担心该媒体平台在共和党政治中的影响力。
Talarico on Thursday challenged Paxton to a debate on Fox News, saying he’s undeterred by the network’s role in Republican politics.
“德克萨斯州的选民理应在这一关键选举中做出明智的选择，因此我邀请帕克斯顿在德克萨斯州自己的地盘上进行辩论，”塔拉里科在德克萨斯论坛节上说道，“他一生都在逃避责任；是时候停止这种逃避行为了。”目前尚不清楚帕克斯顿是否会接受这一邀请。与此同时，前共和党州众议员格伦·罗杰斯成为了塔拉里科竞选广告的代言人，该广告已于本周开始播出。
“Texans deserve to make an informed choice in this really critical race, so I’m challenging Ken Paxton to a game on his own turf,” Talarico said at the Texas Tribune Festival. “He’s been running from accountability his whole life. It’s time to stop running.” Time will tell whether Paxton accepts the invitation, but in the meantime, former Republican state Rep. Glenn Rogers is the latest star of a Talarico ad, which began airing this week.
罗杰斯在广告中表示：“我永远不会信任帕克斯顿，也永远不会支持他；他根本不应该成为美国参议员。”
“I’ll never trust Ken Paxton; I’ll never support Ken Paxton; and the last place he should be is the United States Senate,” Rogers, who voted to impeach Paxton in 2023, says in the commercial.
威斯康星州州长选举：在威斯康星州的州长选举中，共和党候选人汤姆·蒂芙尼的竞选团队显然借鉴了白宫的媒体策略——他们本周禁止《密尔沃基纪事报》的一名记者参加相关活动。
“I’ll never trust Ken Paxton; I’ll never support Ken Paxton; and the last place he should be is the United States Senate,” Rogers, who voted to impeach Paxton in 2023, says in the commercial. * In Wisconsin’s gubernatorial race, Rep. Tom Tiffany’s Republican campaign is apparently borrowing a page from the White House’s media strategy, barring a reporter for The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel from an event this week.
缅因州参议院选举：在缅因州备受关注的参议院选举中，最新的一项民意调查显示，民主党候选人特洛伊·杰克逊以51%对47%的领先优势领先于现任共和党参议员苏珊·柯林斯。
- In Maine’s closely watched U.S. Senate race, the latest University of New Hampshire poll showed Democrat Troy Jackson ahead of incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins, 51% to 47%.
新罕布什尔州参议院选举：在同一州的参议院选举中，最新的一项民意调查显示，民主党众议员克里斯·帕帕斯以50%对42%的领先优势领先于前共和党参议员约翰·苏努努。
- And in New Hampshire’s U.S. Senate race, the latest University of New Hampshire poll finds Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas leading former Republican Sen. John Sununu, 50% to 42%.
新英格兰地区：佛蒙特州现任州长菲尔·斯科特虽然曾五次成功连任，但最新的一项民意调查显示，他的支持率落后于民主党候选人阿曼达·贾努6个百分点。
- Speaking of New England, Vermont’s Republican governor, Phil Scott, has easily won five times, but the latest University of New Hampshire poll actually shows him trailing Democrat Amanda Janoo by six points.
- 加利福尼亚州的州长竞选正朝着悬殊的结果发展：本周的两项全州民调显示，民主党人泽维尔·贝塞拉领先共和党人史蒂夫·希尔顿超过20个百分点。
- California’s gubernatorial race is on track for a lopsided finish: Two statewide polls this week showed Democrat Xavier Becerra ahead of Republican Steve Hilton by more than 20 points.
- 黄金州的其它动态：还记得河滨县共和党治安官查德·比安科在今年早些时候作为对选民欺诈进行怪异调查的一部分，扣押了数十万张选票吗？加利福尼亚州最高法院本周下令比安科归还选票，并裁定他缺乏发起此类行动的法定权力。
- Elsewhere in the Golden State: Remember when Chad Bianco, the Republican sheriff of Riverside County, seized hundreds of thousands of ballots earlier this year as part of a weird investigation into voter fraud? The California Supreme Court this week ordered Bianco to return the ballots and ruled that he lacked the legal authority to launch such a gambit.