参议院民主党领袖查克·舒默（纽约州）表示，在特朗普总统动荡的两年领导期后，该党“正处于夺回参议院控制权的边缘”，这两年恰逢全国物价上涨和华盛顿的党派斗争。
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) says that his party is “on the edge of taking back the Senate” after two turbulent years of President Trump’s leadership, which has coincided with rising prices across the nation and partisan warfare in Washington.
“我们民主党人在进入十月和最后冲刺阶段时顺风满帆，”舒默周三在国会大厦对记者说。“美国民众对高昂的生活成本和一个他们不相信为他们服务的政府感到沮丧。”
“We Dems have the wind in our sails heading into October and the final stretch,” Schumer told reporters at the Capitol Wednesday. “Americans are frustrated with higher costs and a government they don’t believe is working for them.”
他提到“飙升的成本”，如汽油和柴油价格，分别已上涨至全国平均每加仑4.41美元和6.53美元，“数百万”美国人因保费补贴到期和医疗补助削减而失去医疗保障，伊朗战争的不得人心，以及特朗普的激进驱逐政策。
He cited “soaring costs,” such as the price of gasoline and diesel, which have risen to $4.41 per gallon and $6.53 nationally, “millions” of Americans losing access health care because of the expiration of insurance premium subsidies and Medicaid cuts, the unpopularity of the war in Iran, and Trump’s aggressive deportation policies.
舒默表示，他的参议院民主党同僚们对夺回参议院多数党地位充满信心——或者至少赢得足够多的席位，使他们的党团在2028年处于夺回多数党的有利位置。
Schumer said his Senate Democratic colleagues are brimming with confidence about taking back the Senate majority — or at least picking up enough seats to put their conference in position to win back the majority in 2028.
“我们形势大好。与20个月前相比，大家对我们今天的处境真的非常、非常满意，”当被问及他在关键州选战中进步派候选人越来越多批评华盛顿党内建制派的情况下，作为民主党领袖的地位时，舒默说道。
“We’re in great shape. Everyone is really very, very pleased with where we are today compared to where we were 20 months ago,” Schumer said when asked about his standing as Democratic leader amid growing criticism of the party establishment in Washington by progressive candidates in battleground races.
“毫无疑问，这是一场胶着的选举。我们不想盲目乐观，但我们在一个又一个州看到的是，人们厌倦了特朗普，厌倦了共和党参议院追随他，他们看清了我们在主张上与他们的鲜明分界线，”他说。
“This election is a close election, there’s no question about it. We do not want to be overconfident but what we’re seeing in state after state after state is that people are sick of Trump, they’re sick of the Republican Senate going along with him, and they see the clear divisions we have drawn between what we stand for and what they stand for,” he said.
“这让我们站在了胜利的边缘，但我们仍有很长的路要走，”他继续说道。
“That has put us on the edge of victory but we still have a ways to go,” he continued.
在2024年其乐观预测落空后，舒默正在降低对下个月民主党在选举中大获全胜的预期。
Schumer is tempering his expectations of sweeping Democratic victories at the polls next month after falling short of his rosy projections in 2024.
这位来自纽约的资深参议员在2024年8月的民主党全国代表大会上曾预测，在卡玛拉·哈里斯作为总统候选人的带领下，民主党不仅能保住参议院多数席位，甚至有望增加席位。然而，随着共和党人吉姆·贾斯蒂斯赢得了接替即将退休的参议员乔·曼钦（西弗吉尼亚州独立人士）的席位，以及参议员谢罗德·布朗（俄亥俄州民主党人）、鲍勃·凯西（宾夕法尼亚州民主党人）和乔恩·泰斯特（蒙大拿州民主党人）竞选失利，民主党最终在2024年失去了四个席位，也失去了参议院的多数党地位。
The senior senator from New York predicted at the Democratic National Convention in August 2024 that Democrats would hold the Senate and were even poised to pick up seats with former Vice President Harris atop the ticket. Instead, Senate Democrats wound up losing four seats and the majority in 2024 after Republican Jim Justice won the race to replace retiring Sen. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) and Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Bob Casey (D-Pa.) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.) lost their races.
当被问及对其领导能力的批评时，舒默回答说：“我像北极星一样，全神贯注于赢回参议院。我认为人们认识到我们已经取得了许多成功，并且正非常接近目标。”他表示，在接下来的一个月里，他将通过与参议院候选人合作，“尽我所能”夺回参议院控制权，但他拒绝透露是否会前往任何摇摆州进行竞选活动。然而，参议院共和党人认为，由于苏珊·柯林斯（缅因州共和党人）和丹·沙利文（阿拉斯加州共和党人）等久经沙场的共和党现任议员在关键选区参选，他们仍有很大机会保持多数党地位。
Asked about criticism of his leadership, Schumer replied: “I have focused totally, like the north star, on winning back the Senate and I think people recognize that we’ve had a lot of success and are getting very close." He said he will be “doing everything I can” over the next month to take back the chamber by working with Senate candidates but declined to say whether he would travel to any battleground states to campaign. Senate Republicans, however, think they still have a good chance of keeping their majority as they have battle-tested GOP incumbents such as Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) running in key races.
民主党寄希望于受欢迎的前州长罗伊·库珀（民主党人）能赢得汤姆·蒂利斯（北卡罗来纳州共和党人）退休后空出的北卡罗来纳州参议院席位。但要赢得多数席位，他们还需要击败多年来在缅因州击败了一系列民主党挑战者的柯林斯，并赢得特朗普在2024年以绝对优势获胜的州，如艾奥瓦州、俄亥俄州和得克萨斯州。民主党需要净增四个席位才能夺回参议院多数党地位。
Democrats are counting on popular former Gov. Roy Cooper (D) to win the North Carolina Senate seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.). But to win the majority, they would also need to knock off Collins, who has defeated a string of Democratic challengers in Maine over the years, and also win in states that Trump won handily in 2024, such as Iowa, Ohio and Texas. Democrats need a net pick-up of four seats to win back the Senate majority.