共和党参议院领袖基金这一重要超级政治行动委员会正在调整战略：暂停在北卡罗来纳州参议院选举中的广告投放，转而开始在堪萨斯州展开新的宣传活动。
Senate Republicans’ top super PAC is making a tactical change, pausing its ad campaign in North Carolina’s Senate race and launching a new one in Kansas.
该委员会计划投入数百万美元，协助现任共和党参议员罗杰·马歇尔对抗民主党候选人亚当·汉密尔顿。
Senate Leadership Fund is plowing seven figures into Kansas to help incumbent Republican Sen. Roger Marshall against Democrat Adam Hamilton.
此前该委员会已在北卡罗来纳州选举中投入超过3000万美元，如今决定暂时停止在该地的支出。
After spending more than $30 million in North Carolina’s Senate race, the super PAC is putting further spending there on hold.
据Ad Impact数据显示，一个与特朗普立场一致的团体本周之后也并无进一步的竞选支出计划。
A Trump-aligned group also has no further spending on the books past this week either, according to Ad Impact.
一位了解内情的人士表示：“该委员会的使命是保住参议院多数席位，此次调整正是为实现这一目标而做出的资源最优配置。”
“SLF’s job is to maintain the majority and this move reflects the most effective and efficient use of resources to do exactly that,” said a person familiar with the plans.
近期该委员会还增加了在俄亥俄州和爱荷华州参议院选举上的投入。
The group also recently boosted its spending in Senate races in Ohio and Iowa.
这一战略调整反映出当前参议院选情的变化：一方面共和党人迈克尔·沃特利在北卡罗来纳州对抗前民主党州长罗伊·库珀时处境艰难；另一方面，另一家共和党团体上周也削减了在北卡罗来纳州的广告预算，不少共和党人士也呼吁盟友将精力集中到其他参议院选区。
The move to shore up Marshall and put North Carolina on the back burner reflects a shifting Senate battleground map – and Republican Michael Whatley’s struggles in North Carolina against former Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper. Another GOP group cut millions in North Carolina ad reservations last week and some Republicans have been urging their allies to concentrate on other Senate races.
在堪萨斯州，汉密尔顿的支持率与谋求连任的马歇尔不相上下——而该州近一个世纪以来从未有民主党人赢得过参议院席位。
In Kansas, Hamilton is running surprisingly close to Marshall, who is seeking a second term in a state where a Democrat hasn’t won a Senate race in nearly a century.
新发布的宣传广告将汉密尔顿描绘成“表里不一的极端分子”，旨在削弱其中间派形象，抨击其移民政策立场，并将其与卡玛拉·哈里斯、希拉里·克林顿等民主党人挂钩，称其“对堪萨斯州而言过于极端”。
The new SLF ad hits Hamilton as a “two-face extremist” and is aimed at eroding his centrist credibility with voters, dinging him on his immigration record and linking him to Democrats like Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton and calling him “too-extreme for Kansas.”
目前共和党在参议院拥有53个席位，包括北卡罗来纳州和堪萨斯州在内，只要不失去超过三个席位即可维持多数地位。——伯吉斯·埃弗雷特
Senate Republicans currently hold 53 seats, including North Carolina and Kansas, and can afford to lose up to three seats to keep the majority. — Burgess Everett