2020年时他竭尽全力。如今，眼看自己的总统任期前景堪忧，他再度加大努力。大家都明白我们在说什么：特朗普在试图干预选举。
He tried really, really hard in 2020. With his souring presidency on the line, he’s intensifying his efforts again. You know what we’re talking about: Trump’s election meddling.
“2020年之后，我认为我们当中有些人——可惜并非所有人——终于意识到：我们的民主制度其实十分脆弱，”华盛顿特区分社社长大卫·科恩在我们新推出的播客节目第一集中说道。该节目堪称中期选举的惊险指南。“即便有种种制度约束，特朗普依然险些得逞。”事实上试图干预选举的可不止特朗普一人——这一点大卫本人深有体会。
“After 2020, I think one of the lessons that some of us learned—but unfortunately not everybody—is that our democracy is fragile,” says Washington, DC, bureau chief David Corn in the very first episode of our new podcast, , a white-knuckle guide to the midterm elections. “Trump came pretty close, even with all the guardrails.”And Trump isn’t the only one meddling—to which David can personally attest.
他的新书出版后不久，那些他在书中提到的俄罗斯虚假信息操弄者便开始散布他的深度伪造视频，声称他写了一本截然不同的书：一本详细列举了300项民主党候选人所犯罪行的书。
Shortly after the release of his new book, , the very Russian disinformation operators he wrote about started circling deepfake videos of him, claiming he’d written a very different book: one detailing 300 crimes committed by Democratic candidates.
在本期节目中，大卫和联合主持人加里森·海耶斯与投票权记者阿里·伯曼一起探讨了中期选举面临的最大压力测试：投票是否会顺利进行，或者特朗普是否会干预更多。毕竟，特朗普和他的帮派已经声称选举将被“操纵”，宣扬虚假的选民欺诈指控，试图扰乱邮寄投票，并要求提供可用于挑战或清洗选民的选民名册数据。
In this episode, David and co-host Garrison Hayes are joined by voting rights correspondent Ari Berman to pull apart the biggest stress test facing the midterms: whether the vote will proceed smoothly, or whether Trump will meddle even more. After all, Trump and his gang are already claiming the election will be “rigged,” pushing false voter-fraud claims, trying to disrupt mail voting, and demanding voter-roll data that could be used to challenge or purge voters.
然后是影响2026年大部分时间的选区重新划分战争，以及最高法院在稀释黑人政治权力方面的作用。在上个月的共和党中期代表大会上，特朗普甚至带领人群表演性地开玩笑地承诺“拼命作弊”。（“当有人这么明确地说出来时，真的很难相信，”加里森目瞪口呆地说。）这一集呈现了希望与恐惧的混合体。到目前为止，特朗普的许多努力都以失败告终：阿里指出，司法部在联邦法院以0比25的比分迫使各州交出选民名册。他的建议是：“不要赋予特朗普比他实际拥有的更多权力。”
Then there are the redistricting wars that have shaped so much of 2026, and the Supreme Court’s role in diluting Black political power. At last month’s Republican midterm convention, Trump even went so far as to lead the crowd in a performatively jokey pledge to “cheat like hell.” (“It’s kind of hard to believe when someone says it so explicitly,” says a dumbfounded Garrison.) The episode presents a blend of hope and fear. Many of Trump’s efforts have flopped so far: The Justice Department, Ari notes, is 0-25 in federal court in its bid to force states to hand over their voter rolls. His advice: “Don’t give Trump any more power than he actually has.”
但是最高法院为更有序的操纵行为留下了足够的空间，比如不公正划分选区。“所以你不能偷，”正如大卫所说，“但你可以倾斜。”阿里认为，投票前发生的事情可能不是最重要的。“我们在2020年看到的是投票结束后一切都失控了。所以这就是为什么我不想坐在这里说，“每个人都很好，没有必要压力，我们都很好。”因为我们不知道下一阶段会发生什么，即人们投票、计票以及选举经过认证。”
But the Supreme Court has left plenty of room for a more orderly kind of rigging, like gerrymandering. “So you can’t steal,” as David puts it, “but you can tilt.”And Ari argues that what happens before the vote may not be what matters most. “What we saw in 2020 is all hell broke loose after voting ended. And so that’s why I don’t want to sit here and say, like, ‘Everyone’s fine, no need to stress, we’re all good.’ Because we don’t know what’s going to happen in those next phases where people vote, where votes are counted, and where elections are certified.”