众议院金融服务委员会主席弗伦奇·希尔表示，他对在即将到来的中期选举中保住阿肯色州的席位“毫无顾虑”，但这位连任六届的众议员承认，他的政党面临政治逆风。“我认为目前的政治环境非常艰难，因为特朗普总统的支持率不高，而且正如我所说，人们担心过去四年生活在通胀经济下是什么滋味，”希尔在接受采访时表示。
House Financial Services Chair French Hill said he has “no concerns” about winning back his Arkansas seat in the upcoming midterm elections, but the six-term House member acknowledged the political headwinds for his party. “I consider the atmosphere a very tough political environment right now because of President [Donald] Trump's lack of favorability at the top, and you know people are concerned about, as I say, what it's like to live under an inflated economy the last four years,” Hill said in an interview.
据非党派的库克政治报告称，希尔所在的选区是稳固的红色选区，他表示这次面对的对手“比我过去参加竞选时遇到的都要弱”。然而，该选区的民调显示竞争更为激烈。今年进行的两次民调显示，民主党挑战者克里斯·琼斯以几个百分点的优势领先希尔。琼斯感知到的任何民调领先优势仍远在误差范围内，且其中一次民调的赞助商是民主党。
Hill is in a solidly red district, according to the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, and said he is up against a "weaker candidate this time than I've had in past races." Polling in the district, however, has shown a tighter race. The two polls done this year placed Democratic challenger Chris Jones ahead of Hill by a few percentage points. Any perceived polling victory for Jones is still well within the margin of error, and one of the polls had a Democratic sponsor.
琼斯的发言人斯蒂芬妮·莱恩·贝克表示：“在国会所有共和党人中，金融服务委员会主席无法逃避对当前经济的责任。他陷入麻烦了，他自己清楚。”
Stephannie Lane Baker, a spokesperson for Jones, said that "of all the Republicans in Congress, the chairman of the Financial Services Committee doesn't get to dodge responsibility for this economy.
此外，伊利诺伊州州长J·B·普里兹克的政治行动委员会“Ready for the Fight”承诺在未来五周内为琼斯在阿肯色州第二选区的竞选投入超过100万美元的电视广告费，该政治行动委员会的发言人乔丹·阿布达耶确认了这一消息。据广告追踪服务机构AdImpact统计，民主党在该竞选中的广告总支出刚刚超过100万美元，主要来自“Ready for the Fight”政治行动委员会的捐款，而共和党在广告购买上花费了近270万美元。
He's in trouble, and he knows it." Additionally, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker’s PAC, Ready for the Fight, committed more than $1 million in television ads through the next five weeks for Jones’ race in Arkansas’s 2nd District, Jordan Abudayyeh, a spokesperson for the PAC confirmed. Overall Democratic spending on advertising for the race was just over $1 million, primarily made up by contributions from the Ready for the Fight PAC, with Republicans spending almost $2.7 million on ad buys, according to AdImpact, an advertising tracking service.
希尔表示，他在本届国会“直面”了解决负担能力问题的工作。“我在住房方面的工作、我在《价格稳定法案》方面的工作、我为减少浪费、欺诈和滥用、降低联邦预算赤字占GDP比例所做的努力，”希尔说。
Hill said he has addressed affordability concerns “head on” this Congress. “My work on housing, my work on the Price Stability Act, my work to try to reduce waste, fraud, and abuse, and drop the federal budget deficit as a percentage of GDP,” Hill said.
“所有这些措施都有助于为人们创造一个负担得起的居住环境。因此，我今年一直将此作为竞选活动的重点。”希尔是《21世纪住房可及性法案》的主要起草者，这项获得两党支持的法案于今年7月正式成为法律。而《物价稳定法案》今年则不太可能获得通过，该法案旨在将美联储目前兼顾充分就业与物价稳定的双重使命调整为仅专注于抑制通货膨胀。
“All these things can contribute to a more affordable environment for people. So I've tried to make that a forefront of my campaign this year.”Hill was a key architect of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, a bipartisan housing affordability bill that became law in July. The Price Stability Act, which is unlikely to become law this year, would narrow the Federal Reserve’s current dual mandate of pursuing maximum employment and price stability to focus exclusively on containing inflation.