共和党高层正在放弃那些胜负难料的选区，转而全力保住那些传统上属于共和党优势州的席位。
Top Republicans are giving up on races in purple territory and racing to save seats in deep-red states.
为保住在众议院和参议院的多数席位，共和党人大量投放竞选广告。然而，他们原本显著的财务优势如今正逐渐显现出局限性。
Republicans are flooding the electoral map with a deluge of advertising to defend their House and Senate majorities. But their once-towering financial advantage is starting to show its limits.
近期，各共和党竞选组织开始顺应严峻的政治形势，将资金从原本认为胜算不大的选区撤出，转而用于巩固那些原本稳固但如今也变得岌岌可危的红色州席位。
In recent days, Republican campaign groups began to make concessions to the punishing political environment, shifting money away from races they no longer believe to be winnable and falling back to reinforce another tier of seats in solidly red states that no longer look safe.
在放弃了唐纳德·特朗普曾三次赢得选举的北卡罗来纳州的参议院席位后，相关组织转而投入资金来保卫南卡罗来纳州的席位。同时，他们在堪萨斯州也加大了宣传力度，而该州近一个世纪以来都未曾出现过民主党人赢得参议院选举的情况。
After abandoning a GOP-held Senate seat in North Carolina — a state President Donald Trump won three times — the outside groups began spending money to defend a seat in South Carolina. And they’re intensifying their advertising in Kansas, where Democrats haven’t won a Senate race in nearly a century.
在争夺众议院控制权的斗争中，全国层面的共和党人则放弃了保卫内布拉斯加州的一个倾向民主党的席位，该席位过去十年一直由即将退休的共和党众议员唐·培根占据。
In the battle for control of the House, national Republicans gave up on defending a blue-leaning seat in Nebraska held for a decade by retiring GOP Rep. Don Bacon.