10月7日——路透社的一项审查发现，在美国国会众议院和参议院具有竞争力的选区中，三分之二的共和党候选人已在政策问题上与特朗普总统分道扬镳，或淡化与其的关联。这反映出，随着特朗普总统日益不受欢迎，共和党正广泛努力与其保持距离，以避免其威胁到该党对国会的掌控。
Oct 7 - Two-thirds of Republican candidates in competitive US House and Senate races have broken with President Donald Trump on policy or played down ties to him, a Reuters review found, revealing a widespread effort to distance themselves from the president as his unpopularity threatens the party's hold on Congress.
通过对投票记录、公开声明和竞选材料的审查发现，在62个具有竞争力的国会选区中，有41个选区的候选人在11月3日中期选举前，都试图与特朗普保持一定距离。
The review of voting records, public statements and campaign materials found candidates in 41 of 62 competitive congressional races seeking some distance from Trump ahead of the November 3 midterm elections.
这些候选人大多针对具体议题批评或与特朗普持不同立场，而非全面否定其整体议程。研究结果表明，他们正试图吸引独立选民，同时避免与党内领袖直接决裂。
The candidates have largely criticized or diverged from Trump on individual issues rather than repudiated his broader agenda. The findings suggest an effort to attract independent voters while avoiding a direct break with their party leader.
政策分歧是最常见的分歧点，在62个选区中有23个选区存在这种情况。
Policy differences were the most common point of divergence, appearing in 23 of the 62 races.
在12场竞选中，分歧焦点集中在伊朗冲突上。处境不利的共和党候选人要么投票限制特朗普的战争权力，要么公开呼吁结束这场已推高油价、压缩家庭预算的冲突。
In 12 contests, the split centered on the Iran conflict, with vulnerable Republicans either voting to curb Trump's war powers or calling publicly for an end to the fighting that has raised gas prices and squeezed household budgets.
数据中心也是特朗普与部分共和党候选人之间存在分歧的议题之一。路透社发现，在具有竞争力的选区中，有三位候选人批评或试图减缓此类项目的发展，尽管特朗普支持加快相关建设。
Data centers are among the issues dividing Trump and some Republican candidates. Reuters identified three candidates in competitive races who have criticized or sought to slow such projects despite the president's support for faster development.
这一转变尤为引人注目，因为过去十年间，特朗普一直按照自己的形象重塑共和党，并对那些通过初选挑战、人身攻击或公开施压迫使其就范的议员和候选人迅速予以惩罚。
The shift is notable because Trump has spent the past decade remaking the Republican Party in his own image and has been swift to punish lawmakers and candidates who defied him through primary challenges, personal attacks or public pressure to fall into line.
针对路透社的调查结果，白宫发言人戴维斯·英格尔提到了政府的各项成就，并表示特朗普是该党“无可争议的领袖、最佳传声筒和无人能及的激励者”。
In response to questions about the Reuters findings, White House spokesman Davis Ingle pointed to the administration's accomplishments and said Trump was "the unequivocal leader, best messenger and unmatched motivator" for the party.
尽管新闻机构已经关注过一些与特朗普保持距离的个案，但路透社的这项审查首次系统性地衡量了这一趋势，涉及多场将决定共和党能否保住国会任一或两院控制权的竞争性选举。
While news organizations have highlighted individual cases of distancing, the Reuters review is the first to systematically measure the trend across competitive races that will decide whether Republicans retain control of either or both chambers of Congress.
路透社与益普索（Ipsos）的一项新民意调查凸显了共和党所面临的挑战：特朗普的支持率仍停留在其职业生涯中的最低点——32%，而在中期选举前，选民以44%对37%的比例更倾向于民主党而非共和党。在独立选民中，民主党以37%对21%领先。
A new Reuters/Ipsos poll underscored the challenge facing Republicans: Trump's approval rating remained stuck at a career-low 32%, whileed voters favored Democrats over Republicans 44% to 37% ahead of the midterms. Among independents, Democrats led 37% to 21%.
与特朗普保持距离 路透社还发现，许多候选人正努力淡化与特朗普的关联：十几位候选人从竞选网站上删除了他的姓名、照片或支持声明，其中多数是在获得党内提名之后采取的行动。
CREATING DISTANCE FROM TRUMP Reuters also found a broad effort to play down ties: A dozen candidates removed his name, image or endorsements from campaign websites, most after securing their party's nomination.
其他人则采取了更微妙的方式，例如不参加他的活动，或拒绝表明他是否应该代表他们进行竞选。
Others acted in subtler ways, skipping his events or declining to say whether he should campaign on their behalf.
直接批评相对罕见，这凸显了特朗普在共和党内的主导地位，以及候选人在公开挑战一位仍拥有众多忠实支持者的总统时所面临的风险。
Direct criticism was relatively rare, underscoring Trump's dominance of the Republican Party and the risks candidates face in openly challenging a president who still commands the loyalty of many ardent supporters.
候选人在选举前与不受欢迎的总统保持距离并非罕见。民主党在2014年和2022年的选举中也采取了类似策略。
Candidates distancing themselves from an unpopular president before an election is not unusual. Democrats employed similar tactics in the 2014 and 2022 elections.
尽管路透社并未对特朗普首个任期内2018年中期选举中的竞争性选区进行类似审查，但分析人士指出，特朗普很少遭遇如此广泛来自弱势共和党候选人的抵制。
While Reuters did not conduct a comparable review of competitive races in the 2018 midterms during Trump's first term, analysts said Trump has rarely faced such widespread pushback by vulnerable Republican candidates.
共和党策略家罗恩·邦让（Ron Bonjean）表示：“（这些候选人）反映了这些选区中选民的态度。如果（选民）不支持特朗普，他们就需要表明自己与之划清界限。”竞选团队顾问私下告诉路透社，候选人需要减少与特朗普的关联，以吸引独立选民。但在公开场合，他们则驳斥了对这种立场调整的批评。
"(Candidates) are reflecting voter attitudes in these races," said Republican strategist Ron Bonjean. "If (voters) are not with Trump, then they need to show a break." Privately, campaign advisers told Reuters that candidates needed to dial back ties to Trump to attract independent voters. Publicly, they dismissed criticism of the repositioning.
平衡法案共和党参议员皮特·里基茨（Pete Ricketts）面临着内布拉斯加州独立人士丹·奥斯本（Dan Osborn）的严峻挑战，他列举了路透社确定的11名候选人，他们在一个政策问题上与特朗普决裂，同时在其他所有问题上支持他。
BALANCING ACT Republican Senator Pete Ricketts, who faces a tough challenge from independent Dan Osborn in Nebraska, exemplifies the 11 candidates identified by Reuters who broke with Trump on one policy issue while backing him on everything else.
本周，批评特朗普扩大牛肉进口计划的里基茨与总统一起参加内布拉斯加州的一次集会，这种平衡行为得到了体现。“特朗普总统，我一直在华盛顿为你而战，”里基茨告诉人群。
The balancing act was on display this week when Ricketts, who criticized Trump's plan to expand beef imports, joined the president at a Nebraska rally. "President Trump, I have been fighting for you in Washington," Ricketts told the crowd.
玛丽安娜特·米勒-米克斯（Mariannette Miller-Meeks）是爱荷华州美国竞争最激烈的众议院竞选之一的共和党人，她也表现出越来越强烈的与政府决裂的意愿。她是路透社确定的12名候选人之一，他们在多个问题上与特朗普产生分歧，批评他的牛肉进口政策，后来在此前反对类似措施后投票限制他在伊朗的战争权力。
Mariannette Miller-Meeks, a Republican in one of the country's most competitive House races in Iowa, has also shown a growing willingness to break with the administration. She was among 12 candidates identified by Reuters who split with Trump on multiple issues, criticizing his beef-import policy and later voting to limit his war powers in Iran after previously opposing similar measures.
然而，在战争权力投票后不到两周，米勒-米克斯就与特朗普一起入主白宫，宣布在爱荷华州投资一家大型钢铁厂。
Yet, less than two weeks after her war-powers vote, Miller-Meeks joined Trump at the White House to announce a major steel plant investment in Iowa.
共和党顾问珍妮特·霍夫曼表示：“这是一种平衡行为。”她补充说，候选人正试图利用政府的成功，同时与特朗普保持一定距离，因为“特朗普品牌目前是多么有毒”。剔除特朗普的参考由于竞争激烈的竞选中的共和党人试图将自己的吸引力扩大到特朗普的核心支持者之外，一些候选人已经开始减少公开展示对总统的忠诚。
"It is a balancing act," said Republican consultant Jeanette Hoffman, adding that candidates are trying to capitalize on the administration’s successes while creating some distance from Trump because of “how toxic the Trump brand is at the moment.”SCRUBBING TRUMP REFERENCES As Republicans in competitive races seek to expand their appeal beyond Trump's core supporters, some candidates have begun dialing back public displays of loyalty to the president.
前佛罗里达州众议员迈克·贝尔特兰（Mike Beltran）与美国民主党众议员凯西·卡斯特（Kathy Castor）竞争，他是从竞选网站上删除了对特朗普的突出提及的候选人之一。
Mike Beltran, a former Florida state representative running against Democratic US Representative Kathy Castor, is among candidates who have scrubbed prominent references to Trump from their campaign websites.
据互联网档案网站Wayback Machine报道，8月，他的主页上刊登了一张特朗普的照片，并表示他与总统站在一起。现在贝尔特兰的主页只显示他和他的家人，没有提及特朗普。贝特朗的竞选活动对路透社的置评请求没有立即做出回应。
In August, his homepage featured a photo of Trump and said he stood with the president, according to the Wayback Machine, an internet archive website. Now Beltran's homepage shows only him and his family and makes no mention of Trump. Beltran's campaign had no immediate response to a Reuters request for comment.
面对纽约州最激烈的美国众议院选区之一的选战，纽约州众议员迈克·劳勒代表着许多在关键选区的共和党人的两难境地：既要靠近特朗普，又要表现出对他的独立性。
Representative Mike Lawler of New York, facing one of the most competitive US House races, embodies the balancing act confronting many Republicans in battleground districts: staying close to Trump while demonstrating independence from him.
劳勒在包括海地移民临时法律保护措施以及特朗普支持的恢复土耳其F-35战机获取权限的提案等问题上都与特朗普出现分歧。
Lawler has highlighted breaks with Trump on issues including temporary legal protections for Haitian immigrants and a Trump-backed proposal to restore Turkey's access to F-35 fighter jets.
他的竞选经理西罗·里卡尔迪表示，劳勒无论总统的立场如何，都会代表他的选民行事。
His campaign manager Ciro Riccardi said Lawler acts on behalf of his constituency regardless of a president's stance.
劳勒在9月份的共和党中期选举大会上，对特朗普支持者发表讲话时承认了这些分歧，他说：“事实上，总统和我并不总是意见一致，这是可以接受的。”路透社
Lawler acknowledged the disagreements in a speech to Trump supporters at the Republican midterm convention in September, saying, "The truth is that the president and I don't always agree. And that's OK." REUTERS