威尔·魏塞特，迈克·卡塔利尼 拉斯维加斯 — — 唐纳德·特朗普总统为助阵共和党而进行的中期选举路演将于周三在摇摆州亚利桑那州以及一个倾向共和党的美国众议院选区蒙大拿州作停留。
WILL WEISSERT, MIKE CATALINI LAS VEGAS — President Donald Trump’s midterm roadshow to rally the GOP is stopping Wednesday in swing-state Arizona and a Republican-leaning U.S. House district in Montana.
此次访问正值共和党总统特朗普致力于在11月3日的选举中巩固其党势，而该选举将决定国会控制权，并且此行紧随其在本周早些时候对俄亥俄州和阿拉斯加州的访问之后。
The visits come as the Republican president works to bolster his party in Nov. 3 elections that will determine control of Congress, and they follow stops earlier this week in Ohio and Alaska.
在亚利桑那州的布尔黑德城，特朗普将为正在寻求击败现任民主党州长凯蒂·霍布斯的众议员安迪·比格斯拉票。随后，特朗普计划前往蒙大拿州西部的第一选区，以提升亚伦·弗林特的支持度，弗林特曾是即将退休的共和党众议员瑞恩·辛克的助手，而辛克曾在特朗普第一任期内阁中担任内政部长。
In Bullhead City, Arizona, Trump will be rallying support for Rep. Andy Biggs, who is seeking to defeat incumbent Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs. Afterward, Trump is set to travel to Western Montana’s 1st District to try to boost Aaron Flint, a former aide to retiring Republican Rep. Ryan Zinke, who served as Interior secretary in Trump’s first-term Cabinet.
特朗普一直保持着每场超过一小时的快节奏集会 — — 新任白宫新闻秘书凯蒂·扎卡里亚称之为“中期冲刺” — — 以此来遏制预期中的共和党损失，并对抗一个历史趋势：即总统所属政党通常在其白宫任期中途的选举中失去席位。
Trump has kept up a brisk pace of hour-plus-long rallies — new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia called it a “midterm blitz” — in his effort to stem expected Republican losses and fight a historical trend in which the president’s party typically loses seats in elections halfway through their term in the White House.
亚利桑那州在特朗普最近的访问中脱颖而出，成为唯一的摇摆州，尽管此次机场集会将在该州一个被称为共和党堡垒的地区举行。他截至目前在十月份的其他访问都带他进入了传统上坚定的共和党地区 — — 阿拉巴马州、内布拉斯加州、俄亥俄州、田纳西州和得克萨斯州 — — 而在他面临低支持率、成本上升以及伊朗战争的情况下。
Arizona stands out as the lone swing state among the president’s recent stops, though the airport rally will be in an area of the state known as a Republican stronghold. His other visits so far in October have taken him into traditionally solid Republican territory — Alabama, Nebraska, Ohio, Tennessee and Texas — as he weathers low approval ratings , rising costs and the Iran war .
随着竞选剩余不到三周，这一西部地区的访问正值共和党已开始从若干个战场美国众议院选区撤退，而民主党则旨在为那些早在今年就被视为不被看好的候选人筹集资金。
With under three weeks left in the campaign, the Western swing comes as Trump’s party has begun retreating from a handful of battleground U.S. House races and Democrats aim to raise money for candidates who seemed like long shots earlier this year.
中期选举最后几周资金的转变反映出共和党日益防守的姿态 — — 他们已经在美国参议院赛事中降低了预期 — — 而民主党则表现出新的进攻性，他们试图利用特朗普低落的公众支持率。
The shifting money in the final weeks of midterm campaigns reflects an increasingly defensive posture by Republicans, who have already trimmed their expectations in U.S. Senate races, and new aggression from Democrats, who are trying to capitalize on Trump’s low public approval.
特朗普在2016年和2024年两次赢得亚利桑那州，但在2020年输掉了该州。蒙大拿州第一选区总体上比全州稍逊于共和党，而该州在特朗普的三次总统竞选中均以两位数优势投票支持他。
Trump twice won Arizona, in 2016 and 2024, but lost the state in 2020. Montana’s 1st District is slightly less Republican overall than the state, which voted for Trump by double digits in each of his three presidential campaigns.
亚利桑那州的比格斯一直是总统的坚定盟友，并协助特朗普试图阻止众议院认证其2020年大选失利。他曾是保守派众议院自由核心小组的领导人，自2016年当选以来一直代表着一个稳固的共和党席位。
Biggs, of Arizona, has been a stalwart ally of the president and assisted Trump’s attempt to block certification by the House of Trump’s 2020 election defeat. A one-time head of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, he’s represented a safe GOP seat since winning election in 2016.
他将面对霍布斯，霍布斯在四年前的州长选举中以微弱优势击败了共和党候选人卡里·莱克，而该州近年来越来越多地选出民主党人担任州级官职。
He faces Hobbs, who narrowly defeated Republican Kari Lake in the governor’s race four years ago in a state that has increasingly elected Democrats to statewide office.
在蒙大拿州，弗林在六月的初选中获得了总统和辛克的背书。他是一名陆军退役军人和脱口秀广播主持人，在竞选中抨击进步派民主党人，如佛蒙特州参议员伯尼·桑德斯和纽约市市长佐兰·曼达尼。
In Montana, Flint won the president’s and Zinke’s endorsement during the June primary. An Army veteran and talk-radio host, Flint assails progressive Democrats like Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani as part of his campaign.
弗林的对手是山姆·福斯特格，他是一名民主党工会领袖和美国森林服务局烟跳队员——一种通过飞机和降落伞到达火场进行扑救的专业消防员。卡塔利尼从宾夕法尼亚州莫里斯维尔报道。
Flint’s opponent is Sam Forstag, a Democratic labor union leader and Forest Service smokejumper, a specialized firefighter who gets to fires by aircraft and parachute. Catalini reported from Morrisville, Pennsylvania.