共和党参议员苏珊·柯林斯与民主党人特洛伊·杰克逊在参议院选区首场关键辩论中，就特朗普政府加征的加拿大关税问题展开激烈交锋。
Republican Sen. Susan Collins and Democrat Troy Jackson tangled over the Trump administration’s tariffs on Canada during the first debate of their battleground Senate race.
柯林斯强调自己反对对加拿大征收关税，并称美国这位长期盟友是她所代表的州至关重要的贸易伙伴，她已在参议院连任五届。
Collins stressed her opposition to the tariffs on Canada, hailing America’s longtime ally to the north as a vital trading partner for the state she’s represented for five terms in the Senate.
“但我也一直在幕后努力。特洛伊对此进行了嘲讽，但我确实成功将木浆、纸浆和道路用盐从关税清单中移除。如果你问缅因州北部和东部各城镇的居民，他们所有的道路用盐都来自加拿大，”这位参议员说道。
“But I’ve also been working behind the scenes. Troy mocked it, but I was successful in getting concrete, pulp, and road salt removed from the tariff list. And if you ask towns in northern Maine and eastern Maine, they get all of their road salt from Canada,” the senator said.
今年8月，她就美加之间导致关税出台的“不幸的贸易谈判破裂”问题致信美国政府，敦促其考虑“缅因州经济与加拿大紧密交织”这一事实，两国共有611英里长的边境线。相关豁免措施于9月公布。
She’d sent a letter in August to the administration on the “unfortunate breakdown in trade negotiations” between the U.S. and Canada that resulted in tariffs, and urged the administration to consider that “Maine’s economy is uniquely intertwined with Canada,” with a 611-mile shared border. The exemptions were announced in September.
“我并没有嘲讽她成功争取到道路用盐的豁免。我嘲讽的是：那其他所有东西呢？我们总不能靠吃道路用盐为生吧，”杰克逊在辩论中反击道。
“I didn’t mock the fact that she got road salt back. I mock the fact that: what about everything else? I mean, we can’t eat road salt,” Jackson hit back at the debate.
这位民主党人认为，鉴于伊朗战争及其他推高物价的因素，“未来能负担得起开车出行的人将大幅减少，我甚至不确定道路用盐是否还有任何价值。”民主党迅速抓住这一交锋，其参议院竞选团队将柯林斯的言论比作玛丽·安托瓦内特那句臭名昭著的“让他们吃蛋糕去吧”。
The Democrat argued that, in light of the Iran war and other factors driving up prices, “there’s going to be so many less people to be able to afford to drive that I’m not even sure the road salt’s going to be worth anything either.”Democrats quickly seized on the exchange, with the party’s Senate campaign arm likening Collins’s comment to Marie Antoinette’s infamous “let them eat cake” line.
另一方面，共和党的参议院竞选团队则将缅因州的经济困境归咎于杰克逊在州立法机构任职的20年。
Republicans’ Senate campaign arm, on the other hand, cast blame for Maine’s economic struggles on Jackson’s 20-year tenure in the Legislature.
这场由WGME-TV电视台主持的长达一小时的辩论，是柯林斯与杰克逊在选举日临近前计划举行的四场对决中的首场。
The hourlong debate hosted by WGME-TV was the first of four scheduled face-offs between Collins and Jackson as Election Day nears.
在Decision Desk HQ对该选区的民意调查平均值中，杰克逊一直领先于柯林斯大约一个百分点，而顶尖预测专家则将该选区视为争夺参议院控制权的关键摇摆选区。
Jackson has been leading Collins by roughly a point in Decision Desk HQ’s polling averages of the race, and top forecasters rate the race as a critical toss-up in the fight for Senate control.