由凯特·萨利文和乔·洛文格林撰写唐纳德·特朗普总统在周三访问德克萨斯州时为自己的移民政策辩护，同时力推民主党参议院候选人肯·派克斯顿，以应对11月的中期选举。
Donald Trump defended his immigration policies during a visit to Texas on Wednesday as he sought to boost struggling GOP Senate candidate Ken Paxton ahead of November’s midterm elections.
“阻止你们面临的移民征服、你们两年前经历的入侵——四年来你们都遭受了苦难——阻止这一切的唯一人就是肯·派克斯顿，”特朗普在圣安东尼奥市的一场集会上说。这座城市人口多数为拉丁裔。
“The only thing standing between you and the migrant conquest, the invasion that you had just two years ago — for four years you suffered — the only thing you have to stop that is a guy named Ken Paxton,” Trump said at a rally in San Antonio, a majority Hispanic city.
特朗普对移民政策的坚定辩护之际，共和党正试图巩固在 Hispanic 投票者中的支持率。这些选民帮助特朗普赢得2024年总统选举，但最近的民调显示他们对总统的支持有所下降。这主要受到经济和生活成本问题的担忧，以及对特朗普强硬移民打压政策的反感所推动。
Trump’s emphatic defense of his immigration policies comes as Republicans are seeking to shore up their standing with Hispanic voters, who helped Trump win the 2024 presidential election but whose support for the president has slid in recent polls. That’s been driven by concerns over the economy and affordability issues, as well as backlash to Trump’s heavy-handed immigration crackdown.
派克斯顿凸显了共和党在选举形势上的挑战——即使在长期以来属于共和党的据点的德克萨斯州，共和党也处于防御态。
Paxton underscores the challenges facing Republicans in an electoral climate that has the party on the defensive even in longtime GOP strongholds such as Texas.
特朗普今年早些时候通过支持派克斯顿击败参议员约翰·科瑞恩，后者是现任四届参议员兼共和党中最资深的议员之一，从而帮助派克斯顿赢得提名权。在激烈的共和党初选中，派克斯顿 decisive 击败科瑞恩，给党内的建立派造成重大打击。
Trump helped propel Paxton to the nomination earlier this year by endorsing him over Senator John Cornyn, a four-term incumbent and one of the Senate’s most senior Republicans. Paxton defeated Cornyn decisively after a bitter Republican runoff, delivering a major blow to the party’s establishment wing.
然而，在大选中，派克斯顿的表现一直不佳，距离选举不到一个月的时间里，他与詹姆斯·塔拉里科展开了激烈的竞争。塔拉里科正试图成为自1988年以来首位赢得德克萨斯州参议员席位的民主党人。
Yet Paxton has stumbled throughout the general election campaign, and finds himself less than a month before the election in a close race with James Talarico, who is looking to become the first Democratic US senator elected in Texas since 1988.
最近的民调显示，塔拉里科略领先一步，让民主党人在这个一直被认为是可靠的红州中谨慎乐观——该州曾三次被特朗普赢得。
Recent polls show Talarico with a narrow advantage, leaving Democrats cautiously hopeful in what has been a reliably red state Trump won three times.
总统在这次集会上大部分时间重复着对塔拉里科的攻击，责备这位上升中的州议员，从他的政策到他所谓的饮食偏好，无所不用其举。特朗普表示，投票给这名民主党人“相当于投票把德克萨斯州变成一个肮脏、失败、充满犯罪的第三世界废弃之地”，并警告选民称，如果他赢得选举，“德克萨斯州的忠国者们绝不会原谅你所做的事情”。
The president spent much of the rally reiterating attacks against Talarico, faulting the ascendant state lawmaker for everything from his policies to his supposed dietary preferences. Trump said a vote for the Democrat “is a vote to turn Texas into a dirty, failing, crime-ridden third-world dumping ground,” and warned voters that the “patriots of the Lone Star State will never forgive you for what you have done” if he wins.
与此同时，他再次称赞帕克森为“德克萨斯州历史上最伟大的检察长”，并通过“他始终与我们同行”来赞扬他的忠诚。帕克森的竞选对比赛具有重要意义，因为共和党正在努力保持对美国参议院的控制权。民主党需要翻转四个参议院席位以夺回该院。特朗普在圣安东尼奥的活动标志着他在一个月内第三次访问德克萨斯州，凸显了选战的重要性。为共和党候选人们带来复杂因素的是特朗普本人。
Meanwhile, he reiterated praise for Paxton as “the greatest attorney general in the history of Texas,” praising his loyalty by saying “he was with us all the way.”Paxton’s race has outsized importance as Republicans fight to retain control of the US Senate. Democrats need to flip four Senate seats to retake the chamber. Highlighting the stakes, Trump’s San Antonio event marked his third visit to Texas in just a month. Complicating the dynamic for Republican candidates is Trump himself.
民意调查显示，选民对特朗普的经济政绩表示不满，尤其是高昂的生活成本问题，同时还有他们对他处理伊朗战争的做法不满，这也导致了汽油价格的上涨。在特朗普于2024年以近14个百分点的优势赢得的德克萨斯州，最近的民调显示他的支持率已转为负面。
Polls show voters disapprove of Trump’s economy, in particular over high costs of living, as well as his handling of the Iran war, which has also brought higher prices at the pump. In Texas — a state Trump won by nearly 14 percentage points in 2024 — he now has a negative approval rating according to recent polling.
正在参加较为激烈的连任选举的德克萨斯州州长格雷格·阿博特没有出席星期三与特朗普的集会，而是选择参加他称之为提前安排好的活动。
Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who is in a reelection race that is tighter than expected, did not attend Wednesday’s rally with Trump, opting instead to attend events he said had been scheduled ahead of time.
此前报道：格雷格·阿博特在激烈竞选中跳过圣安东尼奥特朗普集会。圣安东尼奥 metropolitan area位于德克萨斯州第35国会选区。这个人口多为拉丁裔的选区是经过重新划定边界后旨在对共和党有利的选区。然而，该党的候选人仅领先微小，而民主党正加大力度争取竞选，这使得该选区成为共和党在州内维持拉丁裔选民支持力的风向标。
Earlier: Greg Abbott to Skip San Antonio Trump Rally Amid Tight Race Part of the San Antonio metropolitan area lies in Texas’ 35th congressional district. The heavily Latino district is a redrawn seat intended to be favorable to Republicans. The party’s candidate though has only a narrow lead and Democrats are spending to compete, making the contest there a bellwether for the GOP’s staying power with Hispanic voters in the state.
在特朗普面对中期选举时,他对 Hispanic社区的支持率有所下滑,这已出现了预警信号,包括一些他意外赢得的边境选区。
There have been warning signs ahead of the midterms of Trump’s softening support with Hispanics, including in border districts that he surprisingly carried.
尽管特朗普正试图提振帕克斯顿的竞选,但这两人之间的关系时而显得尴尬。特朗普曾开玩笑地取笑帕克斯顿是"让人难受的人",并说选民"可能不喜欢他的着装方式"或"说话方式"。但他也辩称帕克斯顿在参议院会是一个可靠的共和党投票人。
Even as Trump seeks to boost Paxton, the dynamic between the two men has been awkward at times. Trump has jokingly needled him as a “pain in the a—” and said voters “might not like the way he dresses” or “the way he talks.”But he’s also argued that Paxton would be a reliably Republican vote in the Senate.
然而,据报道,帕克斯顿曾私下表示,总统的一些决定正影响到自己的竞选前景。在纽约时报获得的一份私人筹款会的音频中,帕克斯顿表示,特朗普上个月在达拉斯主持的共和党中期选举大会损害了共和党候选人的形象。"当我们举办那个大会时——我们的支持率下降了,"帕克斯顿在录音中说道。一位帕克斯顿的顾问向纽约时报驳斥该报道为"被篡改的胡言"，并称内部民调显示帕克斯顿领先。
Yet Paxton has reportedly privately suggested some of the president’s decisions are weighing on his own campaign prospects. In audio obtained by the New York Times from a private fundraiser, Paxton said the Republican midterm convention Trump headlined in Dallas last month had hurt GOP candidates. “When we did that convention — it dropped our numbers,” Paxton said, according to the recording. A Paxton adviser dismissed the report to the Times as “manipulated nonsense” and said internal polling showed him ahead.
特朗普周三早些时候被问及是否后悔支持帕克斯顿时表示,他"完全没有后悔",称帕克斯顿将会是"一位出色的参议员"。此前报道:德州共和党人分裂,马加领袖挑战党内底线。特朗普近日的其他竞选活动地点都局限在共和党有利的州份,包括俄克拉荷马、阿拉巴马、俄罔和内布拉斯加。这些保守程度很高的地方暗示了一种策略,即旨在提高忠实支持者的选民参与率,而非试图说服摆摊选民。
Asked earlier Wednesday if he regretted his endorsement, Trump said he had “no regrets at all,” saying that Paxton would be a “great senator.”Earlier: Texas Republicans Splinter as MAGA Leaders Test Party Limits Trump’s other campaign stops in recent days have been confined to Republican-leaning states, including Oklahoma, Alabama, Ohio and Nebraska. Those deeply-conservative locations suggest a strategy that aims to boost turnout among committed supporters rather than try to persuade swing voters.
然而,尽管特朗普对德州的访问符合他前往大多数红色州的模式,但周三的行程把他带到了一座民主党有利的城市。
However, while Trump’s visit to Texas is in keeping with his travel to mostly red states, Wednesday’s trip took him to a Democratic-leaning city.
总统的演讲多次被抗议者打断,随后抗议者被带离会场,之后特朗普才重新开始发言。
The president’s speech was interrupted multiple times by protesters, who were then led out of the venue before Trump began to speak again.