为了捍卫个人颜面和政治前途，特朗普总统周三重返深红州德克萨斯州，为肯·帕克斯顿的参议员竞选造势，期间他有时流露出担忧：共和党最长的连胜纪录之一可能将在他的任内终结。
Digging in to defend both his pride and his political fortunes, President Donald Trump on Wednesday returned to deep-red Texas to rally for Ken Paxton’s Senate bid, while revealing at times his own trepidation that one of the Republican Party’s longest winning streaks may be about to end on his watch.
多项民调显示，州众议员詹姆斯·塔拉里科有望成为三十多年来首位在德州赢得全州性选举的民主党人。特朗普在圣安东尼奥警告现场观众：“如果你们让这种事发生，我们永远不会原谅你们所做的一切。”
As multiple polls show state Rep. James Talarico with a shot at becoming the first Democrat to win statewide in Texas in more than three decades, Trump warned the crowd in San Antonio, “We’ll never forgive you for what you have done if you let that happen."
“德州人民不会允许一个软弱、胆小、自我厌恶、宣扬跨性别的怪诞闹剧摧毁我们建立的一切，”特朗普在不到一个月内第三次造访德州时说道，“所以你们必须去投票，支持肯·帕克斯顿竞选联邦参议员。”
“The people of Texas are not going to let a weak, gutless, self-hating, transgender-promoting freak show destroy everything that we built," Trump said at another point during his third trip to Texas in less than a month. "So you need to go and vote for Ken Paxton for U.S. Senate.”
特朗普将大量讲话集中在塔拉里科身上，给对方起绰号，并重复错误说法称对方是素食主义者。“现在他说他爱吃肉。但他是素食主义者。……他只想吃一点生菜，”特朗普说，“因为政治原因被迫吃肉，他病了。他到处呕吐。他病了。”在一场屡遭抗议者打断的集会上，特朗普主要发表了情绪化的呼吁，诉诸德州的男子气概，提醒选民他计划实施二战以来首次行刑队处决——处决一名因2009年在德州胡德堡袭击军人而被定罪的男子。
Trump centered much of his remarks on Talarico, deploying nicknames and repeating incorrect claims that he is vegan. “Now he says he loves meat. But he’s a vegan. … He wants to eat a little piece of lettuce,” Trump said. “He’s sick because he’s been forced to eat meat for political reasons. And he’s throwing up all over the place. He’s sick.”During a rally that was repeatedly interrupted by protesters, Trump largely made his remarks an emotional appeal to Texas machismo, reminding voters that he plans a firing-squad execution—the first since World War II—of a man convicted of attacking troops in Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009.
他还嘲讽气候变化，并虚假声称民主党想扼杀德州数千个石油和天然气岗位。他表示，枪支权利和他自己的政治遗产都在今秋的选票上。
He also mocked climate change and falsely claimed Democrats want to kill thousands of oil and gas jobs in Texas. He said gun rights and his own legacy are on the ballot this fall.
“我基本上整晚都在脱稿发言，”特朗普说道，说出了显而易见的事实。
“I’ve basically been off-script for the entire night,” Trump said, stating the obvious.
这篇冗长、离题万里且旨在修饰个人遗产的演讲，正值共和党试图应对特朗普成为其全线候选人拖累之际。路透社/益普索周一发布的美国选民民调显示，在哪个政党应控制国会这一问题上，民主党领先7个百分点。其他民调，如《经济学人》/优戈夫和奎尼皮亚克民调，则显示这一领先优势达到了两位数。
The sprawling speech of discursives and legacy polishing came as Republicans try to weather the drag Trump has become for their candidates up and down the ballot. A Reuters-Ipsos poll of U.S. voters released Monday shows Democrats with a seven-point lead when it comes to which party should control Congress after this election. Others, such as The Economist-YouGov and Quinnipiac polls, have that figure in the double digits.
在与墨西哥接壤边境最长的州，特朗普反复渲染非法移民激增的恐惧，将其与民主党掌控华盛顿的前景联系起来。
In the state with the longest border with Mexico, Trump repeatedly turned to amping up fears over an increase in illegal immigration, connecting it to the prospects of Democrats gaining power in Washington.
“如果他们上台，就会开放你们的边境，让全世界的人像以前一样涌入。我们不能让那种事发生，”特朗普说。“投给塔拉弗里科的一票，就是把德克萨斯州变成一个肮脏、衰败、犯罪泛滥的第三世界垃圾场的一票。”圣安东尼奥集会是特朗普在民调下滑之际，竭力最大化其基本盘投票率的最新迹象。多项调查显示，近三分之二的美国人不赞成特朗普的工作表现。
“If they get in, they will open your borders and let the entire world pour in like they did before. We can’t let that happen,” Trump said. “A vote for Talafreako is a vote to turn Texas into a dirty, failing, crime-ridden third-world dumping ground.”The San Antonio rally was the latest sign of Trump’s effort to maximize his base’s turnout amid his slumping poll numbers. Multiple surveys now show almost two-thirds of Americans disapprove of how Trump is doing his job.
为应对这一局面，特朗普重申承诺：如果共和党保持众参两院多数派地位，每位美国人将获得5000美元。而在一个更新的举措中，他承诺给老年人发新钱。“从明天开始，超过2000万参加联邦医保的老年人将收到每人超过100美元的支票或存款，”特朗普在台上宣称。他隐瞒了这样一个事实：不到三分之一的医保参保人将获得这笔一次性付款，实际金额为90美元。
To counter that, Trump repeated his promise of $5,000 to every American if Republicans hold the majorities in the House and Senate. And in a more recent play, he promised new money for seniors. “Starting tomorrow, over 20 million seniors on Medicare will receive checks or deposits for over $100 each,” Trump said from the stage. He left out the part that less than a third of Medicare participants will get the one-time payments, checks, which will actually be $90.
周三集会上明显缺席的是共和党籍州长格雷格·阿博特，他与帕克斯顿同在选票上，面临一场预料中的激烈连任竞选。但特朗普似乎更关心帮助共和党守住众参两院微弱的多数优势。而共和党能否守住参议院，关键在于能否守住德克萨斯州。
Notably absent from Wednesday’s rally: GOP Gov. Greg Abbott, who is in an expectedly tight re-election bid on the same ballot as Paxton. But Trump appeared far more concerned about helping Republicans keep their narrow majorities in the House and the Senate. And central to the GOP holding on to the Senate is holding on to Texas.
几十年来，德克萨斯州一直是人们逃离民主党执政的加利福尼亚州、纽约州、伊利诺伊州及其他衰败的蓝州的经济压迫和社会崩溃的避风港。但如果塔拉弗里科和民主党得逞，所有那些肮脏、痛苦、贫穷、无家可归的现象，”特朗普说，并补充说他甚至不知道塔拉里科的真名。“我根本不知道他到底叫什么名字，”总统说。“我只知道他叫塔拉弗里科。”
“For decades, Texas has been the state where people flee to escape the economic oppression and social collapse of Democrat-run California, New York, Illinois, and other failing blue states. But if Talafreako and the Democrats get their way, all of that squalor, misery, poverty, homelessness,” Trump said, adding that he doesn’t even know Talarico’s real name. “I have no idea what the hell his name is,” the President said. “I just know him as Talafreako.”