佐治亚州迎来了辩论之夜，但台上似乎更像是总统唐纳德·特朗普与前总统乔·拜登的较量。现任民主党参议员乔恩·奥索夫与共和党人、国会成员迈克·柯林斯于周四展开了这场具有全国影响力的参议院选举的首场辩论。两人均试图批评对方所支持的前任及现任总统推行的政策。奥索夫多次质问柯林斯为何支持关税政策——这一政策已成为消费品价格上涨的关键因素，也导致特朗普的支持率降至历史低位，而柯林斯始终未直接回应这一问题。
It was debate night in Georgia, but President Donald Trump and former President Joe Biden seemed to be on stage. Incumbent Democrat Sen. Jon Ossoff and Republican Mike Collins, a member of Congress, squared off Thursday in the first debate in this nationally consequential Senate race, with both trying to hit the other for policies implemented by the current and former president. Ossoff repeatedly asked why Collins supported tariffs that have been a key factor in the rise in consumer goods that have kept Trump’s approval ratings at historically low levels, a question Collins never directly answered. “Still have not heard an explanation for the tariffs,” Ossoff said after already asking about Trump’s tariff regime several times.
“我至今仍未听到对关税政策的任何解释，”奥索夫在多次提及特朗普的关税制度后再次说道。这场由《亚特兰大第一新闻》主办、持续一个小时的辩论中，柯林斯并未直接回应关于伊朗这场不得人心的战争或特朗普经济政策的问题，而是试图将奥索夫在拜登任期内投下的票归咎于他，以此论证前总统正是当前通货膨胀和高物价的根源。
Collins spent the hourlong debate, hosted by Atlanta First News, not directly answering questions about the unpopular war in Iran or Trump’s economy, but rather trying to saddle Ossoff with votes he took under Biden to make the case that the former president is the reason for the current state of inflation and high prices. “That Bidenomics, that Green New Deal my opponent voted for, that’s where this inflation came from,” Collins said.
“拜登经济学，以及我对手所投票支持的《绿色新协议》，正是通货膨胀的根源所在，”柯林斯说道。这场辩论分为四个环节，但每个环节都或多或少地聚焦于经济与消费者物价问题。NBC新闻的一项民意调查显示，在选举日临近之际，这些问题正是选民最为关注的议题。柯林斯曾投票支持所谓的《伟大法案》，这是特朗普第二任期内最重要的立法成就。
The debate was broken up into four segments, but each was dominated in some form by the economy and consumer prices, issues that an NBC News poll showed are the most important issues on voters’ minds in the lead-up to Election Day. Collins voted to support the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill, Trump’s biggest legislative achievement of his second term. The bill included provisions including no taxes on tips for hospitality workers and Social Security, regular midterm talking points for Republicans. But Democrats have consistently highlighted how the sweeping tax proposal disproportionately benefits the wealthy, and increased the federal deficit by $1.4 trillion.
该法案包含多项条款，例如对服务业员工的小费免税以及对社会保障金的保护，这些都是共和党在中期选举中的常见议题。然而，民主党人一直强调，这项全面的税收提案对富人的益处远大于普通人，并使联邦赤字增加了1.4万亿美元。“减税才是让民众口袋里留有更多钱的关键，”柯林斯说道。
“Tax cuts are the answer to keeping more money in people’s pockets,” Collins said. “That creates…more tax-paying people, and businesses grow.”As Trump’s approval rating has tanked, helping Democrats overcome the GOP’s huge national financial advantage, Republican candidates across the country have distanced themselves from Trump on key policies ranging from tariffs to the war in Iran.
“这样就能……创造更多纳税人群体，企业也会随之发展。”随着特朗普的支持率暴跌，民主党得以克服共和党在国家级财政方面的巨大优势，美国各地的共和党候选人纷纷在关税到伊朗战争等关键政策上与特朗普划清界限。然而，柯林斯并未加入这一行列，他在关键的参议院中期选举中，依然保持着特朗普最坚定盟友之一的地位。
Collins, however, has not been among them, keeping his place as one of Trump’s staunchest allies in key midterm Senate races. Ossoff pressed Collins several times on why he supports Trump policies on the economy and foreign affairs. He did say that Trump’s tariffs make things “fair” in the context of trade with China and helping Georgia’s ports, which are key to the state’s economy.
奥索夫多次追问柯林斯，为何他支持特朗普在经济和外交事务上的政策。柯林斯确实表示，特朗普的关税政策在与中国贸易的框架下使局势变得“公平”，并有助于佐治亚州的港口发展，而这些港口对该州经济至关重要。“萨凡纳港和布伦瑞克港一直是我关注的焦点，”他说，但并未具体说明关税政策如何帮助了这些港口。
“Savannah port and Brunswick port have been on my mind,” he said, without offering specifics on how the tariffs have helped them. When pressed on the Iran war, which is increasingly unpopular, Collins defended Trump’s decision to begin bombing raids with Israel in February. “The president had every right to make sure Iran does not get a nuclear weapon. Jon Ossoff knows this,” he said.
当被问及日益不受欢迎的伊朗战争时，柯林斯为特朗普于二月份与以色列一同发动空袭的决定辩护。“总统完全有权利确保伊朗不会获得核武器。乔恩·奥索夫知道这一点，”他说。奥索夫还经常批评柯林斯持续支持特朗普毫无证据地声称2020年总统选举存在舞弊的说法，而这一议题在辩论中也成为焦点。“迈克·柯林斯和唐纳德·特朗普，他们仍然执着于推翻2020年选举的结果，”奥索夫说。
Ossoff has also regularly attacked Collins for continuing to support Trump’s insistence, without proof, that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, an issue that also took center stage during the debate. “Mike Collins and Donald Trump, they are still obsessed with overturning the 2020 election,” Ossoff said. Collins did not back down from the idea the 2020 election was stolen, but focused on GOP election measures and that Ossoff opposes the SAVE Act, a Trump-backed bill that, among other things, requires proof of citizenship to to vote. “Voters need confidence,” Collins said.
柯林斯并未否认2020年选举存在舞弊的说法，但他将重点转向了共和党的选举措施，并指出奥索夫反对《SAVE法案》——这项由特朗普支持的法案要求选民提供公民身份证明才能投票，除此之外还有其他规定。“选民需要信心，”柯林斯说。“我们生活在这个世界上最好的国家，完全没有理由不拥有世界上最安全的选举。”
“We live in the best country in the world, and no reason we should not have the most secure elections in the world.”The bill has been passed in the House, but has not had enough support in the GOP-led Senate. Each candidate also tried to frame the other as scandal-plagued.
该法案已在众议院通过，但在共和党主导的参议院中尚未获得足够支持。两位候选人也都试图将对方描绘成深陷丑闻的人物。
Ossoff hit Collins over a series of social media posts where his son-in-law promoted white nationalist posts. “Imagine running for the U.S. Senate while neo-Nazi propaganda is disseminated to an audience of millions from your house,” Ossoff said.
奥索夫抨击了柯林斯，因为他的女婿在社交媒体上发布了一系列支持白人至国主义的内容。“想象一下，你正在竞选美国参议员，而新纳粹的宣传却从你的家中传播给数百万观众，”奥索夫说，“迈克·柯林斯就是一个偏执狂。”柯林斯表示，他并不支持种族主义或反犹主义，并声称已经向家人明确表达了这一点。“我不管这些内容来自哪里，我已经告诉过他了，”柯林斯谈及自己的女婿时说道。
“Mike Collins is a bigot.”Collins said he does not support racism or anti-semitism, and said he has told that to his family. “I don’t care where the source is, and I tell him that,” Collins said of his son-in-law. In contrast, Collins said that billionaire Reid Hoffman, whose name appeared in the Epstein files, is an Ossoff donor.
与此相反，柯林斯指出，亿万富翁里德·霍夫曼——其名字出现在爱泼斯坦文件中——是奥索夫的捐款人。“亿万富翁里德·霍夫曼，也是爱泼斯坦的熟人之一，已经向奥索夫的竞选活动输送了资金，”柯林斯说。当局尚未指控霍夫曼与爱泼斯坦事件有任何不当行为。霍夫曼曾表示，他对自己曾与爱泼斯坦交往感到后悔。奥索夫是否有意在2028年竞选总统，已成为全国范围内广泛猜测的话题。
“Billionaire Reid Hoffman, also one of Epstein’s buddies out there, has funneled money into his campaign,” Collins said. Authorities have not accused Hoffman of wrongdoing in connection with Epstein. Hoffman has said he regrets having associated with Epstein. Ossoff has been the subject of significant national speculation about whether he wants to run for president in 2028, something he has said he has “no interest” in, but that has not kept him off early shortlists. That idea is bolstered by the fact that of his more than $100 million raised, $50 million is from so-called small dollar donors, which are relatively small contributions typically raised through email and other digital means from supporters across the country.
他曾表示对此“毫无兴趣”，但这并未让他被排除在早期候选人名单之外。支持这一猜测的是，他筹集的超过1亿美元中，有5000万美元来自所谓的“小额捐款人”，即通过电子邮件和其他数字渠道从全国各地的支持者那里获得的相对较小的捐款。能够以这种规模进行数字筹款，通常表明候选人在全国范围内具有较高的知名度，并获得了党内最核心支持者的认可，而这些支持者往往在总统候选人提名过程中发挥着不成比例的重要作用。
An ability to digitally fundraise at that clip is generally a sign of a candidate’s national name identification and support among the party’s most intense base voters, which often play an outsized role in helping choose presidential nominees. Collins has raised more than $7 million for his campaign, according to the most recent campaign finance reports, and has gotten his biggest boost, $25 million, from the Senate Leadership Fund, a national group that supports GOP Senate candidates. At the beginning of the 2026 midterm cycle, the Georgia contest was seen as likely to be one of the closest contests in the country, and a key component for Republicans as they try to hold onto their slim majority in the Senate.
根据最新的竞选财务报告，柯林斯已为他的竞选活动筹集了超过700万美元，其中最大的2500万美元来自参议院领导基金——一个支持共和党参议员候选人的全国性组织。
The race, however, has slowly trended Ossoff’s way.
在2026年中期选举周期刚开始时，佐治亚州的这场选举被视为全美最胶着的竞选之一，对共和党人来说也至关重要，因为他们正试图守住参议院中微弱的多数席位。然而，这场选战正逐渐向奥索夫倾斜。大多数民调显示他领先不少，包括上个月发布的YouGov民调，该民调显示他以10个百分点的优势领先于柯林斯。这项民调的误差幅度为2.7个百分点，调查于9月15日至18日进行。
Most public polling has him with a sizable lead, including a YouGov poll released last month that had him topping Collins by 10 percentage points. The poll, which has a margin of error of 2.7 percentage points, was conducted Sept. 15-18. Georgia is still seen as a key midterm Senate battleground contest, but many Republicans see it slipping away and are focusing on other states like Texas, Maine, North Carolina and Alaska to try and maintain control of the Senate. Each candidate used their finishing remarks to attack the other.
佐治亚州仍被视为中期选举中参议院席位的关键战场，但许多共和党人认为该州已逐渐失守，因此正将注意力转向得克萨斯州、缅因州、北卡罗来纳州和阿拉斯加等州，以试图维持对参议院的控制。每位候选人在最后发言中都攻击了对方。奥索夫表示，柯林斯经营着一家由其父亲（一名前国会议员）创办的运输公司，但他对自己的职业履历存在误导。
Ossoff said Collins, who runs a trucking company started by his father, a former congressman, misleads on his professional record. “Mike has called himself a trucker,” Ossoff said. “This is a congressman’s son who inherited a seat in Congress.”
“迈克自称是卡车司机，”奥索夫说，“但他其实是国会议员的儿子，继承了国会席位。”柯林斯则获得了最后发言权，再次批评奥索夫在拜登执政时期投下的票。“我们至今仍未听到乔恩·奥索夫为何会那样投票，”柯林斯说，“他为何投票反对我们的农民……为何投票反对那些勤劳的佐治亚州人。”
Collins got the final word, once again hitting Ossoff for voting on Biden-era policies. “We still have not heard why Jon Ossoff votes the way he does,” Collins said. “Why he voted against our farmers…why he voted against hard working Georgians out there.”