特朗普总统公开鼓励宾夕法尼亚州民主党参议员约翰·费特曼转换党派，成为共和党人。
President Donald Trump is openly encouraging Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania to switch parties and become a Republican.
史蒂文·斯隆，科林·宾克利，安德鲁斯联合基地，马里兰州 — — 特朗普总统公开鼓励宾夕法尼亚州民主党参议员约翰·费特曼在中期选举前几周转换党派，成为共和党人，此举可能重塑国会控制权。
STEVEN SLOAN, COLLIN BINKLEY JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md. — President Donald Trump openly encouraged Democratic Sen.
“我很乐意看到他成为共和党人，”特朗普周六在安德鲁斯联合基地对记者说，当时他正从田纳西州的一次集会返回华盛顿。“他作为共和党人的表现会比作为民主党人更好。”这些言论是特朗普向费特曼释放的最直接的拉拢信号之一，随着共和党可能在下个月的选举中失去参议院多数席位，此事日益重要。凭借其平民魅力，费特曼在2022年首次当选参议员时曾是民主党的明星。
John Fetterman of Pennsylvania to switch parties and become a Republican just weeks before the midterm elections could reshape control of Congress. “I’d love to see him as a Republican,” Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews on Saturday as he returned to Washington from a rally in Tennessee. “He does better as a Republican than he does as a Democrat.”The comments were among the most direct overtures by Trump to woo Fetterman into the GOP, a matter of growing importance as the party could lose its Senate majority in next month’s elections With his everyman appeal, Fetterman was a Democratic star when he was first elected to the Senate in 2022.
但他在华盛顿任职期间，在移民、以色列等问题上与民主党产生分歧，导致外界猜测他可能转换党派。费特曼的代表未能立即回应置评请求。
But during his time in Washington, he has split with Democrats on issues ranging from immigration to Israel, leading to speculation that he might switch parties. A representative for Fetterman didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
费特曼多次否定成为共和党人的可能性，他在今年5月《华盛顿邮报》上写道，他将成为一个“仍然 overwhelmingly 投票支持民主党的糟糕共和党人”。他在上个月为共和党中期大会录制的一段视频中称赞了 fellow Pennsylvania senator、共和党人戴夫·麦考密克，暗示他所在的党内存在极端分子，这使他与 fellow Democrats 的关系变得更加紧张。
Fetterman has repeatedly rejected the notion of becoming a Republican, writing in The Washington Post in May that he would be a “terrible Republican who still votes overwhelmingly with Democrats.”His relationship with fellow Democrats became more tenuous after he recorded a video for the Republican midterm convention last month praising his fellow Pennsylvania senator, Republican Dave McCormick, suggesting there were extremists in his party.
“我将永远站在美国这边，”费特曼在视频中说。“我将永远反对极端主义、社会主义以及那种反美的生活方式。”他与共和党的这种暧昧关系可能使他赢得另一届参议员任期的民主党提名变得极其困难，特朗普周六在鼓励其转换党派时也提出了这一前景。
“I’m always going to stand with America,” Fetterman said in the video. “I’m always going to reject the extremes and socialism and that anti-American way of life.”Such flirtations with the GOP could make it extremely difficult for Fetterman to win the Democratic nomination for another term in the Senate, a prospect Trump raised on Saturday as he encouraged the party switch.
民主党需要赢得四个席位才能重新夺回参议院多数席位，这曾是一个遥不可及的前景，对该党而言仍然充满挑战。但特朗普的不受欢迎程度以及伊朗战争带来的经济后果加剧了对共和党的逆风，使民主党对夺回参议院控制权的前景更加乐观。
Democrats need to pick up four seats to retake the Senate majority, a once remote prospect that remains challenging for the party. But Trump’s unpopularity and the economic fallout from the Iran war have intensified headwinds for the GOP, making Democrats more bullish about a path to Senate control.
如果民主党赢得四个席位以获得51席的多数，这可能会让费特曼处于一个有影响力的位置，从而降低他转换党派的动机。
If Democrats picked up the four seats for a 51-seat majority, that could potentially put Fetterman in an influential position, reducing the incentive to switch parties.
上一位其党派转换影响参议院控制权的参议员是佛蒙特州的吉姆·杰弗兹，他在2001年离开共和党，使民主党获得了微弱多数。前宾夕法尼亚州参议员阿伦·斯佩克特在2009年决定离开共和党的举动帮助民主党实现了超级多数。斯隆自爱荷华州锡达拉皮兹报道。
The last senator whose party switch affected control of the chamber was Jim Jeffords of Vermont, who left the GOP in 2001 to give Democrats a narrow majority. Former Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter’s decision to abandon Republicans in 2009 helped Democrats achieve a supermajority. Sloan reported from Cedar Rapids, Iowa