特朗普总统上周在空军一号上与一位非常规顾问会面，当时他正前往阿拉巴马州莫比尔参加集会：极右翼活动家劳拉·卢默。
President Trump huddled last week with an unconventional adviser on Air Force One as he traveled to a rally in Mobile, Ala.: far-right activist Laura Loomer.
卢默向总统提供竞选建议——她告诉他要攻击“圣战候选人”——但她心中还有一个更大的担忧，她本周这样表示。两年前让特朗普重返白宫的策略手册可能在今年的中期选举中不起作用。
As Loomer offered the president campaign advice—attack “jihadist candidates,” she told him—she had a bigger worry in the back of her mind, she said this week. The playbook that returned Trump to the White House two years ago might not work in this year’s midterms.
“很多候选人缺乏活力，而总统的集会是让他们冲过终点线的最后努力，”她说。“当你有很多什么都不做的候选人时，要激励人们出来投票就非常困难，这些候选人不一定像总统那样有活力。”特朗普对共和党的前景持“积极”但“现实”的态度，她说。
“A lot of these candidates are not very dynamic people, and the president’s rallies are a last-ditch effort to bring them across the finish line,” she said. “It’s just very difficult to inspire people to get out to vote when you have a lot of do-nothing candidates who are not necessarily as dynamic as the president.”Trump, she said, was “positive” but “realistic” about the GOP’s prospects.
卢默是越来越多私下和公开敲响警钟的共和党人之一，他们警告该党下个月的表现将不佳。策略师和顾问们将2026年描述为近期记忆中对执政党最艰难的政治环境之一。共和党正面临物价上涨、与伊朗的冲突以及任何总统在进入中期选举前几十年来最低的支持率。
Loomer is part of a growing group of Republicans who are privately and publicly sounding the alarm that the party will perform poorly next month. Strategists and advisers are describing 2026 as one of the most difficult political environments for an incumbent party in recent memory. Republicans are confronting higher prices, a war with Iran and the lowest approval rating in decades of any president heading into a midterm election.