今日是全国范围内与竞选活动相关的新闻汇总：距离选举日还有三周时间，共和党官员们不得不做出艰难的决定：哪些国会选区的竞选活动应该放弃，以便将有限的资源投入到那些共和党候选人仍有可能获胜的选区中。《纽约时报》报道称，共和党实际上已经“放弃了目前由该党控制的三个众议院选区”。据报道，与唐纳德·特朗普总统及共和党国会领导层关系密切的超级政治行动委员会（super PACs）已停止对两名共和党现任议员（新泽西州的汤姆·基恩和爱荷华州的玛丽安内特·米勒-米克斯）的支持，因为这些候选人很可能会落败。
Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country. With three weeks remaining before Election Day, Republican officials are having to make tough decisions about which congressional races to abandon, in order to direct finite resources to contests where GOP candidates may still prevail. With this in mind, The New York Times reported that Republicans have now “essentially ceded three House districts the party currently holds.”According to the report, the top Republican super PACs aligned with President Donald Trump and congressional Republican leadership are ending investments in support of two GOP incumbents — Republican Reps. Tom Kean Jr. of New Jersey and Mariannette Miller-Meeks of Iowa — because the party now believes they are likely to lose.
《纽约时报》提到的第三个例子是内布拉斯加州奥马哈市的众议院选举——该席位目前由即将退休的共和党议员唐·贝肯担任。同样值得注意的是，这些共和党机构也曾投入资金试图击败两名民主党现任议员（俄亥俄州的格雷格·兰兹曼和密歇根州的克里斯滕·麦克唐纳-里维特），但现在他们也放弃了这些竞选活动。
The third race the Times’ report refers to is the open-seat contest in Omaha, Nebraska, which is currently held by retiring Republican Rep. Don Bacon. Just as notably, the same GOP entities were also spending money in the hopes of defeating two Democratic incumbents — Reps. Greg Landsman of Ohio and Kristen McDonald Rivet of Michigan — but the party is giving up on those contests too.
在备受关注的乔治亚州州长选举中，周一晚间举行了主要政党候选人的辩论，但共和党候选人里克·杰克逊并未出席。民主党候选人、前亚特兰大市长凯莎·兰斯·博顿斯这样评价她的对手：“他宁愿躲在自己的财富背后，也不愿向选民解释自己是如何从乔治亚州纳税人的钱中赚取巨额财富的。”在蒙大拿州的参议院选举中，莎伦·奥布莱恩本周辞去了蒙大拿州民主党主席的职务，并转而支持独立候选人塞思·博德纳。
In Georgia’s closely watched gubernatorial race, there was a debate on Monday night for the major-party nominees, but Republican nominee Rick Jackson decided not to show up for it. Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, the Democratic nominee, said of her opponent, “He’d rather hide behind his billions than explain to you his record of making billions off the taxpayers of Georgia.”In Montana’s U.S. Senate race, Shannon O’Brien resigned as chair of the Montana Democratic Party this week and threw her support behind independent candidate Seth Bodnar.
而民主党候选人阿兰妮·班克黑德则坚持自己的竞选立场，即使这样做可能会对共和党候选人库尔特·阿尔梅有利。
For her part, Democratic nominee Alani Bankhead refuses to end her candidacy, even if it helps Republican Kurt Alme.
在备受关注的缅因州联邦参议院竞选中，一个共和党超级政治行动委员会意外地在俄勒冈州波特兰而非缅因州波特兰播放了一则攻击性广告，持续了四天。
In Maine’s closely watched U.S. Senate race, a Republican super PAC accidentally ran an attack ad for four days in Portland, Oregon instead of Portland, Maine.
在俄亥俄州，唐纳德·特朗普周一晚举行集会支持其党内候选人，期间对共和党参议员乔恩·赫斯特德的身材给出了一些奇怪的赞扬。“我不常对男人这么做，”总统说，“我开始打量他的身体，因为我不知道他是一位出色的运动员。我上上下下地看，我看了他的屁股，看了他的全身，然后又看了他的手。”
In Ohio, Donald Trump held a rally in support of his party’s candidates on Monday night, which included some odd praise for Republican Sen. Jon Husted’s physique. “I don’t do this with men very often,”the president said“I started examining his body, because I didn’t know he was a great athlete. And I looked and I watched up and down. I looked at his ass, and I looked at the whole, and then I looked at his hands.”
相关消息称，一个与共和党公司有关联的超级政治行动委员会正代表一位社会主义参议院候选人发送邮寄广告，这显然是为了分裂左翼、削弱对前民主党参议员谢罗德·布朗支持的举措。
In related news, a super PAC tied to a Republican firm is sending out mailers on behalf of a socialist Senate candidate as part of an apparent effort to divide the left and undermine support for former Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown.
至于那些可能倾向于相信关于民主党州众议员詹姆斯·塔拉里科最近患流感的极右翼阴谋论的人，有关这位德克萨斯人的胡说八道已被彻底、最终地揭穿。
And to the extent that anyone might have been inclined to believe far-right conspiracy theories about Democratic state Rep. James Talarico’s recent bout with the flu, the nonsense about the Texan has been thoroughly definitively discredited.
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