参议员乔恩·奥索夫（民主党）和众议员迈克·柯林斯（共和党）在周二晚上的辩论中互相攻击，围绕杰弗里·爱泼斯坦档案、2020年大选等议题展开争论。
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D) and Rep. Mike Collins (R) traded barbs in a Tuesday night debate, tangling over the Jeffrey Epstein files, the 2020 election and more.
奥索夫是唯一一位在特朗普于2024年赢得的州参选连任的参议院民主党人，他将共和党对手与政府有争议的关税政策和伊朗战争联系起来。柯林斯得到特朗普的支持，试图将奥索夫描绘成更代表华盛顿的“乔治城”而非佐治亚州的人，暗示这位民主党人“正将此作为平台”为未来的政治动作做准备。
Ossoff, the only Senate Democrat running for reelection in a state President Trump won in 2024, tied his Republican opponent to the administration’s controversial tariffs and war in Iran. Collins, backed by Trump, sought to paint Ossoff as more representative of “Georgetown” in Washington than Georgia, suggesting the Democrat is “using this as a platform” for future political moves.
随着提前投票的进行，奥索夫在Decision Desk HQ最新的民调平均值中以近10个百分点领先柯林斯，而《Cook Political Report》上个月将此次竞选的倾向转向了民主党。
With early voting underway, Ossoff is leading Collins by nearly 10 percentage points in Decision Desk HQ’s latest polling averages on the race, and Cook Political Report shifted the contest toward Democrats last month.
但共和党人并未放弃在桃州实现翻盘的希望。特朗普将于周五前往佐治亚州为柯林斯助选，作为在红州巡回活动的一部分，以激发共和党选民的热情。
But Republicans aren’t giving up on a flip in the Peach State. Trump is headed to Georgia on Friday to campaign for Collins as part of a red-state swing to rev up Republican voters.
周二的正面交锋是佐治亚州参议院竞赛的最后一场预定辩论，由亚特兰大新闻俱乐部主办。以下是四个要点：奥索夫承诺若连任将完成整个参议院任期奥索夫周二承诺，若连任将服满整个六年参议院任期，并重申他“对2028年总统竞选零兴趣”，尽管外界一直在讨论这位首届参议员的政治前景。
Tuesday’s face-off was the last scheduled debate in the Georgia Senate race, hosted by the Atlanta Press Club. Here are four takeaways:
“会的，”奥索夫在被问及若在11月赢得选举是否承诺服满整个任期时说道。
Ossoff commits to full Senate term if reelected Ossoff committed on Tuesday to serving a full six-year Senate term and reiterated that he has “zero interest” in a 2028 presidential campaign, despite chatter about the first-term senator’s political future.
“我对参加总统竞选零兴趣。我不参加总统竞选。我参加的是参议院连选。”奥索夫在2020年备受关注的决选中赢得了他的第一个任期，他长期否认关于可能参选总统的猜测，尽管这并未阻止观察者将他视为该党潜在的旗手。
“Yes, I will,” Ossoff said, when asked to pledge his commitment serving a full term if he wins the race in November. “I have zero interest in running for president. I’m not running for president. I’m running for re-election to the Senate.”
民主党人明显看出奥索夫和前总统奥巴马在政治言辞和风格上有相似之处——奥巴马曾于2006年著名地表示，在他完成伊利诺伊州参议员任期期间不会竞选总统，但后来改变主意，参加了2008年的竞选。
Ossoff, who won his first term in a high-profile 2020 cycle runoff, has long denied speculation about a possible presidential run, though that hasn’t stopped observers from looking to the rising political star as a potential standard-bearer for the party.
科林斯在辩论台上反驳奥索夫的回答，说：“他在竞选总统。他将成为你们的DSA候选人”，指的是本周期美国民主社会主义者（DSA）这一极左翼组织接连获胜。奥索夫不是DSA成员。
Democrats have notably seen similarities in the political rhetoric and style of both Ossoff and former President Obama — who famously said in 2006 that he would not run for the presidency as he served out his Senate term in Illinois, but later backtracked and ran in the 2008 cycle. Collins on the debate stage pushed back against Ossoff’s answer, saying “he is running for president. He’s going to be your DSA candidate,” in a reference to this cycle’s string of far-left Democratic Socialist of America (DSA) wins.
科林斯再次拒绝承认特朗普在2020年大选中失利 科林斯多次回避主持人和其参议院对手关于特朗普总统2020年总统大选中未经证实的大规模选民舞弊指控的提问。
Ossoff is not a DSA member.
“你仍然相信特朗普在2020年击败了乔·拜登吗？”《亚特兰大宪法报》的格雷格·布卢斯坦问道。
Collins again refuses to say Trump lost 2020 election Collins repeatedly sidestepped questions from moderators and his Senate rival about President Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. “Do you still believe that Trump defeated Joe Biden in 2020?” said the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Greg Bluestein.
“是啊，你知道，乔·拜登上任了，天哪，佐治亚人为此付出了代价。看看拜登执政期间发生了什么，”这位众议员说。
“Yeah, you know, Joe Biden went into office, and boy, Georgians paid for it. Look at what happened during the Biden years,” the congressman said.
后来，奥索夫因科林斯早前未作回答而追问，再次询问特朗普是否赢得了2020年大选。
Later, Ossoff pressed Collins for not answering earlier, re-asking whether Trump won the 2020 election.
“知道，2020年大选。大家都看过我、我的观点，”科林斯说。“那次选举有很多疑问。是的，乔·拜登是总统。”奥索夫追问说他没听到对该问题的回答，并在辩论后期再次提出。
“You know, the 2020 election. Everybody’s seen my, my views on that,” Collins said. “There was a lot of doubt in that election. Yes, Joe Biden was the president.”Ossoff pressed that he didn’t hear an answer to the question, and raised it again later in the debate.
“你今晚仍未回答你是否相信唐纳德·特朗普真赢了2020年大选。这是你的第三次机会。唐纳德·特朗普真的赢了2020年大选吗？你想回答吗，迈克？” “我多次说过乔·拜登在2021年是总统，”科林斯回答。
“You still haven’t answered tonight whether you believe Donald Trump actually won the 2020 election. Here’s your third chance. Did Donald Trump really win the 2020 election? You want to answer, Mike?”“I have said numerous times that Joe Biden was the president in 2021,” Collins replied.
特朗普继续质疑2020年大选结果，当时他以微弱劣势在佐治亚州输给前总统拜登，并向佐治亚州州务卿布拉德·拉芬斯珀格（共和党）及其他官员施压，要求推翻结果。候选人就爱泼斯坦问题展开冲突候选人就与爱泼斯坦有关的所谓联系和文件展开冲突，爱泼斯坦是一名被定罪的性犯罪者和声名狼藉的金融家，他于2019年在狱中去世。
Trump has continued to challenge the results of the 2020 election, when he narrowly lost Georgia to former President Biden and put pressure on Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) and other officials to overturn the results. Candidates clash over Epstein The candidates clashed over alleged ties and files related to Epstein, the convicted sex offender and disgraced financier who died in prison in 2019.
柯林斯表示，奥索夫的广告是由里德·霍夫曼支付的，后者是一名科技亿万富翁和主要的民主党捐款人，与爱泼斯坦有关联。特朗普在启动对多名有此类关联的民主党人的调查后，霍夫曼去年表示，他“从未是爱泼斯坦的客户，也从未与他有除为麻省理工学院筹款之外的任何往来”。
Collins said that ads for Ossoff were paid for by Reid Hoffman, a tech billionaire and major Democratic donor with ties to Epstein. After Trump launched an investigation into a number of Democrats with such ties, Hoffman said last year that he was “never a client of Epstein’s and never had any engagement with him other than fundraising for MIT,” referring to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
“乔恩，电话是从屋里打进来的。你说的那个爱泼斯坦班级？我现在就看着他呢，”柯林斯说。
“Jon, the call’s coming from the inside the house. The Epstein class that you’re talking about? I’m looking at him right now,” Collins said.
但奥索夫通过指出柯林斯在释放爱泼斯坦相关文件上的投票来反击。
But Ossoff pushed back by pointing to Collins’s votes on releasing Epstein-related files.
“迈克，你团队里谁建议你提起爱泼斯坦文件的？你投票掩盖了证据，”奥索夫在辩论后期推回，指出特朗普在爱泼斯坦文件中被多次提及。“你应该现在就向杰弗里·爱泼斯坦的受害者解释这次投票。”奥索夫表示对最高法院扩员持开放态度奥索夫表示他对最高法院扩员持开放态度，但强调首要任务应是为大法官制定行为准则。
“Mike, who on your team advised you to raise the Epstein files? You voted to cover up the evidence,” Ossoff pushed back later in the debate, noting that Trump is named multiple times in the Epstein files. “You should explain that vote to Jeffrey Epstein’s victims right now.”Ossoff signals openness to packing Supreme Court Ossoff signaled he’s open to packing the Supreme Court, but stressed that the priority should be on a code of ethics for justices.
“我不排除任何司法改革，但我认为在考虑类似事情时，我们必须采取长远眼光，”参议员在被问及如果民主党赢得参议院时应如何处理此议题时说道。
“I don’t rule out any judicial reform, but I think we have to take the long view whenever we consider anything like that,” the senator said when asked about the topic should Democrats clinch the Senate.
“我认为我们的焦点应放在为最高法院大法官制定具有约束力的行为准则上，因为当美国公众看到最高法院大法官接受来自在法院有业务关系人士的昂贵礼物，或接受来自具有意识形态或党派倾向记录人士的礼物时，他们理所当然会感到愤怒。”
“I think our focus should be a binding code of ethics for Supreme Court justices, because the American public is rightly offended when they see Supreme Court justices accepting lavish gifts from people who have business before the court, or from people who have a record of ideological or partisan advocacy.”
奥索夫在2020年竞选该职位时曾表示，他反对增加全国最高法院的席位。
As he ran for the office in 2020, Ossoff said he was opposed to adding more seats to the nation’s highest court.
“我认为司法改革是国会的职权范围，而我不支持的是，仅仅因为我们不喜欢一位已获确认的大法官的政策立场，就向最高法院增设一个席位。”奥索夫当时表示。
“I think judicial reform is a prerogative of Congress, and what I don’t support is adding a seat to the Supreme Court because we don’t like the policy positions of a justice that has been confirmed,” Ossoff said at the time.
这位民主党人还在周二呼吁国会制定“更为严格”的道德准则，因为柯林斯的办公室目前正受到众议院道德委员会的联邦调查，指控其滥用纳税人的资金。
The Democrat also called on Tuesday for a “much stronger” ethical code in Congress, where Collins’s office is under federal investigation from the House Ethics Committee for alleged misuse of tax dollars.
然而，柯林斯则表示自己“完全配合”了调查，并称其为“无关紧要的事情”和“只不过是一次攻击行动”。
Collins, though, said he’s “fully complied” with the probe and called it a “nothing burger” and “just a hit job.”