特朗普在阿拉斯加开展竞选活动，指出高昂的能源成本和伊朗战争对当地选民造成了严重影响，这为民主党人赢得了一个难得的机会——他们有可能在该州赢得参议院席位。
Trump campaigned in Alaska as high fuel costs and the Iran war hurt voters, giving Democrats a rare chance to win a Senate seat.
民调显示，民主党候选人玛丽·佩尔托拉与现任共和党参议员丹·沙利文的支持率持平或略占优势；而共和党人则希望特朗普的访问能够提高这个极度保守地区的选民投票率。
Polling shows Mary Peltola tied or ahead of Dan Sullivan, while Republicans hope Trump’s visit will lift turnout in a deeply conservative town.
特朗普承诺伊朗战争会很快结束，能源价格也会下降，但许多阿拉斯加居民表示，能源成本以及他们对战争的失望情绪仍在持续困扰着他们。
Trump promised the Iran war would end soon and prices would fall, but many Alaskans said energy costs and frustration with the war are still hurting them.
美国中期选举还有三周时间，10月13日，唐纳德·特朗普总统在偏远的阿拉斯加展开了竞选活动。阿拉斯加是几个民主党人有可能扭转参议院局势的保守派州之一——因为当地选民对生活成本和伊朗战争感到不满。
AI generated WASILLA, Alaska – With three weeks to go before the US midterm elections, President Donald Trump campaigned in remote Alaska on Oct 13, one of several conservative states where Democrats have a rare chance of flipping a Senate seat amid voter dissatisfaction with the cost of living and the Iran war. Polls have shown Democratic candidate Mary Peltola tied with or slightly ahead of incumbent Republican Senator Dan Sullivan in a state that Trump carried by about 14 percentage points in 2024.
民调显示，在2024年特朗普以约14个百分点的优势赢得该州选举的情况下，此次选举中民主党候选人玛丽·佩尔托拉与现任共和党参议员丹·沙利文的支持率持平或略占优势。
In Alaska, as in much of the US, the President’s approval rating is underwater, hit by rising diesel and petrol prices and a conflict in the Middle East that has proven deeply unpopular with voters.
与美国大部分地区一样，特朗普的的支持率持续低迷——柴油和汽油价格的上涨，以及中东地区的冲突，都严重损害了他的支持率。
Energy shocks have an outsized impact on this vast Arctic state, where people depend on heating oil to brave the long winters and many products must be flown, shipped or trucked across vast distances.
对于这个位于北极地区的州来说，能源问题具有极其重要的影响：当地居民依赖取暖用油来度过漫长的冬季，许多商品都必须通过空运、海运或卡车运输才能送达。
Opening for Trump, Sullivan acknowledged that Alaskans face “challenges” when it comes to energy costs.
在演讲中，沙利文承认阿拉斯加居民确实面临着能源成本方面的“挑战”；但他表示：“中东的冲突只是暂时的。真正的‘持久战争’，是民主党人对阿拉斯加石油和天然气产业以及当地就业机会的攻击。”共和党选择在韦萨拉（Wasilla）举行集会，这个仅有约1万人口的保守小镇位于安克雷奇（Anchorage）以北45分钟车程处——这一选择符合他们当前的政治策略。
But “the conflict in the Middle East is temporary”, he said. “The true forever war is the national Democrats’ war against Alaska oil and gas and our jobs.”
特朗普倾向于在那些倾向于保守派的地区开展竞选活动，而不是在政治观点更为多元、潜在选票更多的地区。
The Republicans’ decision to hold a rally in Wasilla, a deeply conservative town of roughly 10,000 people about 45 minutes north of Anchorage, the state’s most populous city, fits an emerging pattern.
分析人士表示，这一策略有助于在选举当天动员特朗普最忠实的支持者；同时，这一策略也会让特朗普与那些对他的总统任期感到失望的独立选民及政治中间派保持距离。
Trump has taken to campaigning in conservative-leaning parts of competitive states, rather than in more politically diverse areas with more votes potentially up for grabs.
特朗普在一片白桦树、云杉树和杨树环绕的体育场馆登台后不久，便宣称伊朗战争“很快就会结束……物价也会随之下降”。
The strategy could help turn out his most devoted supporters on election day, analysts say, while keeping Trump far from the independents and political moderates who have soured on his presidency.
他强调：“我为这个州所做的贡献超过了联邦政府为其他任何州所做的贡献”，并提到了他的政府为吸引亚洲投资参与阿拉斯加输油管道项目、资助新建电力线路以及扩大高速互联网覆盖范围所做出的努力。
Soon after taking the stage at a sports complex surrounded by birch, spruce and aspen trees, Trump vowed the Iran war would “end very soon... and prices will come tumbling down”.
此外，特朗普还赦免了两名因违反《联邦清洁空气法》（即拆除柴油发动机上的污染控制装置）而被定罪的当地修理店老板。
“I’ve done more for this state than any other state in the union,” he said, highlighting his administration’s efforts to attract Asian investment in an Alaskan pipeline project, fund new power lines and expand high-speed internet access.
他还鼓励共和党人通过邮寄方式投票——尽管他自己一直试图限制和贬低这种投票方式。
At one point, Trump pardoned two local repair shop owners convicted of violating the federal Clean Air Act for removing pollution controls from diesel engines.
68岁的兰斯·米利恩来自瓦西拉，是一名退休的工头。他早早地来到了10月13日的集会现场，对伊朗战争表示不满，但仍表示会投票给沙利文：“我是共和党人，一个坚定的共和党人。”
He also encouraged Republicans to vote by mail – a process he has repeatedly sought to curtail and discredit. Lance Million, 68, a retired foreman from Wasilla who showed up early for the Oct 13 rally, expressed dissatisfaction with the Iran war but said he would vote for Sullivan because “I’m a Republican, a staunch Republican”.
米利恩说：“我对特朗普未能及时结束伊朗战争感到有些失望。”不过他补充道：“目前我们确实没有其他选择，因为只有沙利文或佩尔托拉这两个候选人可供选择。”
“I’m a little bit disappointed in Trump for not getting it (the war in Iran) over with in a timely manner,” Million said. Still, he said, “we just don’t have any other choice at this point in time because it’s either Sullivan or Peltola”.
民调显示，民主党在竞争中的优势明显：美国众议院的全部435个席位以及参议院的100个席位中的35个席位将在11月3日决出。
Polls lean towards Democrats All 435 seats in the US House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 US Senate seats will be decided on Nov 3.
民意调查表明，共和党可能会失去对国会两院的控制权，这可能会限制特朗普在总统任期的最后两年内推行其政策的能力。
Public opinion polls suggest Republicans may lose control of one or both houses of Congress, which would likely limit Trump’s ability to enact his policies in the final two years of his presidency.
《纽约时报》与锡耶纳大学联合发布的一项民调显示，佩尔托拉（一位出生于阿拉斯加的政客，曾在2022年至2025年间担任该州唯一的众议院议员）以7个百分点的优势领先；不过也有民调认为选举竞争会更加激烈。
A New York Times/Siena survey released on Oct 3 showed Peltola, an Alaska native who served as the state’s sole US House representative from 2022 to 2025, leading by 7 percentage points, though some polls point to a much tighter race.
阿拉斯加共和党前通讯主任苏珊·唐宁表示，燃油价格正拖累农村生活的方方面面，并成为共和党的一大累赘。
Suzanne Downing, the former communications director for the Alaska Republican Party, said fuel prices were weighing on every aspect of rural life and proving a major drag on Republicans.
她说，阿拉斯加男性在本轮选举中对投票尤为冷淡——这对共和党来说可能是个问题，因为他们倾向于保守。“坦普，但他们觉得自己被辜负了，”唐宁说。她补充道，在瓦西拉造势有助于总统“重振”基本盘。
She said Alaskan men in particular were apathetic about voting this cycle – a potential problem for Republicans as they tend to be conservative. “They like Trump, but they feel like they’ve been let down,” Downing said. Campaigning in Wasilla could help the President “reinvigorate” his base, she added.
曾任阿拉斯加州检察长的沙利文，一直是石油天然气钻探（包括在北极国家野生动物保护区钻探）的坚定倡导者，并强调了该州的战略重要性，因为美国正与俄罗斯和中国在北极控制权问题上日益激烈竞争。
Sullivan, a former Alaska attorney-general, has been a strong advocate for oil and gas drilling, including in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and has emphasised the state’s strategic importance amid growing US competition with Russia and China over control of the Arctic.
佩尔托拉在2022年创造历史，成为首位当选代表阿拉斯加进入联邦众议院的阿拉斯加原住民和女性。
Peltola made history in 2022 as the first Alaska native and first woman elected to represent the state in the House of Representatives.
她塑造了务实、两党合作的形象，聚焦渔业等本地议题，但在2024年连任竞选中败给了共和党人尼克·贝吉奇三世。
She cultivated a pragmatic, bipartisan image and focused on local issues such as fisheries but lost her 2024 re-election bid to Republican Nick Begich III.
针对沙利文此前对其履历的批评，佩尔托拉表示，她支持在北极国家野生动物保护区开发石油天然气，并称自己不是典型的全国性民主党人。
Responding to previous criticism from Sullivan over her record, Peltola has said she supports oil and gas development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and that she is not a typical national Democrat.
来自安克雷奇、60多岁的退休州政府职员乔·贝内特自称曾为两党投票，她是10月13日下午一群在安克雷奇至瓦西拉高速公路立交桥上张贴标语的女性之一。标语合起来写着：“战争是加$油的痛。”
Jo Bennett, a retired state worker from Anchorage in her 60s who said she has voted for both parties, was among a group of women on the afternoon of Oct 13 putting up placards on an overpass along the highway between Anchorage and Wasilla. Together they read: “War is a pain in the ga$.”
贝内特在一家加油站说：“我差点晕倒，因为给我的小车加满油竟然要将近50美元，而它油耗还算不错。” 路透社
At a gas station recently, Bennett said, “I about fell over because it was almost US$50 to fill my little, pretty-decent-gas-mileage car.”REUTERS