特朗普主义会因为阿拉斯加育空河不再有三文鱼逆流而上而被推翻吗？这个问题看似轻率，但美国参议院控制权在11月3日中期选举中的争夺结果在很大程度上取决于这个面积是法国三倍的州的选票。在选举前夕，阿拉斯加河流中三文鱼的稀缺已成为该州的主要议题。在此背景下，变化可能以民主党候选人玛丽·佩尔托拉的形式出现，她是一位尤皮克原住民女性的女儿，父亲是德国血统的中西部飞行员，她希望夺回该州现任共和党参议员丹·沙利文的席位。
Could Trumpism be overturned because salmon are no longer making their way up the Yukon River in Alaska? The question may seem flip, but the outcome of the battle for control of the United States Senate in the November 3 midterm elections hinges significantly on the vote in this state, which is three times the size of France. In the lead-up to the race, the scarcity of salmon in Alaska's rivers has become the state's major issue. In that context, change could take the form of Democratic candidate Mary Peltola, daughter of a Yup'ik Indigenous woman and a Midwest pilot of German descent, who hopes to take the seat of one of its current senators, Republican Dan Sullivan.
美国总统唐纳德·特朗普于10月13日星期二在安克雷奇以北的瓦西拉举行集会，以支持沙利文。
United States President Donald Trump held a rally in Wasilla, north of Anchorage, on Tuesday, October 13, in support of Sullivan.
佩尔托拉今年53岁，曾在2022年至2024年期间代表阿拉斯加唯一的众议院席位，但在2024年特朗普浪潮席卷而来时落选。在《纽约时报》9月的一项调查中，她在华盛顿的前员工指责她虐待员工——她予以否认——但她仍然深受欢迎，并且对该地区非常熟悉，因为她曾在阿拉斯加西南部偏远村庄长大。“我出生在库斯科威姆河畔，与父亲一起捕捞三文鱼。”
Peltola, 53, represented Alaska's lone House seat from 2022 until her defeat in 2024 when the Trump wave swept her out. In a September New York Times investigation, former staffers in Washington accused her of mistreatment – which she denies – but she remains popular and deeply familiar with the region, having grown up in the remote villages of southwest Alaska. "I grew up on the Kuskokwim, fishing salmon with my father.
她的丈夫巴兹（Buzzy，2023年在一起飞机失事中去世）和她在这里抚养了七个孩子，并漫长的夏日在鱼营度过。与家人一起捕鱼是阿拉斯加人学习人生课堂的地方，”她的网站如此宣称。
Buzzy [her husband, who died in a plane crash in 2023] and I raised our seven kids here and spent long summer days at fish camp. Fishing with family is where Alaskans learn life’s lessons," her website declares.