吉尔·科尔文、亚伦·凯斯勒 纽约——总统唐纳德·特朗普表示，他希望选民在今年的中期选举中假装他仍在投票名单上。他的竞争对手正竭力帮助他的说法。
JILL COLVIN, AARON KESSLER NEW YORK — President Donald Trump says he wants voters to pretend that he’s on the ballot in this year’s midterm elections. His rivals are doing their best to help his case.
据美联社对AdImpact数据的分析——该机构统计媒体支出——自9月1日至今，民主党候选人及其盟友在提及总统的电视广告上已花费超过1.63亿美元。
Democratic candidates and their allies have spent more than $163 million since Sept. 1 on television advertising that mentions the president, according to an Associated Press analysis of data from AdImpact, which charts media spending.
数据显示，这包括在广播、 cable 和流媒体平台上近18万次播放提及特朗普的广告。与此同时，共和党人在同一时期仅以约1100万美元的成本播放了约1.6万次提及总统的广告。这在党内对这位主导却不受欢迎的领袖的沉默中格外显眼。
That includes airing ads that reference Trump on broadcast, cable and streaming nearly 180,000 times, the data shows. Republicans, meanwhile, have run ads that talk about the president just 16,000 times, at an estimated cost of $11 million, over the same period. It’s a noticeable silence about the party’s dominant yet unpopular leader.
许多民主党广告指责共和党对手在关税和伊朗战争等议题上站在总统一边，称这些政策导致成本飙升。
Many of the Democrats’ ads accuse Republican opponents of siding with the president over voters, particularly on issues like tariffs and the Iran war, which they blame for jacking up costs.
其中一则广告来自正在连任竞选的乔治亚州参议员乔恩·奥索夫的竞选团队，该团队在一则针对其竞争对手、众议员迈克·柯林斯的特朗普聚焦广告上花费近300万美元，指责其与总统关系密切。
The ads include one from the campaign of Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff, who is running for reelection and has spent nearly $3 million on a Trump-focused ad attacking his rival, Rep. Mike Collins, for his close relationship with the president.
广告称：“迈克·柯林斯投票支持特朗普在伊朗的战争，使油价飙升至天价。他投票支持特朗普的关税，使食品价格飞涨。迈克·柯林斯还与特朗普一起将超过一百万乔治亚人的健康保险保费翻倍。” “迈克·柯林斯站在唐纳德·特朗普一边，让你付出更高代价。”
“Mike Collins voted for Trump’s war in Iran, sending gas prices through the roof. He voted for Trump’s tariffs, sending grocery prices soaring. And Mike Collins voted with Trump to double health insurance premiums for more than a million Georgians,” it says. “Mike Collins sides with Donald Trump and makes you pay more.”
共和党全国委员会发言人娜塔莉·巴尔达萨雷表示，民主党的信息传递反映了该党空洞而非强大的本质。
Republican National Committee spokesperson Natalie Baldassarre said Democratic messaging reflected the party’s hollowness instead of its strength.
“民主党人在谈论特朗普总统时是在浪费金钱，因为他们除了调查、阻碍和弹劾之外别无议程，”她说。“特朗普失调综合征不是一个政策平台，而是一种价值1.6亿美元的说法，意思是你对美国人民一无所有。”众议院多数党政治行动委员会（House Majority PAC）的另一则广告——该超级政治行动委员会致力于让民主党人当选众议员——开头是一位中年妇女站在厨房灶台旁，谈到她的家庭“勉强维持生计”，随后她表达了对宾夕法尼亚州众议员布莱恩·菲茨帕特里克（Brian Fitzpatrick）的失望，他是共和党脆弱的在任议员之一。
“Democrats are lighting money on fire talking about President Trump because they have no agenda other than investigation, obstruction and impeachment,” she said. “Trump Derangement Syndrome isn’t a policy platform, it’s a $160 million way of saying you have nothing to offer to the American people.”Another ad from the House Majority PAC, a super PAC dedicated to electing Democrats to the House, opens with a middle-age woman standing over her kitchen stove and talking about how her family is “barely getting by” before she expresses her disappointment in Pennsylvania Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, who is one of Republicans’ vulnerable incumbents .
“他以前是独立的。但现在看来，他似乎与唐纳德·特朗普步调一致。这真的让我很困扰，”她说，并补充道，“菲茨帕特里克众议员不再代表我们了。”事实上，自9月1日起在宾夕法尼亚州激烈竞争的第一国会选区播出的所有民主党广告都提到了特朗普，尽管菲茨帕特里克曾投反对票反对特朗普的关税以及他在未获国会批准的情况下对伊朗发动战争的权力。
“He used to be independent. But now it seems like he’s in lockstep with Donald Trump. It really bothers me,” she says, adding, “Congressman Fitzpatrick is not for us anymore.”Indeed, all the Democratic ads that have aired in Pennsylvania’s tightly contested 1st Congressional District since Sept. 1 have mentioned Trump, even though Fitzpatrick voted against Trump’s tariffs and his power to wage war against Iran without congressional approval.
AdImpact的数据显示，所有四则谈论特朗普的广告在此期间累计播出了2000次。菲茨帕特里克正受到民主党人鲍勃·哈维（Bob Harvie）的挑战，哈维是一名县委员，曾任社会研究老师。民主党策略人士表示，这种信息传递反映了选民的情绪。
All four of the ads talking about Trump have aired a combined 2,000 times in that period, the AdImpact data shows. Fitzpatrick is being challenged by Democrat Bob Harvie, a county commissioner who is a former social studies teacher. Democratic strategists say the messaging reflects the sentiment of voters.
“每一项民调和每一次焦点小组讨论都显示，可负担性是选民的首要问题，他们特别指出腐败政客是导致物价上涨的责任方，”众议院多数党政治行动委员会发言人卡塔琳娜·弗利克（Katarina Flicker）说。
“Every single poll and every single focus group shows affordability to be voters’ number one issue, and they specifically point to corrupt politicians as being responsible for driving up prices,” said House Majority PAC spokesperson Katarina Flicker.
在AdImpact追踪的数十个议题类别中，分析发现，在众议院和参议院竞选的最后阶段，特朗普是民主党人提及的第四常见议题，仅次于医疗保健、税收以及关于对手受特殊利益集团左右的指控。
Out of dozens of issue categories tracked by AdImpact, the analysis found that Trump was the fourth most common issue mentioned by Democrats in House and Senate races’ final stretch. It was topped only by healthcare, taxes and accusations about opponents being beholden to special interests.
对于同一场竞选中的共和党人，以特朗普为主题的广告排名第33位。相比之下，他们广告中的主要议题是税收和犯罪。
For Republicans in the same races, Trump-themed ads clocked in at number 33, by comparison. The top issues in their ads were taxes and crime.
爱达荷州共和党参议员吉姆·里施告诉观众，他“与特朗普总统并肩作战，通过了美国历史上对工作家庭最大的减税。”自9月1日起，在竞选的最后阶段，民主党在所有联邦、州和地方选举中的广告支出或计划支出总计达18亿美元。共和党全国范围内的广告支出或预留金额为22亿美元。
Idaho Republican Senator Jim Risch tells viewers he “fought alongside President Trump to pass the biggest tax cuts for working families in American history.”Overall in the race’s final stretch since Sept. 1, Democrats have spent or plan to spend $1.8 billion in ads across all federal, state and local elections. Republicans have spent or reserved $2.2 billion nationwide.
共和党策略师亚历克斯·康南特表示，民主党正在寄望特朗普能激发其基本盘投票，这种做法他们在过去十年里一直常用。
Republican strategist Alex Conant said Democrats are banking on Trump motivating their base to vote, an approach they’ve routinely used over the last decade.
“民主党希望此次选举成为对特朗普的公投。他们希望把对共和党候选人的投票等同于对特朗普的投票，”他说。对于康南特所在的党派来说，情况则不同。
“Democrats want this election to be a referendum on Trump. They want to equate a vote for a Republican candidate to a vote for Trump,” he said. For Conant’s party, its a different calculus.
“我们有大量资金，正在向墙上投掷各种各样的信息，以看看哪些能奏效，”他说。“今年没有千篇一律的共和党广告。而民主党的广告则相当明显。”
“We have a ton of money and we’re throwing every kind of message on the wall to see what sticks,” he said. “There’s not a cookie-cutter Republican ad this year. Whereas the Democratic ads are pretty obvious.”