德克萨斯州哈里斯县——这个美国人口最多的县在2024年选举中由卡玛拉·哈里斯以52%的得票率获胜——在周一打破了早期投票的纪录，投票人数比之前的纪录多出了41,000人。根据该县的选举部门统计，周一有超过104,600名选民亲自前往投票站投票，这打破了2018年创下的纪录（当时共有63,188人投票，民主党最终重新夺回了该县的众议院席位）。
Harris County, Texas—Texas’s most populous county, which Kamala Harris won in 2024 with 52 percent of the vote—broke its early voting record on Monday, eclipsing the previous mark by a whopping 41,000 votes. More than 104,600 people in Harris County voted in person on Monday, the first day of early voting in Texas, according to the county’s elections department. That breaks the previous record set in 2018, when 63,188 votes were cast and Democrats went on to recapture the House.
虽然周一的投票人数并不一定意味着民主党会占据优势，但这一纪录的打破表明，德克萨斯州的选民受到了多种因素的推动而积极参与选举活动，这些因素可能包括投票成本的降低、联邦移民执法局的突击行动，以及特朗普政府对伊朗的军事行动。
While Monday’s turnout isn’t necessarily indicative of a Democratic advantage, the broken record indicates that Texans have been strongly compelled to participate electorally by any number of factors, which could include affordability, ICE raids, and President Trump’s war on Iran.
一位选民对KPRC电视台的桑迪·托雷斯（Sandy Torres）说：“两年前我买一罐咖啡只需要12美元，现在同样的东西却要25美元，这太荒谬了。”
“The coffee that I buy two years ago was $12 for a big can, and now it’s $25 for the same thing, it’s ridiculous,” one voter told KPRC-TV’s Sandy Torres.
另一位选民表示：“生活成本太高了，再加上伊朗战争以及我们对乌克兰的支持，这些都促使人们必须参与投票。”
“[The] cost of living is way too high, war in Iran, our support to Ukraine,” said another.
还有一位选民说：“这个州已经被同一个政党统治了三十年；是时候让另一个政党也有机会执政了。”
“Thirty years of one party dominating the state; it’s time to get the other guy’s chance,” said one more.
此次投票活动的积极态势发生在一场全国最具争议的参议院选举前夕——这场选举的对手是共和党州检察长肯·帕克斯顿（Ken Paxton）和民主党人詹姆斯·塔拉里科（James Talarico）；如果民主党获胜，该州可能会在三十多年来首次转为民主党控制。
This comes ahead of one of the most contested Senate races in the country between Republican state Attorney General Ken Paxton and Democrat James Talarico—a contest that could turn the state blue for the first time in over three decades.
值得注意的是，这一积极进展发生在投票权利组织起诉德克萨斯州公共安全部之后不到一周的时间。此前，由于系统故障，导致60万德克萨斯人的投票登记被推迟。哈里斯县的早期投票活动还将持续11天。
This positive development also comes less than a week after voting rights groups sued the Texas Department of Public Safety over a “glitch” that caused 600,000 Texans to have their voting registration delayed. Early voting is open for 11 more days in Harris County.
特朗普总统声称，如果民主党在11月的中期选举中获胜，美国将会像法国一样陷入混乱。周二在堪萨斯州帕克城（Park City）举行的集会上，特朗普提到了法国的学生抗议活动，并利用反移民偏见和伊斯兰恐惧症来煽动共和党选民在接下来的两周内积极参与投票。
President Trump is claiming that the U.S. will burn like France if Democrats triumph in November’s midterm elections. At a rally in Park City, Kansas, Tuesday, Trump referenced the student protests in France, using anti-immigrant bigotry and Islamophobia to try and scare Republicans into turning out over the next two weeks.
“全球主义左翼背叛国家，输入了数以百万计的第三世界移民，他们与西方完全不兼容，也与西方价值观不兼容。他们鄙视法国的一切，正在毁灭那个国家，而我们绝不允许这种事情发生在我们国家，”特朗普在演讲中表示。尽管抗议者不断打断，人群仍对特朗普的话报以掌声。
“Globalist left-wing have treasonously imported millions and millions of third world migrants who are totally incompatible with the West, and they are incompatible with Western values. They despise everything about France, and they’re destroying that country, and we’re not going to let that happen to this country,” Trump said during his speech. Despite interruptions by protesters, the crowd broke into applause at Trump’s words.
哇——特朗普很难进入演讲状态，因为他持续遭到嘘声干扰 2026年10月20日“当你们看到法国燃烧的尖塔和熊熊大火时，请记住，这就是激进的‘民主党人’想对美国做的事，”特朗普补充道。
wow -- Trump is having a hard time getting into his speech because he's being distracted by continuous heckling October 20, 2026“When you see burning steeples and raging fires in France, just remember that is what the radical Dumocrats want to do to America,” Trump added.
特朗普之所以去堪萨斯州，是因为共和党民调支持率跌至历史低位，因他自己的糟糕经济政策和发动的一场不明智的战争，原本稳操胜券的候选人现在都陷入了险境。共和党参议员罗杰·马歇尔原本预计将在该州轻松获胜，但现在却与民主党牧师亚当·汉密尔顿支持率不相上下。特朗普对捏造的骚乱幽灵进行恐吓宣传，这是绝望之举，不太可能动摇任何摇摆选民，因为他们亲眼目睹燃料价格飙升和通货膨胀。
Trump is only in Kansas because the Republican Party is polling historically low putting normally safe candidates in jeopardy thanks to his own bad economic policies and an ill-advised war he started. Republican Senator Roger Marshall was expected to coast to victory in the state, but is now polling neck and neck with Democratic pastor Adam Hamilton Trump’s fearmongering over the invented specter of riots is a desperate effort that isn’t likely to sway any voters on the fence, who can plainly see skyrocketing fuel prices and inflation with their own eyes.
此外，如果共和党大败，根据近期历史，美国政治分歧的哪一方更有可能暴力抗议？副总统JD·万斯不确定总统是否会在2028年大选中支持他。
Besides, if Republicans lose big, which side of the American political divide, based on recent history is more likely to violently protest? Vice President JD Vance isn’t so sure that the president will have his back in the 2028 election.
这位42岁的副总统理论上本应是唐纳德·特朗普的得力助手和政治继承人。然而，在特朗普第二任期近两年后，两人仍未步调一致。周一，副总统在“空军二号”上接受保守派评论员马克·哈尔佩林的专访时，似乎并不自信一定能获得特朗普的背书。
The 42-year-old is theoretically supposed to be Donald Trump’s right-hand man and political successor. Yet nearly two years into Trump’s second administration, the two still aren’t on the same page. In a sit-down interview with conservative commentator Mark Halperin on Air Force Two Monday, the vice president didn’t seem so confident that he would definitely obtain Trump’s endorsement.
哈尔佩林向万斯提出了两个问题：第一，他是否打算竞选总统；第二，他是否会“肯定”获得特朗普的背书。
Halperin posed two questions to Vance: first, if he planned to run for president, and second, if he would “definitely” obtain Trump’s endorsement.
“我会告诉你，马克，我专注于中期选举，我想让尽可能多的优秀共和党人在11月初当选，”万斯说。
“I’ll tell you Mark that I’m focused on the midterm elections and I want to get as many good Republicans elected in early November as possible,” Vance said.
“听着，我真的还没决定2028年要做什么，我真的还没关注过这事，”他接着说。“你我聊过这事。听着，我觉得如果我参选，总统会背书我。”
“Look, I really have not made up my mind about what to do in 2028, I really haven’t focused on it,” he continued. “You and I have talked about that. Look, I think if I run, the president will endorse me.”
“马上？一开始就背书？”哈尔佩林追问。“换句话说，你宣布参选的那天，他就会背书你，对吧？”“我也不知道，伙计，我没跟他聊过这事，”万斯笑了。
“Right away? Right at the beginning?” pressed Halperin. “In other words, the day you announce. He’d endorse you, right?”“I don’t know, man, I haven’t talked to him about it,” Vance laughed.
“但要是你说‘总统先生，我要参选’，他说‘让我想想’，那挺怪的，”哈尔佩林说。但万斯含糊其辞。
“It would be kind of weird though if you said, ‘Mr. President, I’m going to run,’ and he said, ‘Let me think about it,’” Halperin said. But Vance equivocated.
“不，那不怪，”万斯说。“我觉得我会得到他的背书，但我也觉得，让人们真正去跑自己的选程也是有道理的。因为总统的背书具有决定性，完全可以想象这样一种情形：总统说，‘你们知道吗，我们得让这场竞选自然发展，不要预先预判结果。’”“有时候媒体审视、压力、政策目标——”万斯继续说道，哈尔佩林插话称他“可能会干得很烂”。
“No, it wouldn’t be weird,” Vance said. “I think I’d get his endorsement, but I also think there’s something to be said for people actually running their own race. And because the president’s endorsement is so dispositive, you could absolutely see a scenario where the president says, ‘You know what, we need to let this race play out and not preemptively prejudge the results.’”“Sometimes media scrutiny, pressure, policy goals—” Vance continued before Halperin interjected that he “might be horrible at it.”
“我会干得很烂，”万斯说。“所以我也不知道，既然从未跟总统聊过这事，我无法揣测他对此的心理活动。但我的态度是，如果我参选，我觉得总统会背书我。但我也没跟他聊过这事。”唐纳德·特朗普总统深夜连发多条帖文，发泄对东波托马克公园杂物和破损情况的不满，再次大发脾气。
“I would be terrible at it,” Vance said. “So I don’t know, having never spoken to the president about this, I can’t speak to his psychology on it. But my attitude is, if I run, I think the president will endorse me. But I also haven’t talked to him about it.”President Donald Trump went on a late-night posting spree about debris and damage in his latest temper tantrum about East Potomac Park.
特朗普周一凌晨在 Truth Social 上写道：“这是给法官研究的‘垃圾岛’照片。这只是一小块区域，比有些地方还好！”他指的是球场中心一片严重杂草丛生的区域，国家公园管理局已经开始在那里砍伐数十棵树。
“Here are pictures of Trash Island for the Judge to study. This is just a small area, and better than some!”Trump wrote on Truth Social overnight Monday, referring to a heavily overgrown area at the center of the course where the National Parks Service had already begun to fell dozens of trees.
总统分享了废弃木托盘、建筑设备、大型垃圾箱和树木清理卡车的照片。目前尚不清楚这些废料是否来自总统将这座公共公园改建为高端专属高尔夫球场的停滞计划。
The president shared photographs of abandoned wooden pallets construction equipment large bins and trucks for tree removal. It wasn’t immediately clear whether the debris was from the president’s stalled efforts to transform the public park into a high-end, exclusive golf course.
他还分享了球场和滨水区受损铁栅栏的图片。“海堤坍塌——对健康非常危险！”特朗普写道，并附上了一张栅栏几乎被波托马克河吞没的照片。
He also shared images of damaged iron fences along the course and waterfront. “Collapsing Sea Wall—Very dangerous to one’s health!”Trump including a photograph of a fence that had been nearly swallowed by the Potomac.
上周，地区法官安娜·雷耶斯禁止政府在东波托马克高尔夫球场砍伐数百棵树，并严厉斥责特朗普政府律师声称砍树不属于总统翻新计划的一部分。司法部要求她回避，声称她的爆发证明她对政府有偏见。法官拒绝了，导致特朗普在社交媒体上发泄不满。
Last week, District Judge Ana Reyes blocked the government from felling hundreds of trees at East Potomac Golf Links, and tore into the Trump administration lawyer for claiming that tree removal is not part of the president’s renovation plans. The Department of Justice demanded that she step down, claiming that her outburst proved she was biased against the government. The judge refused, sending Trump spiraling on social media.
特朗普的帖子可能已经让他陷入麻烦。周一在听证会上，对特朗普联邦接管球场提起法律挑战的保护团体，将总统自己的 Truth Social 帖子作为证据提交，证明政府计划“立即！”推进翻新。联邦调查局曾在调查南卡罗来纳州共和党参议员林赛·格雷厄姆和民主党众议员吉姆·克莱伯恩涉嫌的一起大规模权钱交易贿赂丑闻，涉及一家夏威夷海军国防公司。随后，在特朗普总统重返白宫后，联邦调查局撤换了负责该案件的团队。
Trump’s posting may have already landed him in trouble. At a hearing Monday, the preservation group mounting the legal challenge against Trump’s federal takeover of the course introduced the president’s own Truth Social post as evidence that the government plans to proceed with renovations “IMMEDIATELY!”The FBI was investigating South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and Democratic Representative Jim Clyburn for a massive pay-to-play bribery scandal involving a Hawaiian naval defense firm. Then the FBI eliminated the team working on the case upon President Trump’s return to office.
报道详述了南卡罗来纳州政客与纳瓦泰克（Navatek）高管（包括首席执行官高马丁，Martin Kao，音译）的交往。高马丁向联邦调查局（FBI）供称，他用竞选捐款和礼物换取了数百万美元的海军合同。
details the dealings of the South Carolina politicians with Navatek executives, including CEO Martin Kao, who told the FBI that he was exchanging campaign donations and gifts for millions of dollars in naval contracts.
据高马丁称，2020年3月，已故参议员格雷厄姆在华盛顿特区的查理·帕尔默牛排馆（Charlie Palmer Steak）与纳瓦泰克游说人会面，达成协议：以10万美元竞选捐款为交换，给予纳瓦泰克一份1000万美元的政府合同，这还不包括他仅为这次会面就收取的4万美元。
In March 2020, the late Senator Graham met with Navatek lobbyists at Charlie Palmer Steak in Washington, D.C, and made a deal to give a $10 million government contract to Navatek in exchange for $100,000 in campaign donations, on top of the $40,000 he charged just for the meeting, according to Kao.
“这就是我想要的数目，也是我要给你的数目，”格雷厄姆据称对高马丁说道。
“This is how much I want, and how much I am going to give you,” Graham allegedly told Kao.
克莱伯恩是众议院资历最深的民主党领袖之一，也曾与纳瓦泰克高层会面——并要求他们匹配格雷厄姆的10万美元竞选捐款，以换取政治恩惠。同为南卡罗来纳州的联邦众议员乔·威尔逊（Joe Wilson），一名共和党人，据称也与纳瓦泰克进行过金钱换合同的交易。
Clyburn, one of the highest-ranking Democrats in the House, also met with Navatek leaders—and asked them to match Graham’s campaign gift of $100,000 in exchange for political favors. Fellow South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson, a Republican, also allegedly made cash-for-contract dealings with Navatek.
高马丁最终于2020年9月因竞选资金违规被捕，并向联邦特工供认，纳瓦泰克的整个商业模式完全依赖于贿赂公职人员以换取政府合同。办案特工告诉上级，他们的调查最终可能涉及相关议员，但随后他们被解雇，因为司法部对先前调查过特朗普的公共腐败调查小组进行报复。
Kao was eventually arrested for campaign finance violations in September 2020 and confessed to federal agents that Navatek’s entire business model relied solely on bribing public officials in exchange for government contracts. The agents working on the case told their superiors their investigation could eventually include the lawmakers involved, but they were fired as the Department of Justice took revenge on the public corruption team, which previously investigated Trump.
这篇来自《ProPublica》（普罗帕布利卡）的报道是其对缅因州共和党参议员苏珊·柯林斯（Susan Collins）调查的延续。柯林斯同样收受了纳瓦泰克数十万美元，以换取数千万美元的联邦国防合同。2019年，柯林斯与高马丁在华盛顿特区一家餐厅会面后，其政治行动委员会（PAC）随即收到了高马丁给予的15万美元；两个月后，高马丁通知纳瓦泰克，柯林斯承诺将给予其3200万美元的海军合同。
This reporting from ProPublica is a continuation of its investigation into Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins who also received hundreds of thousands of dollars from Navatek in exchange for tens of millions of dollars in federal defense contracts. Collins’s PAC received $150,000 from Kao right after their own D.C. restaurant meeting in 2019, and two months later, Kao informed Navatek that Collins committed to giving it $32 million in naval contracts.
这本可能成为现代史上最大的政治腐败丑闻之一，是对游说者在华盛顿究竟拥有多大影响力、以及我们那些利己的政客多么渴望从他们那里收钱的实锤揭露。联邦调查局（FBI）清楚这一点。但特朗普2025年重返白宫后，该案立即被终结。这一举措无意中阻止了一场跨党派的巨型腐败丑闻彻底曝光。在高某仍被关押的同时，FBI曾调查的那些权势参议员却无人面临任何追责——多亏了特朗普。调查组甚至无法立新案。
This had the potential to be one of the biggest political corruption scandals of the modern era, a tangible exposé of just how much influence lobbyists actually have in Washington and how eager our self-interested politicians are to take money from them. And the FBI knew that. But as soon as Trump returned to office in 2025, the case was killed. This move inadvertently prevented a bipartisan whale of a corruption scandal from fully coming to light. And while Kao remains in jail, none of the powerful senators the FBI was investigating have faced any kind of repercussions—thanks to Trump. The team can’t even file a new case.
“你得佩服特朗普：他坚持一个一贯立场，无论共和党还是民主党，行贿都不是罪，”记者马修·查普曼写道，“他会捏造各种莫须有的罪名打击政敌。但他绝不会追究行贿，哪怕是他的敌人干的。”高某曾向数十位两党政客捐款，包括乔·拜登、迪克·德宾、珍妮·沙欣和塔尔西·加巴德。克莱伯恩、格雷厄姆和威尔逊的办公室均否认高某提出的权钱交易指控。
“You gotta hand it to Trump: he holds the consistent position that, Republican OR Democrat, bribery is not a crime,” journalist Matthew Chapman wrote on“He’ll cook up any number of bogus charges to take down his political enemies. But he’ll never go after bribery, even if it’s his enemies doing it.”Kao has made political donations to dozens of politicians from both parties, including Joe Biden, Dick Durbin, Jeanne Shaheen, and Tulsi Gabbard. Clyburn, Graham, and Wilson’s offices all deny Kao’s quid pro quo allegations.