堪萨斯州参议员选情胶着，马歇尔与汉密尔顿将登辩论台堪萨斯州参议员选举的主要候选人将于周三晚间在辩论台上正面交锋，此时距离选举日已不足两周。
Marshall, Hamilton set to take debate stage in tight Kansas Senate race The top candidates in the Kansas Senate race will face off on the debate stage on Wednesday evening with less than two weeks until Election Day.
现任参议员罗杰·马歇尔（共和党）正在抵御民主党提名人亚当·汉密尔顿的挑战，这场选战已变得日益激烈。
Incumbent Sen. Roger Marshall (R) is fending off a challenge from Democratic nominee Adam Hamilton in a race that has grown increasingly competitive.
在由《国会山报》母公司奈克斯特媒体集团主办的这场活动中，两人将就经济增长、基础设施和医疗保健等问题接受提问。辩论将于晚上7点在密苏里州堪萨斯城开始，持续一小时。
The pair will face questions about issues like economic growth, infrastructure and healthcare during the event hosted by Nexstar Media Group, The Hill’s parent company. The debate will kick off at 7 p.m. in Kansas City, Mo. and run for one hour.
近几周来，选情趋于紧绷，引发共和党人的担忧，他们担心汉密尔顿——一位知名牧师和温和派民主党人——可能成功将马歇尔赶下参议员席位。
The race has tightened in recent weeks, eliciting concern among Republicans that Hamilton, a prominent pastor and moderate Democrat, could be successful in his effort to oust Marshall from his Senate seat.
随着这名民主党人在民调中支持率上升，萨巴托的水晶球和《库克政治报告》等选举预测机构已将这场选战调整为“胜负难料”。《纽约时报》上月底进行的一项调查显示，马歇尔与汉密尔顿势均力敌，而在其他近期民调中，两位候选人各自在误差范围内保持微弱领先。
Election handicappers, like Sabato’s Crystal Ball and The Cook Political Report, have shifted the race to a “toss up” amid the Democrat’s rise in the polls. Marshall and Hamilton were tied up in a New York Times survey conducted at the end of last month, with each candidate displaying narrow leads within the margin of error in other recent polls.
在9月12日于堪萨斯州博览会由当地媒体KWCH 12新闻台主办的一场辩论中，两位候选人就特朗普政府的关税以及对伊朗的军事行动展开了交锋。
During a Sept. 12 debate at the Kansas State Fair hosted by local outlet KWCH 12 News, the two candidates sparred over the Trump administration’s tariffs and military operations against Iran.
这位共和党现任参议员在回答有关伊朗战争的问题时遭到人群的嘲笑，而在他回答另一个关于他当年在堪萨斯州乡村社区行医时如何处理未付医疗账单的问题时，一群抗议者高喊“可耻”。
The Republican incumbent faced jeers from the crowd during his answer to a question about the Iran war and a group of protesters shouted “shame on you” during his response to another question about how he handled unpaid medical bills when he was a doctor in a rural Kansas community.
马歇尔攻击汉密尔顿是“巨型教会牧师”，并援引其布道内容，声称这位民主党候选人在性别与性取向、气候变化以及“黑人的命也是命”运动等问题上“觉醒”。
Marshall has attacked Hamilton as a “megachurch pastor” and pointed to his sermons to claim that the Democratic candidate is “woke” on issues like gender and sexuality, climate change and the Black Lives Matter movement.
堪萨斯州历史上在联邦参议员和总统选举中一直支持共和党候选人。该州选民偶尔会选出温和派民主党人担任州长。
Kansas has historically elected Republican candidates to the U.S. Senate and White House. State voters have occasionally elected moderate Democrats to the governor’s office.
2024年，特朗普总统以16个百分点的优势赢得了“向日葵州”，但随着全国范围内对其政府关税政策以及伊朗战争导致成本上升的不满情绪高涨，他在该州的支持率出现动摇。
In 2024, President Trump won the Sunflower State by 16 points, but he has seen his approval ratings in the state waver amid rising nationwide discontent with his administration’s tariffs and rising costs amid the Iran war.
周一晚上，特朗普在堪萨斯州威奇托举行集会为马歇尔助选，他在会上使用了一条反犹太主义侮辱性词汇，为这位共和党现任议员辩护，回应有关他起诉数百名患者追讨未付医疗账单的报道。
Trump stumped for Marshall on Monday evening at a rally in Wichita, Kansas, in which he used an antisemitic slur to defend the Republican incumbent for reports that he sued hundreds of his patients for unpaid medical bills.
“法律强制要求他强烈追讨患者欠款。你不能不这么做，法律规定你必须追讨这些人，”总统说道，随后使用一条侮辱性词汇来形容他对相关报道刻画该候选人方式的感受。
“He was mandated by law to request, strongly, money owed from patients. You’re not allowed not to do it, you have to by law go after those people,” the president said, before using a slur to describe how he felt the reporting characterized the candidate.
汉密尔顿周一表示，他“很高兴”总统为他的对手助选，他对CNN的杰克·塔珀说，他认为特朗普前往堪萨斯州竞选是一种“极大的赞誉”。
Hamilton said on Monday he was “glad” the president was campaigning for his opponent, telling CNN’s Jake Tapper he viewed Trump’s travel to Kansas as a “big compliment.”
“我把这视为共和党认为他们需要派遣全国最有权势的人来试图挽救罗杰·马歇尔的信号，我认为这只会损害他，”汉密尔顿补充道，“所以我为他来这里而感到高兴。”
“I took it as a statement that the Republican Party felt they needed to send the most powerful man in the country to try to save Roger Marshall, and I think it’s only going to hurt him,” Hamilton said, adding, “So I’m glad he’s here.”