距离选举日不足两周，大多数州级辩论已告一段落。民主党试图将共和党对手逼入死角，质问其对特朗普总统的忠诚度；共和党则试图在伊朗战争和数据中心等议题上划出微妙立场。
With less than two weeks until Election Day, most statewide debates have come and gone. Democrats tried to paint their Republican opponents into corners over loyalty to President Donald Trump, and Republicans tried to stake out nuanced positions on the Iran war and data centers.
以下是我们从二十多场州级候选人辩论——以及那些未举行的辩论——中得出的结论。
Here’s what we learned from the more than two dozen statewide candidate debates that occurred — and from those that didn’t.
共和党在不受欢迎的特朗普问题上走钢丝 在一场又一场辩论中，民主党试图将对手与这位不受欢迎的总统捆绑在一起。共和党人并不总是愿意让他们得逞。
Republicans walk a fine line with an unpopular Trump In debate after debate, Democrats tried to tie their opponents to the unpopular president. Republicans weren’t always willing to let them.
几位候选人——尤其是在蓝州的候选人——愿意与总统划清界限。在新罕布什尔州，共和党前参议员约翰·苏努努表示，他“从未见过特朗普总统”，并强调自己“从未犹豫在党或总统犯错时站出来反对”，具体批评了特朗普在贸易、伊朗和乌克兰问题上的政策。在明尼苏达州，共和党参议员提名人米歇尔·塔福亚表示，她不同意特朗普的关税政策和移民执法，当被问及是否愿与特朗普同台亮相时，她避而不答。“我是在同明尼苏达人对话。他们的背书才是我唯一在乎的，”她说。
Several candidates — especially in blue states — were willing to break with the president. In New Hampshire, GOP former Sen. John Sununu said he’s “never met President Trump” and emphasized he’s “never hesitated to stand up to my party or the president when they're wrong,” specifically criticizing Trump’s policies on trade, Iran and Ukraine. In Minnesota, Republican Senate nominee Michelle Tafoya said she disagreed with Trump’s tariff policy and immigration enforcement, and when asked if she would appear onstage with Trump, she demurred. “I am talking to Minnesotans. Theirs is the only endorsement that I care about,” she said.
在缅因州，共和党参议员苏珊·柯林斯强调，她今年已投了100多次反对总统的票，并批评了他在伊朗问题上的做法。共和党州长提名人、曾在伊拉克和阿富汗战争期间担任小布什总统国务院官员的鲍比·查尔斯表示，他不同意特朗普在伊朗的“长期介入”，因为“我知道陷在一个地方意味着什么。”
In Maine, GOP Sen. Susan Collins emphasized that she has voted against the president more than 100 times this year, and criticized his approach on Iran. Bobby Charles, the GOP nominee for governor and a former official in President George W. Bush’s State Department during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, said he disagreed with Trump’s “extended engagement” in Iran because “I know what it means to get stuck in a place.”
一些共和党人对对手试图将他们与总统捆绑感到沮丧。“他想把这事搞成关于唐纳德·特朗普的事，”前众议员迈克·罗杰斯（共和党-密歇根州）说。“宾果游戏该是：他在过去不管多长时间、30分钟里给出的任何回答中，能塞进多少个‘特朗普’这个词？这太荒谬了。”但在一些更红的州，候选人更愿意紧贴总统——因为他们认识到，赢得他的基本盘支持对获胜至关重要。
Some Republicans became frustrated by their opponents' efforts to tie them to the president. “He wants to make this about Donald Trump,” said former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) “The bingo game ought to be, how many times can he put the word ‘Trump’ in any answer that he has given in the last, whatever, 30 minutes? It’s ridiculous.”But in some redder states, candidates were more willing to hug the president — recognizing support from his base will be critical to win.
“我们需要特朗普的选民出来投票，”参议员罗杰·马歇尔（共和党-堪萨斯州）周三在一场辩论中说。“就像跟我老婆一样，我可以跟她意见不合。现在，我老婆永远是对的，而特朗普总统并不总是对的。但我确实认为，我有这样一种关系，可以拿起电话跟他讨论他正在考虑的事情的利弊，这很棒。”
“We need the Trump voters to come out,” Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) said in a debate Wednesday. “Just like with my wife, I can disagree with her. Now, my wife is always right, and President Trump is not always right. But I do think that it's great that I have a relationship that I can pick up the phone and discuss with him the pros and cons of what he's contemplating.”It’s the economy, stupid Democrats hammered Republicans on affordability issues, blaming Trump’s tariff policy and Iran for spiking prices. In response, a few conceded some Trump policies were hurting them — while others tried to blame the last president.
“关键是经济，蠢货” 民主党人猛攻共和党的负担能力问题，将物价飙升归咎于特朗普的关税政策和伊朗局势。作为回应，少数共和党人承认一些特朗普政策正在伤害他们——而其他人则试图怪罪上一任总统。
“That Bidenomics, that Green New Deal that my opponent voted for, that’s where all this inflation came from,” said Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.) in a Senate debate in early October.
“那‘拜登经济学’，我对手投赞成票的那个‘绿色新政’，所有通胀都是从那来的，”众议员迈克·柯林斯（共和党-佐治亚州）在10月初的一场参议院辩论中说。
The other Collins, Susan, went the opposite way in blue-leaning Maine. “The bottom line is Troy and I both would have voted against the Canadian tariffs,” she said in an October 13 debate, after saying the Iran war was “not well thought out.”Rep. Ashley Hinson, the GOP nominee for Senate in Iowa, said she would pause the gasoline tax before acknowledging the effect of the war: "I trust in our U.S. military, the greatest fighting force in the world, to bring this to a close as quickly as possible, because I know people are being squeezed,” she said.
另一位柯林斯——苏珊·柯林斯——在倾向民主党的缅因州则走向了相反方向。“底线是，特洛伊和我都会投反对加拿大关税的票，”她在10月13日的辩论中说，此前她曾表示伊朗战争“考虑不周”。爱荷华州共和党参议员提名人、联邦众议员阿什利·辛森表示，她将暂停征收汽油税，随后承认了战争的影响：“我相信我们的美军，这支世界上最强大的战斗力量，能尽快结束这场战争，因为我知道人们正承受着压力，”她说。民主党人对特朗普政策的批评基本异口同声。
Democrats largely sang the same tune on Trump’s policies.
“这些关税正在摧毁我们的州，我们将废除这些关税，”参议员乔恩·奥索夫（民主党-佐治亚州）说。
“These tariffs are crushing our state, and we'll repeal those tariffs,” said Sen. John Ossoff (D-Ga.).
“关税和伊朗战争对爱荷华州的伤害比任何其他州都大，”爱荷华州众议员乔什·图雷克（民主党-爱荷华州）说。
“The tariffs and the war in Iran has hurt Iowa more than any other state,” said state Rep. Josh Turek (D-Iowa).
“如果你欣赏创纪录的柴油价格……那我建议你投票给罗杰·马歇尔，”堪萨斯州民主党参议员提名人亚当·汉密尔顿说。“如果你想要改变，那我希望你能投票给我。”
“If you appreciate having record diesel fuel prices … then I'd say vote for Roger Marshall,” said Adam Hamilton, the Democratic nominee running for Senate in Kansas. “If you want change, then I'd like to ask you to vote for me.”Everyone hates data centers Republicans and Democrats showed a remarkable similarity in their distaste for data centers even as their specific policy prescriptions diverged — a sign of the issue’s rapid ascent as a bipartisan bogeyman, even as Trump reiterates his support for them.
人人都讨厌数据中心 共和党人和民主党人对数据中心表现出了惊人的相似厌恶，尽管他们的具体政策主张有所不同——这表明该问题已迅速上升为一个两党共同的“妖魔”，即使特朗普重申对其表示支持。
Candidates from both parties called for local control. “Look, if you don't want a data center, I will stand up and defend it and make sure you don't get it,” said Rick Jackson, a Republican billionaire businessman running for Georgia governor. “Local communities know best,” said Hinson, the Iowa Republican.
两党候选人都呼吁地方控制权。“听着，如果你不想要数据中心，我会站出来捍卫并确保你不会得到它，”竞选佐治亚州州长的共和党亿万富翁商人里克·杰克逊说。“地方社区最清楚，”爱荷华州共和党人辛森说。
In Maine, both Senate candidates said guardrails should be installed to prevent the data centers from raising utility rates for local residents. In Iowa, both gubernatorial candidates — Democrat Rob Sand and Republican Zach Lahn — supported ending tax breaks for data center developers. In New Hampshire, both Senate candidates agreed with GOP Gov. Kelly Ayotte’s push for a statewide moratorium.
在缅因州，两位参议院候选人均表示，应设置护栏以防止数据中心推高当地居民的公用事业费率。在爱荷华州，两位州长候选人——民主党人罗布·桑德和共和党人扎克·拉恩——均支持终止对数据中心开发商的税收减免。在新罕布什尔州，两位参议院候选人均赞同共和党州长凯利·阿约特推动的全州范围暂停令。
“At the end of the day, it's up to our governor, our local leaders, to make decisions about any big infrastructure, transmission, power plants, new factories, and data centers should be treated just the same,” Sununu said.
“归根结底，是否批准任何大型基础设施、输电、发电厂、新工厂，以及数据中心，应一视同仁，由我们的州长、地方领导人决定，”苏努努说。
Gaffe gamechangers Debates can do candidates more harm than good, and some candidates had some cringey moments.
失言改变局势 辩论往往弊大于利，部分候选人出现了令人尴尬的时刻。
In Alaska, Democratic former Rep. Mary Peltola appeared to be reading from a notecard throughout a recent debate, giving her opponent, GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan, a chance to pounce. "We weren't supposed to get these questions beforehand, were we?" he asked the moderator.
在阿拉斯加，民主党前众议员玛丽·佩尔托拉在最近一场辩论中似乎全程照着提词卡念，给对手、共和党参议员丹·沙利文抓住了机会。“我们不是不该提前拿到这些问题吗？”他问主持人。“你不能靠提词卡混过参议院，”沙利文随后在社交媒体上写道。
“You can’t cue-card your way through the Senate,” Sullivan later wrote on social media.
沙利文自己几周前也出过状况：在快问快答环节偷看佩尔托拉的答案，引得观众哄堂大笑。“乐意效劳，丹，”佩尔托拉在社交媒体上回应。
Sullivan had his own moment a few weeks earlier when he peeked at Peltola’s answer during a lightning-round question, prompting laughter from the audience. “Happy to help, Dan,” Peltola wrote on social media.
在堪萨斯州，马歇尔在州博览会举行的辩论中谈到自己在堪萨斯州的住所和佛罗里达州的房子时，遭到观众高呼“你不住在这儿”。
In Kansas, Marshall faced loud chats of “you don’t live here” during a debate at the state fair, while speaking about his residence in Kansas and his home in Florida.
在缅因州，一名抗议者打断辩论后，柯林斯声称示威者“显然是特罗伊的支持者”，杰克逊回应说柯林斯应该“闭嘴”。“哦，闭嘴，”杰克逊说，“我根本不认识那小子。”柯林斯抓住这个时刻，试图将杰克逊描绘成厌女的暴躁分子；杰克逊后来表示不后悔自己的冲动发言。
In Maine, Jackson said Collins should “shut up” after a protester interrupted the debate and Collins claimed the demonstrator was “obviously one of Troy's supporters." "Oh, shut up,” Jackson said. “I don't even know that kid." Collins has pounced on the moment to try to paint Jackson as a sexist hothead; Jackson later said he did not regret his outburst.
在爱荷华州，针对如何确保社会保障基金偿付能力的问题，辛森抨击了年轻人的储蓄习惯。“我们也需要谈谈千禧一代存钱的问题，”她说。“千禧一代目前是全国最不爱存钱的群体，存款也最少。”未发生的辩论对失言的担忧可能让选民失去了看到候选人同台辩论的机会，竞选辩论这一长期的政治传统在本周期再度受挫。
In Iowa, Hinson responded to a question about ensuring the solvency of Social Security by slamming young people’s saving habits. “We also need to be talking about millennials saving money,” she said. “Millennials are the worst group of savers in the country right now and have the least amount of savings.”The debates that didn’t happen Fear of gaffes may have cost voters a chance to see their candidates square off, as the longstanding political tradition of campaign debates took another hit this cycle.
在全国各地的参议院关键战场州，两党提名人均直接拒绝与对手同台，或设法回避辩论。
In Senate battlegrounds across the country, nominees in both parties outright refused to join their opponents onstage or carefully ducked debates.
在得克萨斯州，检察长肯·帕克斯顿一再拒绝辩论邀请（包括福克斯新闻的邀请），即使在特朗普敦促他登台后也是如此。在俄亥俄州，参议院候选人至今仍未就辩论达成协议。在北卡罗来纳州，主要政党的参议院候选人近30年来首次没有安排辩论。
In Texas, Attorney General Ken Paxton rebuffed invitation after invitation (including one from Fox News), even after Trump urged him to get onstage. In Ohio, the Senate candidates still haven’t reached an agreement to debate. In North Carolina, there is no debate scheduled between the major-party Senate candidates for the first time in nearly 30 years.
在谁愿辩论、谁不愿辩论的问题上，似乎不存在党派分歧。亚利桑那州民主党籍州长凯蒂·霍布斯和俄亥俄州民主党提名人艾米·阿克顿拒绝与对手辩论。得克萨斯州共和党籍州长格雷格·阿博特和阿拉巴马州共和党参议员汤米·图伯维尔也拒绝了辩论邀请。
There doesn’t seem to be a partisan division over who will and won’t debate. Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs and Ohio Democratic nominee Amy Acton refused to debate their opponents. So did GOP Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas and Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, who have rebuffed invitations to debate.
“我们之间差异太大了，我是说，没必要上台去争论观点分歧，”图伯维尔8月对记者表示。他正在竞选阿拉巴马州州长，对手是民主党籍前参议员道格·琼斯。
“There’s so much difference between us, I mean, there’s no reason to get up there and argue about differences of opinion,” Tuberville, running for Alabama governor against Democratic former Sen. Doug Jones, told reporters in August.
安德鲁·霍华德、杰森·比弗曼、丽莎·卡欣斯基、亚伦·佩利什、亚历克·埃尔南德斯、艾琳·多尔蒂和杰西卡·派珀参与了报道。
Andrew Howard, Jason Beeferman, Lisa Kashinsky, Aaron Pellish, Alec Hernandez, Erin Doherty and Jessica Piper contributed reporting.