MS NOW 的迈克尔·斯蒂尔抨击唐纳德·特朗普在中期选举前的“最后关头举动”，当时司法部起诉阿拉斯加州，要求在共和党现任参议员落败的情况下，推迟该州参议院选举结果的认证。
MS NOW’s Michael Steele slammed Donald Trump’s“11th-hour move” ahead of the midterm election, as the Department of Justice sued Alaska seeking to delay certification of the state’s Senate election in the event the Republican incumbent loses.
周四，该部门请求联邦法院阻止认证结果，条件是如果共和党参议员丹·沙利文落败的票数少于另一位候选人丹尼尔·J·沙利文获得的票数。
On Thursday, the department asked a federal court to block certification of the results if Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses by fewer votes than another candidate, Daniel J. Sullivan, receives.
阿拉斯加法院已允许这位另一位沙利文留在选票上。司法部辩称，选民可能会混淆这两位候选人，而这种混淆可能会影响预计将非常胶着的竞选结果，民主党提名人玛丽·佩尔托拉是对手。
Alaska courts have allowed the other Sullivan to remain on the ballot. The Justice Department is arguing that voters could confuse the two candidates, and that such confusion could potentially affect the outcome of what is expected to be a close race against Democratic nominee Mary Peltola.
“这个政府采取的每一步，他们对美国人民撒的所有谎言，关于他们确保选举公平自由的承诺，全都导向了这一点，”斯蒂尔周五表示，就在该诉讼公开后不久。
“Every step this administration is taking, all the lies that they have told the American people about their sense of making sure elections are fair and free, have just all led to this,” Steele said Friday, shortly after the lawsuit became public.
《The Weeknight》节目联合主持人称司法部长托德·布兰奇是“最差劲中的最差劲”，并表示司法部在为总统效力。斯蒂尔辩称，宪法将选举管理权留给了各州，“联邦政府和司法部在这里绝对没有任何角色。”特朗普此前曾批评阿拉斯加的“疯狂投票制度”。该州采用排序选择制，选民按偏好顺序列出候选人。如果无人获得多数第一选择票，得票最少的候选人将被淘汰，其选票转给选民的下一选择，直到有候选人获胜。
“The Weeknight”co-host called Attorney General Todd Blanche“the worst of the worst” and said the Justice Department was doing the president’s bidding. Steele argued that the Constitution leaves election administration to the states and that “the federal government and the Department of Justice have absolutely zero role here.”Trump has previously criticized Alaska’s “crazy voting system.”The state uses a ranked-choice system, in which voters list their candidates in order of preference. If no one wins a majority of first-choice votes, the last-place candidate is eliminated and those votes go to voters’ next choices until one candidate wins.
斯蒂尔表示，该诉讼显示共和党“很害怕”，因为他们“毫无作为，无法给选民一个投票支持他们的理由”。“所以现在，在最后关头，他们要去试图操纵一个结果，而这个结果早已由开始提前投票、已经参与其中的选民预示出来了，”他补充道。
Steele said the lawsuit shows that Republicans are “afraid” because they have “done jack to give the voters a reason to vote for them.”“So now, in the 11th hour, they’re going to go and try to manipulate an outcome that’s already foretold by the voters who started early voting, who are already in the game,” he added.
迈克尔·斯蒂尔预测，选民们会看穿共和党的种种企图；在选举日那天，共和党将会自食其果。他说：“他们一直在蓄意破坏公众对现有政治体系的信任，而这种破坏最终会反过来伤害他们自己——因为我们根本不信任他们，也不相信他们说的话。我们知道他们一直在对我们撒谎。现在，他们必须为自己种下的恶果买单。”
Steele predicted that voters would see through Republican efforts and that the party would get “their you-know-what’s handed to them” on Election Day“They have sown and built mistrust in the system that’s coming back to bite them, because we do not trust them. We do not trust their word. We know you’re lying to us,” he said.
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