2026年中期选举呈现出深刻的个人化色彩，竞选团队将他人的家庭悲剧作为政治弹药——有时甚至无视当事家庭的反对。
2026 midterms have taken a deeply personal turn as campaigns use other people's family tragedies as political ammunition — sometimes over the objections of the families themselves.
为何重要：一些攻击性广告展示遇害儿童的照片和痛苦的911报警录音，迫使悲痛的家庭重温他们最黑暗的时刻。
Why it matters: Some attack ads feature photographs of murdered children and anguished 911 calls, forcing grieving families to relive their worst moments.
佐治亚州州长竞选：共和党州长提名人里克·杰克逊使用遇害的8岁女孩塞科里亚·特纳的照片及其母亲痛苦的911报警录音，攻击民主党对手、亚特兰大前市长基莎·兰斯·博特姆斯。
Georgia governor race: Republican gubernatorial nominee Rick Jackson used images of murdered 8-year-old Secoriea Turner and her mother's anguished 911 call to attack Democratic rival Keisha Lance Bottoms, Atlanta's former mayor.
- 特纳家人要求撤下广告，指责竞选团队未经许可利用他们的悲痛。杰克逊表示将继续播放这些广告。
• Turner's family demanded the ads come down, accusing the campaign of exploiting their grief without permission. Jackson said he would keep airing them.
俄亥俄州共和党州长提名人维韦克·拉马斯瓦米的竞选团队斥资400万美元投放广告，邀请其民主党对手艾米·阿克顿的生母出镜。
Ohio Republican gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign is spending $4 million on an ad featuring the estranged mother of his Democratic opponent, Amy Acton.
- 广告中，唐娜·阿瑟称女儿为骗子，否认其童年流浪经历。
• In the ad, Donna Arthur calls her daughter a liar and disputes her account of childhood homelessness.
- 阿克顿称已故继父——曾与其母亲结婚至去世——在她童年时期性虐待她，她已与母亲断绝往来数十年。阿克顿的弟弟证实了她的说法，法庭记录和当时的新闻报道支持关键细节。
• Acton says her late stepfather — who was married to her mother until his death — sexually abused her as a child, and she hasn't spoken to her mother in decades. Acton's brother corroborated her account, while court records and contemporary news reports support key details.
- 特朗普总统敦促拉马斯瓦米继续播放针对阿克顿的攻击广告，尽管部分共和党同僚提出异议。
• President Trump urged Ramaswamy to keep running his attack on Acton, despite objections from some fellow Republicans.
深度解读：拉马斯瓦米竞选团队称该广告在可说服选民中测试效果良好，尽管批评者警告可能适得其反。
Between the lines: Ramaswamy's campaign said the ad tested well with persuadable voters even as critics warned it could backfire.
俄亥俄州参议院竞选：一则针对前民主党参议员谢罗德·布朗的共和党攻击广告，展示一对夫妇及其1岁儿子在高速公路车祸中遇难的画面，将责任归咎于布朗的移民政策。
Ohio Senate race: A Republican attack ad against former Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown featured images of a couple and their 1-year-old son killed in a highway crash to blame Brown's immigration policies.
- 遇难者家属要求撤下广告，称无人征求过使用其亲属影像或悲剧的许可。
• The victims' family demanded its removal, saying nobody sought permission to use their relatives' images or tragedy.
北卡罗来纳州参议院竞选：一个共和党超级政治行动委员会在一则攻击广告中出现了一位悲痛的父亲，将他23岁儿子的遇害与前民主党州长罗伊·库珀的监狱政策联系在一起。
North Carolina Senate race: A Republican super PAC featured a grieving father in an attack ad linking the murder of his 23-year-old son to former Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's prison policies.
- 这位父亲表示，他对广告的目的感到被欺骗。该组织反驳了他的说法，而事实核查人员发现，凶手与库珀的囚犯释放协议没有关联。
• The father said he felt deceived about the ad's purpose. The group disputes his account, while fact-checkers found no connection between the killer and Cooper's prisoner-release agreement. Yes, but:
但是：一些幸存者自愿分享他们的创伤，以挑战政客的决定。
Some survivors willingly share their trauma to challenge politicians' decisions.
- 在内布拉斯加州，乔迪·斯诺格伦自愿出现在一则攻击广告中，抨击共和党参议员皮特·里基茨在2022年投票赦免约翰·阿里亚斯，后者曾承认强奸她。
• In Nebraska, Jody Snogren voluntarily appeared in an ad attacking Republican Sen. Pete Ricketts for his 2022 vote to pardon John Arias, who pleaded guilty to raping her.
- 斯诺格伦告诉《第十九修正案》新闻网，她选择讲述自己的故事是为了告知选民，并对此没有遗憾。
• Snogren told The 19th she chose to tell her story to inform voters and had no regrets.
- 里基茨对斯诺格伦表示同情，但为赦免决定进行了辩护，指出阿里亚斯已服完整个刑期，且赦免发生在犯罪数十年后。
• Ricketts expressed sympathy for Snogren but defended the pardon, noting Arias had served his full sentence and the pardon came decades after the crime.