共和党众议员马克·阿莫迪说，自18岁以来，他在每次选举中都投给共和党。直到现在。
Republican Rep. Mark Amodei says he’s voted Republican in every election since he was 18. Until now.
阿莫迪将于下个月退休，他代表内华达州第二国会选区。戴维·弗利波是特朗普支持的共和党提名人，将接替他的席位。
Amodei, who is retiring next month, represents Nevada’s second congressional district. David Flippo is the Trump-backed Republican nominee to replace him.
但随着弗利波的竞选财务问题引发质疑，以及有人指控弗利波及其竞选团队虚假陈述其军旅记录，阿莫迪说他没有投票给弗利波，这是他人生中第一次没有投票给共和党。
But with questions swirling about Flippo’s campaign finances and allegations that Flippo and his campaign misrepresented his military record, Amodei says he didn’t vote for Flippo, the first time in his life he didn’t vote Republican.
他本周邀请记者诺亚·拉纳德和制片人萨姆·范派克伦到他位于内华达州的家中，在中期选举前几天解释原因。
He invited reporter Noah Lanard and producer Sam Van Pykeren to his Nevada home this week, days ahead of the midterm elections, to explain why.
“我不想事后坐在这里说，‘好吧，我曾是个忠诚的队员，’”阿莫迪谈到没有投票给自己党派的提名人时说。“你知道事后谁会在乎那个吗？没人。”阿莫迪说，他改为投票给独立候选人林恩·查普曼。
“I don’t want to sit here after the fact and go, ‘well, I was a loyal troop,'” Amodei said of not voting for a nominee from his own party. “You know who will care about that after the fact? Nobody.”Instead, Amodei said, he voted for Lynn Chapman, an independent candidate.
内华达州第二国会选区自上世纪80年代设立以来只有过四位众议员——他们全都是共和党人。但下周这种情况可能会改变。正如诺亚此前报道的：弗利波在一场异常激烈的竞选中与民主党人特蕾莎·贝尼特斯-汤普森势均力敌，该选区范围广阔，涵盖里诺。弗利波的极右翼参选立场以及他作为里诺新迁入居民的身份，使内华达州共和党人产生分裂。
Nevada’s second congressional district has only had four representatives since its creation in the ’80s—and they’ve all been Republicans. But that could change next week. As Noah previously reported: Flippo is locked in an unusually competitive race against Democrat Teresa Benitez-Thompson in a sprawling district encompassing Reno. Flippo’s hard-right candidacy and status as a recent transplant to Reno have divided Nevada Republicans.
马克·阿莫迪即将从弗利波希望赢得的席位退休，他在一篇关于铜星勋章说法的文章中称弗利波是“骗子”，并拒绝在初选和大选中支持他。由于其脆弱性，民主党国会竞选委员会最近将这个深红选区加入其“红转蓝”计划，将其列为可能翻转的机会。
Mark Amodei, who is retiring from the seat Flippo hopes to win, called him a “fraud” in an article about the Bronze Star claims and refused to back him in both the primary and general election. Due to his vulnerabilities, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee recently added this deep red district to its “Red to Blue” program, identifying it as a possible flip opportunity.
鉴于弗利波面临一连串争议，阿莫迪多次将这位退役空军军官兼持牌财务顾问称为“骗子”。自2023年以来，弗利波屡次未能提交本可揭示其财务状况的所需财务披露文件。然后是弗利波的军事记录问题。多年来，弗利波戴着一顶帽子，暗示他因英勇表现而获得了铜星勋章——这是他本人承认并不拥有的罕见荣誉。当被追问帽子上V形配件时——美军用这种配件来表示相关奖章是因英勇表现而获得的——弗利波声称是他的孙辈把这些徽章别上去的。
In light of a laundry list of controversies Flippo faces, Amodei has repeatedly called the retired Air Force officer and licensed financial adviser a “fraud.”Since 2023, Flippo repeatedly failed to file required financial disclosures that would illuminate his financial position. Then there’s the case of Flippo’s military record. For years, Flippo wore a hat that suggested he earned the Bronze Star with valor—the rare award he admits he does not have. When pressed on the V-shaped hat accessories, which are used by the US military to show when awards are earned for valor, Flippo claimed his grandchildren had attached the emblems.
“是啊，没错。”阿莫迪对表示。“是你自己别上去的。抱歉！这只是我的推测。”弗利波还与一家可疑公司关系密切，该公司由一名在法庭记录中被控欺诈的商人经营。弗利波从这家公司——亚利桑那土地储备公司——以及该公司圈内人士提供的数十万美元政治捐款中获益。而获得的此前未报道的记录显示，弗利波在2024年因被指控“故意虚假陈述和/或遗漏重大事实”而被解雇，不再担任财务顾问——弗利波此前一直淡化这一解雇事件。
“Yeah, right.”Amodei told . “You put those on there. Sorry! Speculation on my part.”Flippo also has close ties to a dubious company run by an businessman who has been accused of fraud in court records. Flippo has benefited from hundreds of thousands of dollars in political donations from the company, Arizona Land Reserve, and people in the company’s orbit. And previously unreported records obtained by show Flippo was fired as a financial adviser in 2024 after being accused of “willful misrepresentations and/or omissions of material fact”—a firing Flippo has previously downplayed.
“那些誓言中没有任何地方说，要无视一个似乎存在某些重大缺陷的候选人，然后，你知道，只管做个好共和党人。”阿莫迪说。
“Nowhere in those oaths does it say ignore the candidate who appears to have some material defects and just, you know, be a good Republican,” Amodei said.