佐治亚州民主党人周三晚与前美国总统巴拉克·奥巴马共同举行集会，与此同时，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普在俄亥俄州试图激发其基本盘，随着下周中期选举临近，两党开始明确其收官信息。
Georgia Democrats rallied with former US President Barack Obama Wednesday night, at the same time US President Donald Trump was in Ohio attempting to energize his base, as both parties began crystallizing their closing messages ahead of next week's midterm elections.
特朗普已在全国进行为期数周的高强度奔波，仅本月就举行了20多场集会，并将未来几天安排得满满当当。但随着美国人面临创纪录的燃油价格、不断上涨的成本以及一场不得人心的伊朗战争，总统将重点放在他两年前大胜的州份上。
Trump has been on a weekslong sprint around the country, doing 20-plus rallies this month alone while packing upcoming days with more travel. But as Americans confront record fuel prices, rising costs and an unpopular war in Iran, the president has been keeping his focus on states that he won handily two years ago.
“如果你们能出来投票，”特朗普在俄亥俄州首府哥伦布市以南的奇利科西对一群喧闹的支持者说，“我们将取得巨大胜利。” 上一位连任两届的民主党总统奥巴马正日益频繁地为本党竞选，并欣然充当特朗普的反面教材——包括批评这位共和党人花费过多时间主持白宫装修，以及在任期间变得更富有。
“If you can get out to vote,” Trump told a raucous crowd in Chillicothe, south of Columbus, Ohio’s capital, “we’re going to have a tremendous victory.”The last Democratic president to serve two terms, Obama is increasingly campaigning for his party and gleefully acting as a foil to Trump — including criticizing the Republican for spending too much time leading White House renovations and for becoming wealthier while in office.
他说，特朗普“花时间在椭圆形办公室的壁炉架上用强力胶粘贴金质奖章”。奥巴马与亚特兰大前市长凯莎·兰斯·博托姆斯一同现身亚特兰大郊区，后者有望成为美国历史上首位当选州长的黑人女性，此外还有寻求连任、被视为潜在未来总统候选人的参议员乔恩·奥索夫同台。“无论你走到哪里，都感觉变革在酝酿之中，”这位前总统说。
He said Trump is “spending time supergluing gold medallions to the mantel in the Oval Office.”Obama appeared in suburban Atlanta with that city's former mayor, Keisha Lance Bottoms, who could be the first Black woman elected governor in the US, as well as Sen. Jon Ossoff, running for reelection and considered a potential future presidential candidate. “Everywhere you go, it feels like change is in the air,” the former president said.
即使举办如此多的集会，特朗普也已转向法院以影响中期选举，他指示司法部上周提起诉讼，预先争议阿拉斯加参议院选举的结果，以防民主党挑战者玛丽·佩尔托拉获胜。这是由于有一名第二候选人与共和党现任参议员丹·沙利文同名。
Even as he stages so many rallies, Trump also already turned to the courts to shape the midterms, directing his Department of Justice to file a lawsuit last week preemptively contesting the outcome of Alaska’s Senate race should Democratic challenger Mary Peltola win it. That’s due to the presence of a second candidate with the same name as Republican incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan.
在登上“空军一号”飞往俄亥俄州时，特朗普对记者呼吁佩尔托拉退出竞选，并警告她可能面临起诉。
Speaking to reporters as he boarded Air Force One to fly to Ohio, Trump called on Peltola to drop out of the race and warned she could face prosecution.
他的评论紧随《纽约时报》的一篇报道之后，报道称佩尔托拉的竞选团队参与了一项招募第二位丹·沙利文的努力。特朗普称这为“最高级别的选民欺诈”，并补充说：“结果发现这是民主党的阴谋。这就是他们最擅长的事：他们作弊。”佩尔托拉的竞选团队在一份声明中表示，它“与任何沙利文竞选团队都没有关系”。
His comments followed a New York Times report that Peltola’s campaign was involved in an effort to recruit the second Dan Sullivan, which Trump called “voter fraud at the highest level,” adding, “It turned out it was a scheme by the Democrats. That’s what they do best: they cheat.”Peltola’s campaign said in a statement that it “has no involvement with either Sullivan campaign.”
另一场备受关注的参议院选举将民主党人阿卜杜勒·埃尔赛义德与共和党人迈克·罗杰斯置于对立面。特朗普加强了针对埃尔赛义德的反穆斯林言论。埃尔赛义德周三在底特律外的怀安德特市一场活动的人群面前表示：“他们想指着我和我的名字。他们这样做是因为他们想转移我们的注意力。”“密歇根人心地善良。我们思想开明。我们不太在乎你如何祈祷；相反，我们在乎你祈祷什么，”埃尔赛义德说。共和党人认为埃尔赛义德反犹，他予以否认。
Another closely watched Senate race pits Democrat Abdul El-Sayed against Republican Mike Rogers. Trump has intensified his anti-Muslim rhetoric against El-Sayed, who on Wednesday told a crowd at an event in Wyandotte, outside Detroit, “They want to point to me and my name. They’re doing this because they’re trying to distract us.”“Michiganders are big-hearted. We’re open-minded. We don’t care as much how you pray; rather, we care what you pray for,” El-Sayed said. Republicans have argued El-Sayed is antisemitic, which he denies.
德克萨斯州参议员泰德·克鲁兹也经常被提及为2028年总统候选人，他与罗杰斯在密歇根州伯明翰市一起竞选，该活动由共和党犹太人联盟举办。克鲁兹说，反犹太主义是“撕裂这个国家的毒药”，并且民主党正被“自称的共产主义者和伊斯兰主义者”接管。活动中出现了几位选民，他们自称是终身民主党人，因为埃尔赛义德去年在底特律郊区一名男子袭击犹太会堂后发表的言论，而第一次投票给共和党人。
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who also is frequently mentioned as a 2028 presidential candidate, campaigned with Rogers in Birmingham, Michigan, at an event hosted by the Republican Jewish Coalition. Cruz said that antisemitism is “a poison that is ripping the country apart” and that the Democratic Party was being taken over by “self-proclaimed communists and Islamists.”The event featured several voters who described themselves as lifelong Democrats voting Republican for the first time because of El-Sayed’s comments last year after a man attacked a synagogue in a Detroit suburb.
埃尔赛义德将袭击与以色列在中东的行动联系起来，当时他说：“受伤的人会伤害他人。”他后来为这一言论道歉。
El-Sayed tied the attack to Israel’s actions in the Middle East, saying at the time that “hurt people hurt people.”He later apologized for the statement.
这一问题在埃尔赛义德与众议员黑莉·斯蒂文斯之间的民主党初选中成为焦点，他以微弱优势击败了斯蒂文斯。斯蒂文斯已支持她的前对手，但她的未婚夫杰森·土耳其周三告诉《底特律新闻》，他计划支持罗杰斯，因为他相信埃尔赛义德是反犹太主义者。
The issue was a focal point in the Democratic primary between El-Sayed and Rep. Haley Stevens, whom he narrowly defeated. Stevens has endorsed her former rival, but her fiance Jason Turkish told The Detroit News on Wednesday that he plans to back Rogers because he believes El-Sayed is an antisemite.
后来，斯蒂文斯在CNN上发表讲话，谈到土耳其的言论时说：“就像美国各地的家庭一样，我们是一个分裂的家庭。”“我仍然非常希望我们的民主党候选人——他的名字叫阿卜杜勒——赢得这场竞选，”斯蒂文斯说。
Later, Stevens appeared on CNN and said of Turkish’s comments, “Like a households across America, we’re a household divided.”“I still very much want our Democratic nominee — his name is Abdul — to win this race,” Stevens said.
但她也警告说，埃尔赛德有失去许多在初选中支持她的黑人和犹太选民的风险。她敦促他公开反对独立左翼团体“反叛政治行动委员会”发布的一则广告，该广告将美国对以色列的支持与高昂的杂货价格联系起来。
But she also warned that El-Sayed is at risk of losing many of the Black and Jewish voters who backed her in the primary. She urged him to disavow an ad by Rebellion PAC, an independent left-wing group, that linked U.S. support for Israel with high grocery prices.
埃尔赛德说：“我致力于维护犹太社区的安全，就像我致力于维护所有社区的安全一样，”他与该广告划清界限，但未回应其内容，称该广告“与我们的竞选活动无关”，并且“并非我现在想谈论的事情。”
El-Sayed said, “I’m committed to the safety of the Jewish community like I’m committed to safety of all communities," and he distanced himself from the ad without addressing its substance, saying it “has nothing to do with our campaign” and it’s “not what I want to be talking about right now."
“他可以做正确的事，”斯蒂文斯对CNN说。“他可以公开反对这些广告，并可以安抚那些仍然犹豫不决的选民。”特朗普在竞选最后阶段的行程反映了共和党的防御姿态，即使该党的财力——以及总统的标志性超级政治行动委员会“MAGA公司”——一直在帮助维持候选人。
“He can do the right thing,” Stevens told CNN. “He can disavow these ads and he can reassure these undecided voters who are still left.”Trump's stops in the closing stretch of the campaign reflect Republicans' defensive posture even as the party's finances — and the president's signature super PAC, MAGA Inc. — have helped sustain candidates.
特朗普周一访问了密西西比州，周二又在一系列德克萨斯州之行中再次停留。他计划在未来几天前往南卡罗来纳州、佛罗里达州、堪萨斯州和爱荷华州。前往如此多的深红州之行并不总是一帆风顺。
Trump visited Mississippi on Monday and made another stop in a series of trips to Texas on Tuesday. He plans to be in South Carolina, Florida, Kansas and Iowa in the coming days. Going to so many deeply red states hasn't always gone smoothly.
周三演讲一开始，特朗普就被一名抗议者打断，抗议者高喊关于已故的、名声扫地的金融家杰弗里·爱泼斯坦的内容，特朗普对这位昔日的朋友发表了一些罕见的言论，称他几十年前将爱泼斯坦赶出了位于佛罗里达州的马阿拉戈俱乐部。
Early in Wednesday's speech, Trump was interrupted by a protester shouting about the late, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and made some rare remarks on his onetime friend, saying he'd expelled Epstein from his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida decades ago.
“我做了一件好事，我必须告诉你们，”特朗普说，并补充道，“我把杰弗里·爱泼斯坦从马阿拉戈踢了出去。”随后，总统立即转而赞扬俄亥俄州参议员乔恩·赫斯坦的体格。
“That was a great thing I did, I must tell you,” Trump said, adding, “I threw Jeffrey Epstein the hell out of Mar-a-Lago.”The president then pivoted immediately into praising Ohio Sen. Jon Husted’s physique.
特朗普在巡回演讲时大肆赞美共和党人的外表，常常不论走到哪里，都会转而谈论曾在大学踢足球的胡斯特。胡斯特正面临来自前俄亥俄州民主党参议员谢罗德·布朗的挑战。
Trump has been lavishly praising Republicans' physical appearances on the trail, often diverting into tangents about Husted — who played football in college — no matter where he's campaigning. Husted is being challenged by former Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown.
特朗普还抨击了他的前任，斥责奥巴马暗示特朗普在白宫装修上花费了太多时间。特朗普说奥巴马“不了解整洁”，并提到破损的石材外墙和人行道等问题。“它比以往任何时候都更美丽，”特朗普评价白宫时说。
Trump also chided his predecessor, slamming Obama for suggesting Trump has spent too much time renovating the White House. Trump said Obama “doesn't understand cleanliness" and things like broken stone exteriors and sidewalks. “It's more beautiful than it's ever looked," Trump said of the White House.
奥巴马因上周末称特朗普在白宫的金色装饰看起来像“萨达姆·侯赛因开了家芝士蛋糕工厂”而受到抨击，他于周三在乔治亚州对这一争议作出回应。
Obama faced backlash for saying last weekend that Trump’s gilded flourishes to the White House looked like “Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory,” and he responded to the controversy Wednesday in Georgia.
“这些人不严肃，他们没有对实际问题的解决方案，”奥巴马谈及特朗普和最高层的共和党人时说。他还指出，“我曾在Chuck E. Cheese、California Pizza Kitchen和Cheesecake Factory吃饭——那是我大约十年的最爱。”在同一场集会上，奥索夫强调特朗普日益将其职务作为家族企业的盈利来源，尽管白宫表示特朗普已将控制权交给了他的儿子们。
“These are not serious people. They don’t have solutions to actual problems,” Obama said of Trump and top Republicans. He also noted, “I lived at Chuck E. Cheese and California Pizza Kitchen and the Cheesecake Factory — that was my jam for about a decade.”At the same rally, Ossoff focused on Trump increasingly using his office as a profit source for his family business, though the White House has said Trump has ceded control to his sons.
“在华盛顿和马阿拉哥，这是一场美国历史上前所未有的欺诈盛景，”他说。“从未有如此少的努力却要掩盖如此多的腐败，”奥索夫补充道。
“In Washington and at Mar-a-Lago, it’s a spectacle of grift unprecedented in American history,” he said. “Never before has so little effort been made to cover up so much corruption,” Ossoff added.