周四，特朗普总统在南卡罗来纳州为参议员达琳·格雷厄姆（共和党）举行的第三场也是最后一场竞选集会上，对民主党参议院候选人安妮·安德鲁斯发起了一连串文化战争攻击。“达琳·格雷厄姆把毕生精力都献给了本州人民，现在她正竞选公职，要把你们从一个激进的左翼疯子手中拯救出来，”特朗普对人群说，随后用他常用来称呼这位职业儿科医生的一个反跨性别蔑称来指代她的名字。
President Trump launched a barrage of culture war attacks Thursday against Democratic Senate nominee Annie Andrews during his third and final campaign rally for Sen. Darline Graham (R) in South Carolina. “Darline Graham has devoted her entire life to the people of this state, and now she's running to save you from a radical left lunatic," Trump said to the crowd before using an anti-transgender slur he's often applied to the career pediatrician's name.
他还称安德鲁斯是“残害者，一个狂热鼓吹由纳税人资助对儿童进行性残割的人”。本月早些时候，安德鲁斯在一则直接面对镜头的广告中回击了特朗普的这些指控。“所以我要你们听清楚：我不支持生理男性参加女子体育运动，我也不支持——而且从未实施过——为未成年人进行性别手术，”安德鲁斯在广告中说。这位医生过去曾支持为跨性别青少年提供性别肯定护理。
He also called Andrews a “mutilizer, a rabid advocate for taxpayer-funded child sexual mutilation.”Andrews, in a direct-to-camera ad earlier this month, hit back on the allegations from Trump. “So I want you to hear me loud and clear: I don’t support biological men playing women’s sports and I don’t support — and haven’t ever performed — gender surgery for minors,” Andrews says in the ad. The physician has in the past supported gender-affirming care for transgender youth.
2022年，她反对南卡罗来纳州的《拯救女子体育法案》，该法案将禁止跨性别学生参加与其性别认同相符的学校体育运动，她称其为“可耻的立法，对保护或支持南卡的女性或儿童毫无作用”。“事实上，它是有害的，”她在社交平台X上写道。“我将永远支持跨性别青少年。”特朗普曾亲自游说格雷厄姆竞选她已故兄弟的席位。
In 2022, she opposed the Save Women’s Sports act in South Carolina that would ban transgender students from participating in school sports that align with their gender identity, calling it a “shameful legislation that does nothing to protect or support women or children in SC.”“In fact, it is actively harmful,” she wrote on social platform X. “I will always support trans youth.”Trump personally lobbied Graham to run for her late brother's seat. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) was a major Trump ally in Congress before his surprising death over the summer.
参议员林赛·格雷厄姆（共和党-南卡罗来纳州）在今年夏天出人意料地去世之前，曾是特朗普在国会的重要盟友。Real Clear Polling的平均民调显示，这场选情势均力敌，达琳·格雷厄姆略微领先。
An average of polls on Real Clear Polling shows the race as a toss-up, with Darline Graham holding a slight lead. Trump also hit Andrews on gun control, calling her a “vicious anti-gun radical who endorsed a ban on the most popular firearms in America.”
特朗普还在枪支管控问题上攻击安德鲁斯，称她是一名“恶毒的反枪激进分子，曾支持禁止美国最流行的枪支”。安德鲁斯曾在“要求行动的妈妈们”南卡罗来纳州分会做志愿者，该组织是“为枪支安全而战每个城镇”组织的基层分支，但她在上周的一次市政厅会议上表示，她不“想拿走任何人的枪”。据《南卡罗来纳每日公报》报道，安德鲁斯说：“我应对枪支暴力公共卫生危机的纲领并不侵犯第二修正案。我支持第二修正案，支持守法公民拥有枪支的权利，但我知道我们需要采取行动应对这场公共卫生危机。”
Andrews formerly volunteered with the South Carolina chapter of Moms Demand Action, the grassroots arm of Everytown for Gun Safety, but said at a town hall last week that she doesn’t “want to take anyone’s guns.”“My platform to address the public health crisis of gun violence does not infringe on the Second Amendment,” Andrews said, according to the South Carolina Daily Gazette. “I support the Second Amendment, law-abiding citizens’ rights to own firearms, but I know we need to do something about this public health crisis.”
特朗普指出，她获得美国全国步枪协会的“F”级评价，而他自己获得“A”级评价。全国步枪协会已在该竞选中背书格雷厄姆。总统还称安德鲁斯是削减警力经费的支持者。没有记录显示安德鲁斯明确支持削减执法经费的政策。她曾抨击格雷厄姆未为某些支持警员的法案提供资金。“我们的警察每天都将生命置于险境，他们应得的不仅仅是空洞的言辞——他们应得的是一位会签署保护他们、支持他们家庭立法的参议员，”据报道，安德鲁斯在本月早些时候的一份声明中说。
Trump pointed to her "F" rating from the National Rifle Association, in contrast to his "A" rating. The NRA has endorsed Graham in the race. The president said Andrews is also a proponent of defunding the police. There's no record of Andrews explicitly backing policies to defund law enforcement. She has hit Graham for not funding certain bills that would support officers. “Our police officers put their lives on the line every day and deserve more than hollow words — they deserve a senator who will sign on to legislation that protects them and supports their families,” Andrews said in a statement earlier this month, according to reports.
特朗普聚焦文化战争议题，正值总统及其政党面临主要由伊朗战争引发的经济逆风。特朗普的支持率在中期选举前几周跌至历史低点。路透社/益普索本周早些时候发布的一项民调显示，32%的美国成年人支持特朗普的工作表现，而66%表示不同意。该民调还显示，37%的选民认为民主党在经济问题上有更好的应对办法，而33%的人对共和党持同样看法。
Trump's focus on culture-war issues comes as the president and his party face economic headwinds largely brought about by the war in Iran. Trump's approval rating has hit record lows in the weeks before the midterms. A Reuters/Ipsos survey released earlier this week found that 32 percent of U.S. adults support Trump’s job performance, while 66 percent disagreed. The poll also showed that 37 percent of voters said Democrats have a better approach to the economy, while 33 percent said the same about Republicans.
这一数字与伊朗战争爆发前的民调形成鲜明对比，此前的民调显示共和党在经济问题上占优。
That figure is a stark change from polls taken before the start of the Iran war, which gave Republicans an edge on the economy.