今日来自全国各地的竞选相关新闻汇总。
Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.
- 随着南卡罗来纳州出人意料地激烈的联邦参议院竞选进入倒计时，参议院民主党人的首要超级政治行动委员会终于开始投资该竞选。《政治报》（Politico）报道，参议院多数党政治行动委员会（Senate Majority PAC）将斥资75万美元投放数字广告，旨在助推民主党提名人安妮·安德鲁斯（Annie Andrews）在对阵现任共和党参议员达琳·格雷厄姆（Darline Graham）的竞选中占据优势。
- With time running out in South Carolina’s unexpectedly competitive U.S. Senate race, the Senate Democrats’ top super PAC is finally investing in the race. Politico reported that the Senate Majority PAC is spending $750,000 on digital ads, hoping to boost Annie Andrews, the Democratic nominee, in her race against incumbent Republican Sen. Darline Graham.
这笔投资紧随参议院共和党人的首要超级政治行动委员会斥资更多、试图挽救这位获委任的共和党现任议员之后。《MS NOW》报道称，共和党圈子里对南卡罗来纳州竞选形势的“恐慌”感与日俱增，这在很大程度上源于对格雷厄姆的疑虑。
The investment comes on the heels of the Senate Republicans’ top super PAC spending even more in the hopes of rescuing the appointed GOP incumbent. In fact, MS NOW reported that there’s a growing sense of “panic” in Republican circles about the state of the race in South Carolina, fueled in large part by doubts about Graham.
- 在俄亥俄州州长竞选中，共和党人维韦克·拉马斯瓦米（Vivek Ramaswamy）那则臭名昭著的攻击广告终于撤出了该州的电视荧屏。据其竞选团队称，该广告是在完成既定投放周期后轮换下线，而非因适得其反而被迫撤下。
- In Ohio’s gubernatorial race, Republican Vivek Ramaswamy’s notorious attack ad is finally leaving the state’s airwaves. According to his campaign, the commercial is rotating out after completing its intended run, rather than being pulled for having backfired.
- 在堪萨斯州联邦参议院竞选中，《华盛顿邮报》（The Washington Post）与乔治·梅森大学（George Mason University）联合进行的一项民调显示，亚当·汉密尔顿牧师（Rev. Adam Hamilton）以意想不到的9个百分点优势领先现任共和党参议员罗杰·马歇尔（Roger Marshall），尽管《邮报》关于该调查结果的文章大篇幅强调，登记在册的民主党选民“在接听访谈员电话并完成调查的可能性上，是登记在册的共和党选民的两倍多。”
- In Kansas’ U.S. Senate race, The Washington Post and George Mason University conducted a poll that found the Rev. Adam Hamilton with an unexpectedly large nine-point advantage over incumbent Republican Sen. Roger Marshall, though the Post’s article on the survey results emphasized at great lengths that registered Democrats “were more than twice as likely as registered Republicans to complete the survey after answering an interviewer’s call.”
尽管如此，汉密尔顿仍继续获得堪萨斯州知名共和党人的背书：曾于1996年短暂接任时任参议员鲍勃·多尔（Bob Dole）席位的前参议员希拉·弗拉姆（Sheila Frahm）周四宣布，虽然她过去曾支持马歇尔，但今年将支持汉密尔顿。
Nevertheless, Hamilton continues to pick up endorsements from notable Kansas Republicans: Former Sen. Sheila Frahm, who briefly held then-Sen. Bob Dole’s seat in 1996, announced Thursday that while she’d backed Marshall in the past, she’s supporting Hamilton this year.
- 唐纳德·特朗普原定于周日在堪萨斯州和爱荷华州主持竞选集会。周四，总统团队改变主意，取消了这些活动。周五上午，白宫似乎再次改变主意，恢复了这些活动。
- Donald Trump was scheduled to headline campaign rallies in Kansas and Iowa on Sunday. On Thursday, the president’s team reversed course and canceled the events. On Friday morning, the White House appears to have reversed course again and resurrected the events.
- 在缅因州的联邦参议员竞选中，即将卸任的民主党籍州长珍妮特·米尔斯终于背书同党的特洛伊·杰克逊，后者正在挑战现任共和党参议员苏珊·柯林斯，尽管她是以最间接的方式背书的，呼吁缅因州选民“从头到尾都投给民主党人”。
- In Maine’s U.S. Senate race, outgoing Democratic Gov. Janet Mills has finally endorsed fellow Democrat Troy Jackson in his race against incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins, although she did so in the most indirect way possible, urging Mainers to “vote for Democrats up and down the ballot.”
- 如果觉得今年的中期选举花费了巨额资金，那不是错觉。《纽约时报》本周报道称：“根据监测广告支出的 AdImpact 数据，这正式成为有史以来最昂贵的政治广告周期。总统选举周期通常比中期选举周期更昂贵，但这次不是：之前的纪录出现在 2023-2024 周期，当时 AdImpact 记录的广告支出为 112 亿美元。该公司表示，这一纪录已于周一被打破，目前已有 112.1 亿美元的广告被预订或预留。”
- And if it seems this year’s midterms have cost an enormous amount of money, it’s not your imagination. The New York Times reported this week, “This is officially the most expensive political advertising cycle ever, according to AdImpact, which monitors ad spending. Presidential cycles are typically more expensive than midterm ones, but not this time: The previous record was recorded in the 2023-2024 cycle, when AdImpact recorded $11.2 billion in ad spending. That was eclipsed [Monday], as now $11.21 billion of ads are booked or reserved, the firm said.”