美国总统唐纳德·特朗普正从实地竞选活动中抽身，转而举行线上集会。这使得竞选舞台留给了参议院和众议院候选人，其中得克萨斯州参议员候选人、共和党人肯·帕克斯顿和民主党人詹姆斯·塔拉里科举行了对垒活动。
President Donald Trump is taking time off from the in-person campaign trail for virtual rallies. That leaves the campaign trail to Senate and House candidates, with Texas Senate candidates Ken Paxton, a Republican, and James Talarico, a Democrat, holding dueling events.
比尔·巴罗 得克萨斯州原本不被视为可能重塑唐纳德·特朗普第二个总统任期最后篇章的中期选举核心战场。
BILL BARROW Texas was not expected to be an epicenter of midterm elections that could reshape the final chapters of Donald Trump’s second presidency.
共和党人肯·帕克斯顿和民主党人詹姆斯·塔拉里科正在一场势均力敌的联邦参议员竞选中进行最后周末冲刺，这场竞选已成为衡量选民对特朗普领导力及其政党不满情绪的一个指标。
Republican Ken Paxton Democrat James Talarico are making final weekend blitzes in a tossup U.S. Senate race that has become one measure of voters’ frustration with Trump’s leadership and his party.
帕克斯顿是长期担任州检察长，今年早些时候在特朗普助选下击败了共和党联邦参议员约翰·科宁。周六上午，他在沃斯堡警告选民不要让民主党重掌国会山控制权。
Paxton, the longtime state attorney general who defeated Republican Sen. John Cornyn earlier this year with Trump’s help, warned voters against restoring Democratic control of Capitol Hill.
“这个国家的左派变得越来越激进，”帕克斯顿说。他告诉支持者，这次选举“将胶着至最后时刻”，关键在于拒绝“民主党人在全国各地目前推行的每一个危险想法”。塔拉里科是一名州议员，定于周六晚些时候在休斯顿举行集会助选。
“The left in this country keeps getting more and more radical,” Paxton said Saturday morning in Fort Worth. The election, he told his supporters, will “go down to the wire” and is about rejecting “every dangerous idea that Democrats across the country are putting forward right now.”Talarico, a state lawmaker, was to rally support in Houston later Saturday.
随着多州提前投票接近尾声，得克萨斯州进入冲刺阶段。进入周末，提前投票总数已逼近5000万张。
The closing sprint in Texas comes as early voting nears its conclusion in several states. Early balloting totals were approaching 50 million heading into the weekend.
特朗普将“上线”而非“上台” 总统周六不再举行实地集会，转为参加虚拟活动。他在佛罗里达州西棕榈滩高尔夫俱乐部度过上午和下午早些时候后，计划连线参加六场电话集会。白鲜发布的细节很少，但总统通常参与此类连线——这与他往往长达90分钟以上的集会演讲形成区别。
Trump will be on the phone, not on stage The president was stepping away from in-person rallies Saturday in favor of virtual events. He was scheduled to call into six tele-rallies after spending the morning and early afternoon at the golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida. The White House released few details on what to expect, but the president generally participates in such calls — a departure from his rally speeches, which often stretch for 90-plus minutes.
总统在10月最后几周密集举行全国各地的集会，其中包括他在三次竞选中均以舒服优势获胜的州份。周日，特朗普计划在爱荷华州和堪萨斯州举行集会，这些集会原定举行、后被取消，随后又重新安排。
The president has blitzed the closing weeks of October with rallies across the country, including in states he won comfortably in each of his three campaigns. On Sunday, Trump is set to hold rallies in Iowa and Kansas that were scheduled, pulled down and then rescheduled.
众议院少数党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯——如果民主党赢得众议院多数席位，他将成为议长——正在弗吉尼亚州第2国会选区与前众议员伊莱恩·卢里亚一同竞选。卢里亚正在与共和党众议员珍·基根斯进行二度交锋。四年前，卢里亚曾将该席位输给基根斯。“我们将每一天都为一个负担得起的美国而奋斗，”杰弗里斯说。
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who would become speaker if Democrats win a House majority, was in Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District campaigning with former Rep. Elaine Luria, who is in a rematch with Republican Rep. Jen Kiggans. Luria lost her seat to Kiggans four years ago. “We’re going to fight hard each and every day for an affordable America,” Jeffries said.
杰弗里斯在弗吉尼亚州预演民主党掌权后的作为 他猛烈抨击共和党制造了一个“充满失信承诺的坟场”，并重申承诺将推动投票废除共和党的医疗削减政策、通过全面的投票权法案，以及限制特朗普对伊朗的军事行动。
In Virginia, Jeffries previews Democratic control He hammered Republicans for filling a “graveyard of broken promises” and repeated his pledge to hold votes on reversing Republicans’ healthcare cuts, pass sweeping voting rights laws and limit Trump’s military actions on Iran.
“从第一天起，我们将让骗子们承担责任，”他说，预告将对特朗普政府进行强力监督。他点名特朗普的五角大楼负责人皮特·赫格塞斯，称后者因改组军方领导层、解职高级将领和其他军官等举措，激怒了民主党人和共和党人。
“在成为多数党后，我们要做的第一件事之一就是把皮特·赫格塞斯赶出去，”杰弗里斯说，引来了他11分钟演讲中或许最热烈的欢呼声。
“Beginning on day one, we’re going to hold the crooks accountable,” he said, previewing aggressive oversight of the Trump administration. He specifically named Trump’s Pentagon chief, Pete Hegseth, who has rankled Democrats and Republicans, among other actions, with his overhaul of military leadership and dismissals of top generals and other officers“In the majority, one of the first things we are going to do is run Pete Hegseth out of town,” Jeffries said, drawing perhaps the loudest roar of his 11-minute speech.
这个弗吉尼亚东南部选区是众议院战场版图中竞争最激烈的选区之一，民主党试图扩大战场，瞄准至少60个席位。特朗普在2024年曾在其中许多选区以两位数优势获胜。
The southeast Virginia district is among the most competitive in a House battleground map that Democrats have tried to widen to target at least 60 seats. Trump won many of those by double digits in 2024.
帕克斯顿倾向于用极端标签攻击左派 德克萨斯州或许是这些异类选区中最早被认定为真正具有竞争力的一个。
Paxton leans into extreme labeling of the left Texas was perhaps the first of those outliers to be recognized as truly competitive.
帕克斯顿长期陷入争议，但获得特朗普支持，他致力于将塔拉里科描绘成极左议程的代言人，以及杰弗里斯和参议院少数党领袖舒默（民主党-纽约州）等华盛顿权力掮客的代言人。
Paxton, beset by years of controversy but backed by Trump, has focused on casting Talarico as the frontman for a far-left agenda and Washington powerbrokers like Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York.
“我说如果我们失去德克萨斯州，我们就失去美国，绝不夸张，”帕克斯顿说。“这就是我们在为之奋斗的目标。这是我们的时代，我们的时刻，要像我们之前的几代爱国者那样，划出我们的底线。”他敦促共和党人要达到民主党人在早期投票中表现出的那种热情投票率。随后他又提出了一个请求。
“I’m not exaggerating when I say, if we lose Texas, we lose America,” Paxton said. “That’s what we’re fighting for. This is our time, our moment to draw our line in the sand that generations of patriots drew before us.”He urged Republicans to match enthusiastic early voting turnout from Democrats. Then he made one more entreaty.
“为我们的德克萨斯州祈祷，”他说。“为我祈祷。” 密歇根州民主党面临新动荡 民主党参议员提名人阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德和前初选对手海莉·史蒂文斯原定于周日与众议员克莱伯恩一同竞选，但目前成疑。
“Pray for our Texas,” he said. “Pray for me.”Democrats face fresh turmoil in Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed and former primary rival Haley Stevens were expected to campaign together on Sunday with Rep. James Clyburn, but that is in doubt.
据一位知情人士透露，因史蒂文斯重申对埃尔-赛义德的批评，埃尔-赛义德的竞选团队不再欢迎她出席活动，该人士因讨论内部事务要求匿名。
After Stevens renewed her criticism of El-Sayed, his campaign is no longer welcoming her to events, according to a person familiar with the matter who requested anonymity to discuss internal matters.
不过，克莱伯恩的顾问安特万·西赖特表示，这位众议员仍邀请两人于周日上午同他一起去教堂。史蒂文斯及其发言人均未回复询问她是否仍计划出席的短信。
However, Antjuan Seawright, an adviser for Clyburn, said the congressman was still inviting both to join him for church on Sunday morning. Both Stevens and her spokesperson did not respond to texts asking whether she was still planning to attend.
史蒂文斯要求埃尔-赛义德谴责一份将美国对以色列的支持与食品杂货价格上涨挂钩的文件，并回应关于他过去言论令一些犹太裔选民担忧的问题。
Stevens has been demanding that El-Sayed condemn an linking U.S. support for Israel to rising grocery prices and also address concerns about his past rhetoric that has concerned some Jewish voters.
___ 巴罗从亚特兰大发稿。美联社记者乔伊·卡佩莱蒂和威尔·韦塞特从华盛顿参与报道。
___ Barrow reported from Atlanta. Associated Press reporters Joey Cappelletti and Will Weissert contributed from Washington.