在大选前夕，唐纳德·特朗普总统在林肯纪念堂倒影池发表讲话，表示共和党“竭尽全力”，同时承认从历史上看，总统所属党派“赢不了中期选举”。“这是中期选举前的最后一天——我认为这是我们有生之年最重要的一次中期选举，”特朗普周一在周二中期选举前的最后一次重要讲话中说。“民主党提名了美国历史上最极端、最危险的一批候选人。这些是有史以来最危险的候选人。”
In an election-eve speech at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, President Donald Trump said that Republicans “gave this a very strong shot,” while acknowledging that historically, the president’s party “doesn’t win the midterms.”“This is the last day before the midterm elections — the most important midterm, I believe, in our lifetime,” Trump said Monday in his final major speech before the midterm elections on Tuesday. “The Democrat Party has nominated the most extreme and dangerous slate of candidates in American history. These are the most dangerous candidates ever put up.”
尽管一位白宫官员事先表示，这番讲话将代表特朗普选民最后一次前往投票站前的“收官信息”，但总统将大部分讲话时间花在了倒影池上。特朗普宣布倒影池将在维修数月后重新开放，并谈论了他在华盛顿特区下令进行的其他翻新项目，这是他第二任期的一个主要关注点和着迷点。谈到选举时，总统吹嘘他所认为的经济成就，称“个人收入处于历史最高水平”且“贫困率处于历史最低纪录”。
Although a White House official had said in advance that the speech would represent Trump’s “closing message” before voters make their final trips to the polls, the president spent most of his remarks speaking about the Reflecting Pool. Trump announced the Reflecting Pool will reopen after months of repairs, and talked about other renovation projects he has ordered around Washington, D.C., a key focus and fascination of his second term. Speaking about the election, the president touted what he considered economic wins, saying “personal incomes are the highest in history” and “the poverty rate is at an all-time record low.”
但他表示，“如果我们要愚蠢地让那些仇恨我们国家的人赢得选举，这一切都无关紧要。”“如果投我票、在上次选举中投票的人……只要其中相当一部分人投票，我们将大获全胜，”他接着说。“但这通常不会发生，因为无论在任总统是谁，共和党还是民主党，好总统还是坏总统，优秀总统、伟大总统、糟糕总统——出于某种原因，在任总统赢不了中期选举，但我们竭尽全力了。”特朗普抨击民主党候选人，并虚假宣称其中一些人是圣战分子或穆斯林兄弟会成员。
But, he said, “it all doesn’t matter if we’re going to be foolish and let people that hate our country win an election.”“If the people that voted for me and voted in the last election ... just a good portion of them, we will win in a landslide,” he continued. “Now that doesn’t happen because usually, whoever the sitting president is, Republican or Democrat, good or bad, good president, great president, bad — for some reason, the sitting president doesn’t win the midterms, but we gave this a very strong shot.”Trump derided Democratic candidates and falsely said that some were jihadists or members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
他说，他们“都致力于同一个激进议程：开放边境，让你的税收增加数万亿美元，夺走你的枪支，对你的孩子实施跨性别残害，废除石油和天然气，让能源成本飙升，并向来自世界各地的数百万移民敞开大门，希望让他们能够投票。”
He said they are “all committed to the same radical agenda: open borders, raising your taxes by trillions of dollars, taking away your guns, transgender mutilation of your children, abolishing oil and natural gas, sending energy costs skyrocketing, and opening the floodgates to millions of migrants from all over the world, hoping to get them to be able to vote.”
总统提到了阿拉斯加州的参议院竞选，以及上周《纽约时报》的一份报道，称民主党参议院候选人玛丽·佩尔托拉的竞选团队和其他民主党人招募了一名候选人——丹·J·沙利文——参选参议院，其名字与现任参议员相同。佩尔托拉否认知情这一据称的计划。“他们找了一个叫丹·沙利文的人来对阵丹·沙利文，”特朗普说。“这是腐败。这真的是欺诈，欺诈性选举。”
The president referred to Alaska’s Senate race and last week’s report by the New York Times that said Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola’s campaign and other Democrats recruited a candidate — Dan J. Sullivan — to run for the Senate with the same name as the incumbent senator. Peltola has denied being aware of the reported scheme. “They got somebody named Dan Sullivan to run against Dan Sullivan,” Trump said. “It’s corrupt. It’s really a fraud, fraudulent election.”
特朗普的讲话是在周日结束为期28场集会的美国巡回竞选、为共和党候选人助选的第二天发表的。在竞选最后一个月里，总统奔波了25天，造访了19个州。他在周日于华盛顿特区以外举行了最后的集会，一场在堪萨斯州，另一场在爱荷华州，这两个州都有竞争激烈的参议院竞选。特朗普定于周一在华盛顿特区参加几场针对中期选举的电话集会。相比之下，在2018年中期选举周期的最后一天，特朗普在三个州举行了现场集会。
Trump’s speech comes a day after he closed out a 28-rally swing through the U.S. to campaign for Republican candidates on Sunday. The president traveled for 25 days in the final month of the campaign, visiting 19 states. He held his final rallies outside of Washington on Sunday, with one in Kansas and the other in Iowa, both states with competitive Senate races. Trump is slated to participate in several tele-rallies for the midterms from Washington, D.C., on Monday. On the final day of the 2018 midterm election cycle, by contrast, Trump held in-person rallies in three states.
“明天我们有一些大选战，”特朗普在讲话中说。“我想一些投票已经进行了，但明天是选举日，更传统一些。”
“We’ve got some big races tomorrow,” Trump said during his remarks. “I guess some of the voting has already gone on, but tomorrow’s Election Day, more traditional.”
周日被问及为何选择在倒影池发表讲话时，特朗普对记者说，“只是为了展示它有多美。它已经修复完毕了。它曾被严重破坏。我们现在到处都装上了摄像头，针对破坏者。”
Asked Sunday why he chose to speak at the Reflecting Pool, Trump told reporters, “Just to show how beautiful it is. It’s been finished. It was vandalized badly. We have cameras all over the place now for the vandals.”
周一，他站在一张写着“回来了，比以往更美”的海报旁。“我们正在繁荣，前所未有的繁荣，”他说。
On Monday, he stood next to a poster that said, “Back, and more beautiful than ever.”“We’re booming like we’ve never boomed before,” he said.
“我们清理了数百处涂鸦现场，修复了华盛顿特区2300多盏照明灯具，清洁并翻新了83多座雕像、喷泉和纪念碑，清除了数百个肮脏的无家可归者营地。”除了市中心林肯纪念堂和二战纪念堂之间的倒影池，特朗普还强调了他发起的其他建设项目，包括白宫舞厅、白宫直升机停机坪、市内一座新高尔夫球场和一座凯旋门等项目。
“We’ve cleaned hundreds of sites of graffiti, fixed over 2,300 lighting fixtures in Washington, D.C., cleaned and renovated over 83 statues and fountains and monuments, removed hundreds of squalid homeless encampments.”In addition to the Reflecting Pool between the Lincoln Memorial and the World War II Memorial downtown, Trump highlighted other construction projects he launched, including the White House ballroom, a White House helipad, a new golf course in the city and a triumphal arch, among other projects.
特朗普一度似乎在开玩笑说，倒影池将以他的名字命名。由于底部涂层剥落并滋生藻类导致水体发绿，需要进行额外翻修，倒影池自7月起一直处于关闭状态。国家公园管理局最近宣布，将池塘及其周边区域的关闭时间延长至11月20日。在6月份首次翻修开始并重新向公众开放后，特朗普指责多人“破坏”了该池塘。华盛顿联邦检察官办公室以破坏财产罪起诉了前奥运皮划艇运动员大卫·赫恩，事发于6月19日的一次访问期间。
Trump appeared to joke at one point that the Reflecting Pool would be named after himself. The Reflecting Pool has been closed since July after additional renovations had to be made after the bottom’s coating peeled and algae formed, tinting the water green. The National Park Service announced recently that it was extending the closure of the pool and the areas surrounding it until Nov. 20. After the initial renovation process began in June and it first reopened to the public, Trump accused multiple people of “destroying” the pool. The U.S. attorney’s office in Washington charged former Olympic canoeist David Hearn with destruction of property during a June 19 visit.
7月下旬，由珍妮·皮罗领导的联邦检察官办公室撤销了对赫恩的指控，理由是获得的信息动摇了“对其起诉的证据基础”。
In late July, the U.S. attorney’s office, led by Jeanine Pirro, dropped its case against Hearn, citing information it had obtained that undermined “the evidentiary basis for the indictment” against him.