美联社亚特兰大电 —— 参议员乔恩·奥索夫正力争在周二赢得连任。此前的一场竞选活动中，这位佐治亚州民主党人对唐纳德·特朗普以及总统挑选的共和党竞争对手、众议员迈克·柯林斯展开了毫不留情的批判。
BILL BARROW ATLANTA — Sen. Jon Ossoff is vying to win reelection Tuesday after a campaign framed by the Georgia Democrat’s relentless criticism of Donald Trump and the president’s choice of a Republican rival, Rep. Mike Collins.
柯林斯在今年早些时候历时较长的党内初选中赢得了特朗普的支持，但该党很快便对击败奥索夫失去信心——奥索夫最初被认为是今年所有参议院竞选中最为脆弱的民主党现任议员。最近几个月，共和党组织将资金撤出该州，而奥索夫则筹集了超过1.09亿美元，在全国所有参议院候选人中名列前茅。
Collins won Trump’s backing during a drawn-out primary earlier this year, but the party soon lost hope that he would be able to defeat Ossoff, originally believed to be the most vulnerable Democratic incumbent in any Senate race this year. In recent months, Republican organizations shifted money away from the state while Ossoff raised more than $109 million to lead all Senate candidates nationally.
“一股浪潮正在形成，”奥索夫在选举日前夕对支持者表示，“这是那种几十年难得一见的浪潮，当人们被逼得太远，他们便会齐心协力、异口同声地表示受够了。”特朗普在2016年和2024年的总统竞选中赢得了佐治亚州，他在该州2020年的失利长期以来一直是其关于选举欺诈虚假说法的核心。现年39岁的奥索夫若能在这一摇摆州获胜，将加剧关于他可能在2028年竞选白宫的传言，尽管他已否认自己对此感兴趣。
“A wave is building,” Ossoff told his supporters ahead of Election Day, “the kind of wave that comes once a generation when people have been pushed too far, and they decide all together, all at once, to say enough is enough.”Trump won Georgia in the 2016 and 2024 presidential campaigns, and his loss there in 2020 has long been central to his false claims about voter fraud. If Ossoff, 39, triumphs in the battleground state, it would intensify chatter that he may run for the White House in 2028, even though he’s denied interest.
奥索夫将他的连任竞选纲领定位为一场反对广泛政治腐败的斗争，重点指向特朗普以及总统重返白宫以来第一家庭财富的大幅增长。
Ossoff has built his reelection pitch as a fight against broad political corruption, focusing on Trump and the first family’s dramatic increase in wealth since the president’s return to the White House.
他给特朗普贴上了“失败的总统”的标签，指责其从椭圆形办公室牟利并加剧了对政府的不信任。“腐蚀我们政治的不仅仅是金钱，”奥索夫说，“这是一种道德上的腐败，是当权者冷酷的冷漠。”这位参议员猛烈抨击柯林斯——一名附和总统2020年选举谎言而当选国会议员的特朗普信徒，称其对唐纳德·特朗普有着“可悲的、孩子般的忠诚”。他还多次将柯林斯贴上“顽固分子”和“给我们州带来耻辱”的标签，部分原因在于柯林斯拥有曾与白宫至上主义者会面并在网上传播白宫民族主义宣传的助手和女婿。
He’s tagged Trump “a failed president” profiting from the Oval Office and exacerbating distrust in government. “It’s not just the money that’s corrupted our politics,” Ossoff said. “It is a moral corruption, the cynical indifference of powerful people.”The senator has lambasted Collins, a Trump acolyte who was elected to Congress echoing the president’s 2020 election lies, for a “pathetic, childlike devotion to Donald Trump.”And he’s repeatedly tagged Collins as a “bigot” who “brought dishonor to our state,” in part for having aides and a son-in-law who have met with white supremacists and circulated white nationalist propaganda online.
当被问及此事时，柯林斯公开谴责了白宫至上主义和反犹太主义，并指出他已经解雇了这些前幕僚。但这一争议对他的纠缠挥之不去，以至于当被追问此事时，他曾气冲冲地中途离开了一场竞选新闻发布会。
When asked, Collins has publicly condemned white supremacy and antisemitism and noted he fired those former staffers. But the controversy dogged him enough that he abruptly walked away from one campaign news conference when pressed about the matter.
柯林斯已经面临着重组共和党联盟的挑战。参议院领导层曾希望卸任的佐治亚州州长布赖恩·坎普竞选该席位。他予以拒绝，转而招募并支持前橄榄球教练德里克·杜利。柯林斯在6月的决选击败了杜利，但前提是坎普花了好几个星期告诉共和党选民，柯林斯在11月不可能获胜。直到9月，坎普才对柯林斯予以背书。
Collins already faced the challenge of restitching the Republican coalition. Senate leaders wanted outgoing Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp to run for the seat. He declined, instead recruiting and backing former football coach Derek Dooley. Collins defeated Dooley in a June runoff, but only after Kemp spent weeks telling Republican voters that Collins could not win in November. Kemp did not endorse Collins until September.
这位国会议员试图强调他在私营部门的经验，他是一家由其父亲（同为国会议员）创办的货运公司的老板。他为自己对特朗普议程的支持进行了辩护，其中包括对伊朗战争、关税以及共和党的税收立法，并坚称奥索夫才是这场竞选中的极端分子。他指责奥索夫导致边境安全松弛和通货膨胀。
The congressman has tried to emphasize his private sector experience as the owner of a trucking company started by his father, who was also a congressman. He has defended his support for Trump’s agenda, including the Iran war, tariffs and Republicans’ tax legislation, and he insists that Ossoff is the extremist in the contest. He blames Ossoff for lax border security and inflation.
“我的对手是个激进分子，他让我们州变得更不安全、生活成本更高、处境更糟，”柯林斯说，“我会兑现承诺。我会为我们州而战，而不是与它作对。”两人都吹捧了他们在国会山的工作成果。
“My opponent is a radical, and he has left our state less safe, more expensive, and worse off,” Collins said. “I’ll deliver. I’ll fight for our state, not against it.”Both men have touted their work on Capitol Hill.
柯林斯极力宣传他发起《拉克恩·莱利法案》的经历，该2025年法律规定，被指控犯有特定罪行的非法滞留移民必须被拘留。该法案以一名佐治亚州护理专业学生的名字命名，她在2024年被一名在美国非法的委内瑞拉男子杀害。
Collins leans heavily on his sponsorship of the Laken Riley Act, the 2025 law requiring that immigrants who are in the country illegally be detained when accused of certain crimes. It is named for a Georgia nursing student who was killed in 2024 by a Venezuelan man in the U.S. illegally.
奥索夫则提及他在参议院为选民服务的工作，从飓风救援、基础设施项目，到协助地方政府和试图浏览联邦项目的普通公民。他获得了数名地方共和党官员的背书。
Ossoff notes his Senate work in helping constituents, from hurricane relief and infrastructure projects to assisting local governments and individual citizens trying to navigate federal programs. He got endorsements from several local Republican officials.
然而，正是这位参议员激昂的言辞和对特朗普的攻击引发了全国的关注，并推动了他创纪录的筹款额，其筹款额比柯林斯高出10倍以上。
But it’s the senator’s sweeping rhetoric and attacks on Trump that garnered national attention and fueled his prolific fundraising that outpaced Collins by more than 10-to-1.
奥索夫对有关竞选总统的传言不予理睬，但他告诉佐治亚州选民，他们可以发出一个全国性的信息。他说，胜利将意味着“我们选出了那些理解当下时刻并有意志去迎接它的人”。
Ossoff dismisses the chatter about running for president, but he’s told Georgia voters they can send a national message. Victory, he said, will mean “we elected those who understood the moment and had the will to meet it.”