随着美国人在决定国会控制权的中期选举中投票，选民告诉路透社，他们受到从生活成本到总统唐纳德·特朗普移民打击等各种问题的驱动。以下是他们的部分评论：“我选择埃尔赛德，因为我是一名护理人员……我看到他正在努力做出重大改变，努力帮助我们保住社会保障，努力帮助他们把医疗成本降下来，”哈姆林在一次采访中说。
As Americans cast ballots in midterm elections that will decide control of Congress, voters told Reuters they were motivated by issues ranging from the cost of living to President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown. Here are some of their comments: "I chose El-Sayed because I'm a caregiver...I see that he's trying to make big changes, trying to help us keep Social Security, trying to help them bring back down the medical costs," Hamlin said in an interview.
哈姆林说，她相信共和党候选人迈克·罗杰斯“和大药企勾结在一起”，不会推行帮助美国工薪阶层的政策。
Hamlin said she believed Republican candidate Mike Rogers "lays in bed with Big Pharma" and would not pursue policies that help working-class Americans.
“现在不要做。要因为那是你本身而去做。要经常这样做，”汤斯说。
"Don't do it now. Do it because that's who you are. Do that on the regular," Towns said.
民主党人斯蒂文斯决定支持共和党候选人“非常罕见。这从未发生过。所以，我必须相信那里面有什么东西，”斯托基在一次采访中说。
Democrat Stevens' decision to support the Republican candidate was "very rare. It never happens. So, I got to believe that there's something there," Stockyj said in an interview.
埃尔赛德“比我喜欢的要进步一点点……谁来支付他想做的所有事情？根本没有那么多钱。（要）支付这些钱的人就是你和我。”“我的一名学生在不到48小时内被驱逐到墨西哥，”布朗说，他拒绝透露自己投给了谁。
El-Sayed "is a little bit more progressive than I would like.... Who's going to pay for all the stuff that he wants to do? There just isn't the money. (The) people that are going to pay for it are you and me.”“One of my students was deported to Mexico in less than 48 hours,” said Brown, who declined to say whom he voted for.
“我有学生恳求我找办法帮他们回家，因为他们每天都害怕走回家。害怕每天去上班。”
“I had students who were asking me to literally find ways to help them get home because they were scared to walk home on a daily basis. Scared to get to work on a daily basis.”
“他们表现得很明显。选票上他的名字后面写着‘现任’，”27岁的空军成员杰克·韦斯利说，他出生于安克雷奇并驻扎在那里。他说他投票连任沙利文，因为“目前情况看起来还不错。”在阿拉斯加南部的渔业社区卡西洛夫，45岁的朱迪·菲舍尔说，她没有任何身份混淆地投给了现任者，但她担心他同名者的存在可能会分流选票。“人们必须做好调查，”她说。
“They make it pretty obvious. It says ‘incumbent’ after his name” on the ballot, said Air Force member Jake Wesley, 27, who grew up in Anchorage and is stationed there. He said he voted to re-elect Sullivan because “things seem to be pretty good as is.”In the southern Alaska fishing community of Kasilof, Judy Fischer, 45, said she voted for the incumbent without any identity confusion, but she worried that the presence of his namesake could sap votes. “People have to do their research,” she said.
“我看到很多我不喜欢的事情，涉及西班牙裔人，以及ICE目前所做的一切，”她说，指的是移民与海关执法局。
"I see a lot of things that I don't like with Hispanic people, with all the things that ICE has been doing right now," she said, referring to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
特朗普严格的移民执法议程促使厨师维克多·加西亚（54岁）投下了他的票。“就是他们做事的方式。这是最重要的，”他说。
Trump's strict immigration enforcement agenda drove the vote of cook Victor Garcia, 54. "It's the way they do it. That's the most important," he said.