民主党在一场作为对唐纳德·特朗普总统公投的大选中，以连党领袖都未曾预期的更大优势夺取了众议院和参议院的控制权。
Democrats seized the House and Senate by wider margins that even party leaders had hoped in a wave election that served as a referendum on President Donald Trump.
民主党众议院候选人拿下了特朗普仅两年前以两位数优势赢得的选区。
Democratic House candidates took districts Trump won by double digits just two years ago.
他们在全国范围内翻转了参议院席位，包括爱荷华州、堪萨斯州、缅因州、俄亥俄州、北卡罗来纳州、南卡罗来纳州和得克萨斯州。密歇根州和阿拉斯加州的激烈竞争尚未宣布结果，民主党有望进一步扩大优势。
They flipped Senate seats nationwide, including in Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas. Competitive races haven’t been called in Michigan and Alaska, where Democrats could run up the score further.
特朗普周三晚间告诉《纽约时报》，他“完全愿意”接受选举结果。
Trump told The New York Times on Wednesday night that he “was absolutely willing” to accept the results of the election.
民主党在南部取得了惊人的胜利。在得克萨斯州，詹姆斯·塔拉里科击败共和党总检察长肯·帕克斯顿，成为自1988年以来首位赢得该州参议员席位的民主党人。民主党人吉娜·伊诺霍萨击败现任共和党州长格雷格·阿博特，成为自安·理查兹1990年以来首位入主州长官邸的民主党人。
Democrats racked up stunning victories across the South. In Texas, James Talarico defeated Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton to become the first Democrat to win a Senate seat in the state since 1988. Democrat Gina Hinojosa toppled incumbent Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, becoming the first Democrat to take the governor’s mansion since Ann Richards in 1990.
北卡罗来纳州州长罗伊·库珀在该州赢得了一个参议员席位，实现了民主党人18年来未能完成的壮举。在南卡罗来纳州，安妮·安德鲁斯击败达琳·格雷厄姆，赢得了原由林赛·格雷厄姆持有的席位。参议员乔恩·奥索夫在佐治亚州成功连任。
Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina won a Senate seat in his state, pulling off what no Democrat has there in 18 years. In South Carolina, Annie Andrews defeated Darline Graham, winning the seat formerly held by Lindsey Graham. Sen. Jon Ossoff held onto his seat in Georgia.
民主党在中西部也取得了胜利。亚当·汉密尔顿在堪萨斯州击败共和党参议员罗杰·马歇尔，终结了民主党在该州长达94年的胜选干旱。在爱荷华州，乔什·图雷克击败众议员阿什利·欣森，填补了即将卸任的共和党参议员乔尼·恩斯特留下的空缺。在俄亥俄州，谢罗德·布朗击败共和党参议员乔恩·休斯特。
Democrats scored victories across the Midwest, too. Adam Hamilton defeated Republican Sen. Roger Marshall in Kansas, overcoming a 94-year drought for Democrats in the state. In Iowa, Josh Turek beat Rep. Ashley Hinson to fill retiring Republican Sen. Joni Ernst’s seat. In Ohio, Sherrod Brown unseated Republican Sen. Jon Husted.
克里斯·帕帕斯在新罕布什尔州为民主党守住了即将卸任的参议员珍妮·沙欣的席位。
Chris Pappas held retiring Sen. Jeanne Shaheen’s seat for Democrats in New Hampshire.
共和党缅因州参议员苏珊·科林斯向其民主党对手特洛伊·杰克逊认输。阿拉斯加州的投票站将开放至美东时间凌晨1点。
Republican Maine Sen. Susan Collins conceded to her Democratic opponent, Troy Jackson. Polls in Alaska remain open until 1 am EST.
共和党守住了佛罗里达州的一个参议院席位。据报道，特朗普在白宫观看开票结果，在大多数投票站尚未关闭前就批评福克斯新闻的报道。特朗普在社交媒体发文称，如果他出现在选票上，共和党本会度过一个更好的夜晚。
Republicans held onto a Senate seat in Florida. Trump, reportedly watching returns from the White House, criticized Fox News coverage before most polls had closed. In a social media post Trump said Republicans would have had a better night if he’d been on the ballot.
民主党在红州赢得了其他州长选举。基莎·兰斯·博托姆斯在佐治亚州州长选举中获胜，这是28年来民主党首次赢得该州州长——如果奥索夫决定角逐2028年总统大选，这是一个积极信号，因为她将任命他的继任者。
Democrats won other gubernatorial races in red states. Keisha Lance Bottoms won the gubernatorial race in Georgia, a first for a Democrat in 28 years — a positive sign for Ossoff if he decides to pursue a 2028 presidential bid, since she would appoint his successor.
民主党人艾米·阿克顿击败了获得特朗普背书的共和党人维韦克·拉马斯瓦米，成为俄亥俄州下一任州长。拉马斯瓦米在选战末段播放了一则针对阿克顿的攻击性广告，广告中出现了她疏远的母亲；当年阿克顿指控丈夫强奸她时，这位母亲曾支持丈夫。
Democrat Amy Acton defeated Republican Vivek Ramaswamy, endorsed by Trump, to become the next governor of Ohio. Ramaswamy aired a late attack ad against Acton featuring her estranged mother, who backed her husband when Acton accused him of rape as a child.
共和党原本希望今年能击败奥索夫，但奥索夫轻松击败共和党对手、众议员迈克·柯林斯，成功连任。帕帕斯战胜了前共和党参议员约翰·苏努努，在另一场共和党原本希望有竞争力的选赛中获胜。在北卡罗来纳州，库珀为民主党赢得了当晚首个翻盘席位。
Ossoff, who Republicans had hoped to unseat this year, easily blew past GOP rival Rep. Mike Collins to win re-election. Pappas prevailed over former GOP Sen. John Sununu in another race that Republicans had initially hoped to contest. In North Carolina, Cooper scored the party’s first pickup of the night.
众议院共和党人在佛罗里达州也陷入困境，三个原本划定为选出共和党人的席位目前已由民主党人赢得——众议员贾里德·莫斯科维茨和凯西·卡斯特成功连任，以及当选众议员皮娅·丹迪亚获胜。共和党最初重新划分选区，试图新增四个众议院席位。
House Republicans are also faltering in Florida, where three seats drawn to elect Republicans have so far gone to Democrats — re-elections for Reps. Jared Moskowitz and Kathy Castor, plus a victory for Rep.-elect Pia Dandiya. The GOP initially redistricted to try to gain four new House seats.
到目前为止，民主党在周二晚间赢得的佛罗里达州三个国会选区，在2024年大选中都曾支持特朗普。在特朗普敦促下，佛罗里达州共和党州长罗恩·德桑蒂斯已警告，由于选民对伊朗战争感到愤怒，其党正在失去部分优势。
All three of the Florida districts that Democrats have won so far on Tuesday night backed Trump in 2024. Urged to embark on mid-decade redistricting by Trump, Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis has warned that his party was losing some of its advantages, driven by voter anger about the war in Iran.
随着夜晚对民主党越来越有利，我开始听到他们发问：他们是否建立了一个新的全国性多数派？他们是否彻底驱逐了“让美国再次伟大”（MAGA）运动？随后他们提醒自己：正是这种想法让共和党陷入了这场困境。两次特朗普胜选，加上2020年失败却让他的大部分联盟保持完整，使许多保守派确信他们已经建立了一个新的政党体系，将所有种族的工人阶级选民、支撑地方党务运转的社会保守派，以及在1月6日事件后拒绝特朗普却在2024年又跑回来的商界精英结合在了一起。谁能击败这样的联盟？
As the night got better and better for Democrats, I started to hear them ask: Had they built a new national majority? Had they banished MAGA for good? Then they reminded themselves: Thinking like that is what got Republicans into this mess. Two Trump victories, and a 2020 loss that kept most of his coalition intact, convinced many conservatives that they had built a new party system that combined working class voters of all races, the social conservatives who made their local parties run, and the business community that rejected Trump after Jan. 6 but came running back in 2024. Who could beat that?
现在我们知道了。周二，特朗普联盟瓦解了，总统根本无法让自己“出现在选票上”，也无法动员那些不太可能投票的选民。早期投票期间就有大量迹象——尤其是在北卡罗来纳州，这个“杀戮战场”里，共和党失去了经过精心杰利蝾螈划分、本不可能输掉的众议院和州议会席位。（在一张旨在选出三名民主党人的地图上，该党有望赢得九个席位。）
Well, now we know. The Trump coalition came apart on Tuesday, with the president decisively unable to put himself “on the ballot” and turn out his unlikely voters. Plenty of signs were there during early voting – especially in North Carolina, a killing field where Republicans lost House and state legislative seats that were gerrymandered to be impossible to lose. (On a map drawn to elect three Democrats, the party is likely to win nine seats.)
民主党并未假装解决了所有本党问题。但他们确实从特朗普第一任期中吸取了教训，也从他们误判特朗普只是个偶然现象的错误中吸取了教训。他们没有向左转、押注更兴奋的基本盘能压倒MAGA，而是提名了愿意打破左翼正统的候选人——爱荷华州当选参议员乔什·图雷克在性别问题上采取了更保守的立场，得克萨斯州当选参议员詹姆斯·塔拉里科成为了能源行业的推崇者。
Democrats didn’t pretend that they had solved all their parties’ problems. But they did learn from Trump’s first term, and the way they miscalculated what a fluke he was. Instead of moving to the left, betting that a more excited base could overwhelm MAGA, they nominated candidates who were willing to break with left-wing orthodoxy – Iowa Sen.-elect Josh Turek adopting a more conservative position on gender, Texas Sen.-elect James Talarico becoming a booster of the energy industry.
他们的基本盘对特朗普极其愤怒，因此相对容易动员。说服工作更难，但他们做到了；民主党夺回了俄亥俄州东北部、爱荷华州东部、得克萨斯州的里奥格兰德河谷，甚至佛罗里达州似乎正远离该党的部分地区。
Their base was so furious at Trump that it was relatively easy to turn out. Persuasion was harder, but they got there; Democrats won back northeast Ohio, eastern Iowa, Texas’s Rio Grande Valley, and even parts of Florida that seemed to be racing away from their party.
共和党也无法改变选民结构。特朗普显然不在选票上——但这是选民首次不再将经济管理良好、让美国免于战争归功于特朗普。拜登执政期间最吸睛的共和党车贴标语是“我想要一些刻薄的推文和便宜的汽油”。没有便宜汽油，选民就不愿再忍受特朗普的AI梗图、关于男性屁股的玩笑，以及在阿灵顿建凯旋门的执念。
And Republicans couldn’t change the electorate. Trump wasn’t on the ballot, obviously – but for the first time, voters did not credit Trump with good management of the economy or with keeping America out of wars. The snazziest GOP bumper sticker of the Biden years was “I’d take some mean tweets and cheap gas right now.”Without cheap gas, voters weren’t willing to put up with Trump’s AI memes, jokes about men’s asses, and obsession with building a triumphant arch in Arlington.
最后，共和党遭遇了想象力的匮乏。任何报道过2016年大选的记者都记得，当被告知特朗普可能赢得中西部时，民主党人表现出的难以置信、甚至愤怒。这被认为不可能，直到它发生了。而被告知得克萨斯州可能在2014、2016、2018、2020和2022年翻蓝的共和党人，无法想象詹姆斯·塔拉里科——那个“上帝是非二元性别”的人——能打破这个魔咒。
Finally, Republicans had a failure of imagination. Any reporter who covered the 2016 election remembers the disbelief, even anger, from Democrats who were told that Trump could win the Midwest. It was impossible, until it happened. And Republicans who’d been told that Texas could flip in 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2022 could not imagine James Talarico – the “God is nonbinary” guy? – breaking the curse.
塔拉里科有望带领民主党横扫得克萨斯州全州范围的公职，击败该州历史上一些最有权势的政治家。民主党守住了2016年至2020年间在郊区取得的增益，随后又赢回了许多自巴拉克·奥巴马以来从未有民主党人获胜的地区。他们对特朗普的恐惧程度，比2016年大选前那一周以来的任何时候都要低。
Talarico is on track to lead a Democratic sweep of Texas statewide offices, cutting down some of the most powerful politicians in the state’s history. Democrats held onto the suburban gains they made from 2016 to 2020, then won back many of the place that no Democrat had won since Barack Obama. They are less afraid of Trump than of any time since the week before the 2016 election.