民主党此次胜选的幅度——在一些选战中，该党翻转了特朗普仅仅两年前以两位数优势赢下的席位——标志着一个历史性的夜晚，超出了该党最高的期望。
The scale of victory for Democrats—in some races, the party flipped seats that Trump won by double digits just two years ago—marked a historic night that exceeded the party's highest expectations.
民主党在得克萨斯州取得了可以说是最大的逆转，詹姆斯·塔拉里科击败了丑闻缠身的共和党州总检察长肯·帕克斯顿，吉娜·伊诺霍萨击败格雷格·阿博特赢得州长职位，尽管亿万富翁埃隆·马斯克为共和党人花费了数以百万计、数以百万计的美元。自1994年以来，还没有民主党人赢得过全州席位的选举。
Democrats pulled off arguably the greatest upset in Texas, where James Talarico defeated scandal-plagued Republican state attorney general Ken Paxton and Gina Hinojosa defeated Greg Abbott for the governorship, despite the millions and millions of dollars spent by billionaire Elon Musk on behalf of the Republicans. No Democrat had won a statewide seat election since 1994.
据美联社报道，民主党在选举之夜还拿下了其他关键的参议院选战，包括堪萨斯州、南卡罗来纳州、艾奥瓦州和北卡罗来纳州，同时保住了佐治亚州和新罕布什尔州的席位。
Democrats also seized other critical Senate races on election night, including in Kansas, South Carolina, Iowa, and North Carolina, while retaining control of seats in Georgia and New Hampshire, according to the Associated Press.
在白宫，震惊的特朗普政府官员告诉《连线》杂志，伊朗战争带来的高油价和生活成本上升是共和党大范围失利的主要原因。
At the White House, stunned Trump officials tell WIRED that the high gas prices and increased cost of living brought on by the Iran war were the principal reasons for widespread GOP losses.
“如果今晚对共和党来说有什么好处的话，那就是再也不会有共和党总统去听马克·莱文和马克·泰森这种蠢货的话了，”一位接近白宫的消息人士在谈到这两位曾敦促特朗普延长伊朗战争的评论员时说。
“If any good comes out of tonight for the Republican party, it’s that no Republican president will ever listen to imbeciles like Mark Levin and Marc Thiessen again,” one source close to the White House said of two commentators who had urged Trump to prolong the Iran war.
出口民调显示，2024年特朗普联盟的其他部分出现了大规模倒戈，这表明失利的原因不止于此——随着政府推行残酷且不受欢迎的移民政策，拉丁裔选民转向了民主党。
Exit polling showing massive defections from other parts of the 2024 Trump coalition show there was more to the losses than that, with Latino voters turning to Democrats as the administration pursued brutal and unpopular immigration policies.
一些获准匿名坦率发言的官员私下将责任归咎于总统，认为是他将国家带入中东冲突，他错误地以为这场冲突会在几周内结束，而如今却看不到明确的终点。
Some officials, who were granted anonymity to speak candidly, privately laid the blame at the feet of the president for taking the nation into the Middle East conflict, which he wrongly assumed would be over in a matter of weeks and has continued with no clear end in sight.
“白宫官员在声明中说，‘特朗普总统并未出现在选票上，而已证实，特朗普的选民只有在他出现在选票上时才会出现，’即便特朗普在巡回演讲中恳求他的支持者假装他在选票上。”
“President Trump was not on the ballot, and it’s proven that Trump voters show up when he is on the ballot,” a White House official said in a statement, even as Trump had implored his base on the trail to pretend that he was on the ballot.
“官员补充说，‘此外，候选人的质量也很重要，特朗普总统在宣传选票上的许多候选人方面做得比这些候选人自己做得更好。’”许多落选的候选人是特朗普亲自挑选的，他迫使德克萨斯州参议员约翰·科尼恩等在任者下台，并支持已故参议员林赛·格雷厄姆的妹妹达琳·格雷厄姆等人，后者在南卡罗来纳州的竞选表现惨淡。
“Also, candidate quality matters, and President Trump did a better job promoting many of the candidates on the ballot than the candidates did themselves,” the official added. Many of the losing candidates were hand-picked by Trump, who forced out incumbents like Texas senator John Cornyn and blessed candidates like Darline Graham, the sister of late senator Lindsey Graham, who ran a dismal campaign in South Carolina.
尽管如此，其他特朗普官员仍在寻找替罪羊，指责一次失败的重新划区努力以及候选人质量。
Still, other Trump officials have cast about for other scapegoats, blaming a failed redistricting effort as well as candidate quality.
共和党今年早些时候启动了一项重新绘制多条国会选区地图的策略，白宫幕僚认为如果特朗普选民投票，这一赌局可能带来10至15个众议院席位的收获。政治学家指出，这一策略的弊端在于，它使得席位更难防守——虽然共和党区增多，但每个区的共和党倾向都减弱了。
Republicans embarked on a strategy earlier this year to redraw numerous congressional maps, as part of a gambit that White House aides thought could yield 10 to 15 House seat pickups if Trump voters turned out. The downside, political scientists pointed out, was that it made seats harder to defend, as while there were more Republican districts, each was less Republican.
选举之夜，这一策略未能产生预期效果。民主党在佛罗里达赢得了至少三个被共和党重新划分的众议院席位，以及北卡罗来纳的一个席位。
On election night, the strategy failed to yield results. Democrats won at least three House seats in Florida that Republicans had redrawn, as well as the seat in North Carolina.
对共和党而言，唯一接近亮点的是佛罗里达的参议院竞选，该竞选在中期选举的最后几天突然变得竞争激烈。最终，阿什莉·穆迪仅仅勉强击退了进步派民主党候选人安吉·尼克松。
The closest thing to a bright spot for Republicans came in the Senate race in Florida, which became abruptly competitive in the final days of the midterm campaign. In the end, Ashley Moody barely fended off progressive candidate Democrat Angie Nixon.
随着众议院和参议院的可能控制格局逐渐明朗，众议院民主党领袖各自结束了当晚的活动，欣然期待对特朗普政府展开积极的监督行动。
As the likely control of the House and Senate became clear, top House Democrats separately ended the night relishing the prospect of mounting an aggressive oversight campaign against the Trump administration.
新任众议院监督委员会主席罗伯特·加西亚发表了两字声明：“请律师”。
Robert Garcia, the incoming chair of the House oversight committee, issued a two-word statement: “Lawyer up.”