缅因州柯林斯败给杰克逊，结束三十年参议员生涯 作为国会中唯一代表新英格兰的共和党人，柯林斯承认在民主党大获全胜的夜晚，她的席位已告失守。
Collins Falls to Jackson in Maine, Ending a Three-Decade Senate Tenure Senator Susan Collins, the sole Republican representing New England in Congress, acknowledged that her seat had been lost on a landslide night for Democrats.
据《纽约时报》预测，缅因州共和党参议员苏珊·柯林斯周三败给了民主党人、前州议员特洛伊·杰克逊，失去了她坚守三十年的席位。这一失败终结了新英格兰地区唯一在任共和党国会议员的从政历程。
Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, lost her seat of three decades on Wednesday to Troy Jackson, a Democratic former state legislator, according to a New York Times projection. The defeat ended the run of the sole sitting Republican member of Congress from New England.
柯林斯曾逆着本州左倾的政治倾向晋升为参议院高层，但最终未能克服选民对特朗普总统的强烈抵触情绪，在一场成为全美最昂贵、竞争最激烈、关注度最高的参议院竞选中落败。
Ms. Collins rose to the upper echelons of the Senate as she defied the leftward tilt of her state, but ultimately could not overcome voters’ strong resistance to President Trump in what became one of the nation’s costliest, hardest-fought and most closely watched Senate races.
这场胜利增强了民主党在参议院的新多数地位，也证实了该党长期以来击败柯林斯的希望，尽管在这场波折重重的竞选中，党内分歧曾一度威胁到他们的机会。
The victory adds to a new Democratic majority in the Senate and vindicated the party’s long-held hopes of ousting Ms. Collins, despite a tumultuous race in which intraparty divisions had threatened to dash their chances.
民主党领导层最初选定的候选人、温和派州长珍妮特·米尔斯未能获得支持并宣布暂停竞选，几个月后，党内初选获胜者格雷厄姆·普拉特纳因性侵指控浮出水面而退选。杰克逊于7月在普拉特纳退选后被选定参选。
Democratic leaders’ initial chosen candidate, the moderate Gov. Janet Mills, failed to gain traction and suspended her campaign, and months later the party primary winner, Graham Platner, dropped out after allegations of sexual assault surfaced. Mr. Jackson entered the race in July, when he was chosen after Mr. Platner’s exit.
身为参议院拨款委员会主席的柯林斯落败，将削弱缅因州在国会的影响力，鉴于她的资历和长期以来作为参议院重大立法中较为温和的共和党关键人物的角色。她为本州争取到了数百亿美元联邦拨款，用途涵盖从消防站到造船业的各个方面。
The defeat of Ms. Collins, the chairwoman of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, will lessen Maine’s influence in Congress given her seniority and longtime role as a more moderate Republican linchpin on much of the significant legislation in the Senate. She has directed tens of billions of dollars in federal funding to her state for everything from fire stations to shipbuilding.
但缅因州对特朗普政府的反对情绪根深蒂固，总统对加拿大加征的关税对该州影响重大，扰乱了一个严重依赖跨境贸易的经济体。
But opposition to the Trump administration ran deep in Maine, where the president’s tariffs on Canada had a major impact and disrupted an economy that relies on a significant amount of commerce crossing the border.
“能在美国参议院为缅因州人民服务，是我一生的荣幸，”她在败选声明中说。“过去30年里，我为我们的州和国家所能取得的一切成就感到自豪。”柯林斯女士一直在与一种看法作斗争，即她过于频繁地向特朗普先生让步，尽管她是参议院中与本党决裂次数最多的共和党人。一些曾多次支持柯林斯女士的缅因州选民表示，他们今年不会再支持她，希望以此对总统及其政策形成更大的阻碍。
“It has been the honor of my life to serve the people of Maine in the United States Senate,” she said in a concession statement. “I’m proud of all I have been able to accomplish for our state and for our country in the past 30 years.”Ms. Collins battled the perception that she too often yielded to Mr. Trump, even though she was the member of her party who broke with him most often in the Senate. Some Maine voters who had repeatedly supported Ms. Collins said they would not do so this year, hoping to create a more formidable obstacle to the president and his policies.
柯林斯女士是今年唯一一位在特朗普先生于2024年输给卡玛拉·哈里斯的州竞选连任的共和党参议员。
Ms. Collins was the only Republican senator running for re-election this year in a state Mr. Trump lost to Kamala Harris in 2024.
杰克逊先生在成为参议院候选人之前曾竞选缅因州州长并在民主党初选中落败，他质疑柯林斯女士的影响力，将她描绘成特朗普先生的帮凶，并承诺要成为特朗普政府的阻碍。两人都来自该州人口较少的北部地区、以农村为主的阿鲁斯图克县。
Mr. Jackson, who lost Maine’s Democratic primary for governor before becoming the Senate nominee, questioned the influence of Ms. Collins, portrayed her as an enabler of Mr. Trump and promised to be an impediment to the Trump administration. Both were from largely rural Aroostook County in the less populated northern reaches of the state.
现年73岁的柯林斯女士曾是参议院助手，并在老布什总统任内担任小企业管理局官员。1994年竞选缅因州州长失败后，她于1996年赢得参议院席位，此后一直保有该席位，尽管民主党人竭力想把她赶下台。她在任期内从未缺席过一次点名投票，这是一项了不起的成就，今年她投下了自己的第1万票。
Ms. Collins, 73, was a former Senate aide and a Small Business Administration official under President George H.W. Bush. After losing a race for Maine governor in 1994, she won the Senate seat in 1996 and has held it since despite furious Democratic efforts to unseat her. She has not missed a roll-call vote in her tenure, a formidable achievement, and this year cast her 10,000th vote.
在参议院，她是一个日益萎缩的中间派共和党人群体中不可或缺的一员，这些人愿意偶尔与本党决裂，近年来在卫生和经济政策以及少数提名人选上与特朗普先生决裂。
In the Senate, she has been an essential part of a shrinking group of more centrist Republicans who were willing to occasionally break with their party and, in recent years, with Mr. Trump on health and economic policy as well as a handful of nominees.
2017年，她是阻止参议院废除《平价医疗法案》的关键一票，并反对国防部长皮特·赫格塞思的提名。她与白宫的决裂激怒了总统，后者经常对她大加抨击。
She was a critical vote to prevent Senate repeal of the Affordable Care Act in 2017 and opposed the nomination of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Her breaks with the White House have angered the president, who often lashed out at her.
但对于民主党人和杰克逊先生来说，这还不够。他们指责她向总统低头，并且只在她的投票无法决定结果时才反对他。支持堕胎权的科林斯女士因2018年投票支持确认布雷特·M·卡瓦诺大法官而受到杰克逊先生和民主党活动人士的特别猛烈抨击，卡瓦诺后来加入了最高法院推翻罗诉韦德案的多数意见。
But to Democrats and Mr. Jackson, it was not enough. They accused her of bowing to the president and opposing him only when her vote would not seal the outcome. Ms. Collins, who supports abortion rights, came under particularly heavy fire from Mr. Jackson and Democratic activists for her vote in 2018 to confirm Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, who later joined a Supreme Court majority in overturning Roe v. Wade.
卡尔·赫尔斯是《纽约时报》的首席驻华盛顿记者，主要报道国会及全国政治竞选和议题。他在美国首都从事报道已有近四十年经验。
Carl Hulse is the chief Washington correspondent for The Times, primarily writing about Congress and national political races and issues. He has nearly four decades of experience reporting in the nation’s capital.