华盛顿——周二晚间，一场蓝色浪潮将众议院和参议院交到了民主党手中，冲垮了曾经稳如磐石的共和党席位，并立即引发了相互指责以及为与国会交锋所做的准备。
WASHINGTON — A blue tsunami delivered Democrats the House of Representatives and the Senate Tuesday night, sweeping away once-safe Republican seats and unleashing immediate finger-pointing and preparations for fights with Congress.
“美国回来了，”杰弗里斯说。舒默补充说，民主党人“克服重重困难”赢得了胜利，“解脱就在眼前”。特朗普总统曾敦促选民当作他本人也在选票上一样投票，但他遭到了否定——美联社的出口民调显示，62%的选民将物价上涨归咎于他的政策，71%的选民表示国会必须采取更多行动来制衡总统。
“America is back,” Jeffries said. Schumer added that the Dems had won “against all odds” and that “relief was on the way.”President Trump, who had urged voters to act as if he were on the ballot, was repudiated with an Associated Press exit poll showing that 62% of voters blamed his policies for higher prices and 71% saying Congress must do more to check the president.
“民主党人干得不错，”他在选后打给福克斯新闻的电话中说，并承诺在跛脚鸭任期及之后与对方跨党派合作。“他们打得很拼。”“我认为其中一部分原因是伊朗，”他说，并将更多责任归于这场冲突对能源价格产生的后续影响，而非最初发动战争的决定。
“The Democrats did a good job,” he told Fox News in a post-election phone call, pledging to work across the aisle during the lame-duck term and beyond. “They fought hard.”“I think a part of it was Iran,” he said, placing more responsibility on the conflict’s downstream effects on energy prices than the decision to launch the war in the first place.
“人们认同我在伊朗问题上的做法，但他们可能真的不愿意承受汽油价格上涨的短期后果。我理解这一点。我不同意这种看法，”特朗普还说。更多关于2026年中期选举的报道：特朗普还坚称，他不会让政府中再有更多成员离职。“这跟我的内阁毫无关系，”他补充说。
“People agree with what I’m doing on Iran, but they really probably weren’t willing to do the short-term consequence of paying more for gasoline. I understand that. I don’t agree with it,” Trump also said. More coverage of the 2026 midterm elections: Trump also insisted that he wouldn’t be letting any more members of his administration go. “It had nothing to do with my Cabinet,” he added.
这一结果将使特朗普在任期的最后两年深陷调查之中，确保他的立法议程被阻，并使确认新的内阁部长和法官——包括最高法院法官——变得极其困难。
The outcome will mire Trump in investigations for his final two years in office, ensure his legislative agenda is blocked and make it incredibly difficult to confirm new Cabinet secretaries and judges, including to the Supreme Court.
总统的许多盟友将矛头指向伊朗战争，这场战争导致能源价格上涨、通胀和利率上升，而白宫则归咎于“候选人素质”，尽管许多共和党候选人是由特朗普亲自挑选的。这是自2006年以来，首次由在野党赢回两院的中期选举。
Many of the president’s allies blamed the Iran war, which caused higher energy prices, inflation and interest rates, while the White House blamed “candidate quality,” even though many Republican candidates were hand-picked by Trump. It’s the first midterm election since 2006 that a party out of power has won back both chambers.
由于计票缓慢，包括采用排序选择投票制的阿拉斯加参议院选举，这场溃败的最终规模尚不清楚。
The final scale of the wipeout was not immediately clear due to slow vote-counting, including in the Alaska Senate race, which has ranked-choice voting.
周二的横扫还实现了民主党人数十年来怀有的梦想，包括将深红州得克萨斯和堪萨斯的参议院席位翻蓝，以及终结共和党在俄亥俄州和得克萨斯州的州长职位——在得克萨斯州，三届州长格雷格·阿博特的落败是当晚最令人震惊的结果之一。
Tuesday’s sweep also realized dreams Democrats have held for decades, including turning Senate seats in deep-red Texas and Kansas blue, as well as ending Republican governorships in Ohio and Texas, where three-term Gov. Greg Abbott’s loss was one of the most shocking of the night.
特朗普迅速在Truth Social上发帖，指出本轮选举中他并非选民的首要关注对象。
Trump was quick to take to Truth Social to note that he hadn’t been top of mind for voters this cycle.
“我不在选票上，如果我在，我们会以压倒性优势获胜！”他在周二晚间发帖写道——尽管不到两周前他还在艾奥瓦州的一场集会上告诉共和党人“假装我在选票上”。但他支持的几位候选人确实出现在了选票上，比如南卡罗来纳州参议院候选人达琳·格雷厄姆——已故参议员林赛·格雷厄姆（共和党-南卡罗来纳州）的妹妹，以及得克萨斯州参议院候选人、现任该州总检察长的肯·帕克斯顿。
“I wasn’t on the Ballot and if I was, we would have won IN A LANDSLIDE!” he posted late Tuesday — despite telling Republicans in Iowa at a rally less than two weeks ago to “pretend I’m on the ballot.”But several of his favored candidates like South Carolina Senate hopeful Darline Graham, sister of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton, currently serving as the state’s attorney general, were both on the ballot.
“我别无选择，”特朗普还对福克斯新闻说，并补充称参议员约翰·科宁（共和党-得克萨斯州）在“时髦”的时候也曾“拍我的马屁”。
“I had no choice,” Trump also told Fox News, adding that Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) “kissed my ass” when it was “fashionable” to do so as well.
总统在中期选举结果出炉前曾对《华盛顿邮报》的“空军一号播客”表示，他准备在2026年之后必要时成为“否决先生”。“他们会把东西送上来。你否决掉，”他解释道。
The president had prefaced the midterm results by telling The Post’s “Pod Force One” podcast that he was ready to become “Mr. Veto” if needed after 2026. “They’ll be sending stuff up. You veto it,” he explained.
“最终，在经历一两个月的全部否决之后，他们只是在浪费[时间]，他们过来，你达成一笔交易。我认为那可能会发生，但希望我们不必为此担心。”
“And eventually, after a month or two of getting all vetoed, they’re just wasting [time], they come over, and you make a deal. I think that probably would happen, but hopefully we don’t have to worry about that.”
但即将上任的众议院监督委员会主席对因周二失利而惊慌失措的共和党和特朗普盟友的回应只有两个字：“找律师。”这一警告发出之际，特朗普的亲信们正是这么做的，为计划中对涉嫌腐败以及被视为有利于第一家庭的商业往来展开的调查做准备。
But the incoming chairman of the House Oversight Committee had a two-word response to the GOP and Trump allies reeling from Tuesday’s losses: “LAWYER UP.”The warning came as people close to Trump have been doing just that in preparation for planned investigations into alleged corruption and business dealings seen as favorable to the first family.
特朗普在中期选举前的支持率处于历史低位，原因是对生活成本的担忧，如汽油和食品价格上涨。美国人的许多不满情绪源于对伊朗战争的看法。
Trump entered the midterms with historically low approval ratings, fueled by cost-of-living concerns such as rising gas and food prices. Much of Americans’ frustration has been driven by perceptions of the Iran war.
中东冲突也在周二晚上引发了共和党内部的内讧，党内领导人试图为民主党的惨败寻找替罪羊。
The Middle East conflict also drove Republican infighting on Tuesday night, as party leaders looked for someone to blame for the Democratic drubbing.
“我们因为伊朗而被摧毁，”一位共和党高级策略师说。“是伊朗导致汽油和柴油价格飞涨——而不是关税。”“太多人沉默地坐着，甚至更糟的是，误导总统发动了一场没有现实退出方案的战争，”一位特朗普的政治顾问补充道。其他人则指责招募的候选人素质不佳。
“We got destroyed because of Iran,” said one top Republican strategist. “Iran is what caused gas prices and diesel prices to skyrocket — not tariffs.”“Too many people sat silently, or even worse, misled the president into a war without a realistic exit,” added a Trump political adviser. Others blamed the poor quality of candidates that had been recruited.
“说实话，这个周期的大多数共和党候选人都令人乏味、懒惰，且沟通能力完全无效。我对其中一些结果并不太感到惊讶，”特朗普顾问亚历克斯·布鲁塞维茨在社交媒体上发帖写道。众议院议长迈克·约翰逊（共和党-路易斯安那州）在11月3日之前就承认他的政党面临历史性的逆风，周二投票结果出炉时他对记者说，在共和党控制白宫和国会两院的情况下，民主党获胜“有很多原因”。
“Tbh most Republican candidates this cycle were uninspiring, lazy, and thoroughly ineffective communicators. I’m not all that surprised by some of these outcomes,” posted Trump adviser Alex Bruesewitz on House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who acknowledged the historic headwinds his party was facing before Nov. 3, told reporters as voting results came in Tuesday that “there’s a lot of reasons” for the Democratic victory with the GOP trifecta in place.
“从选举的第一天起，我们就知道，要保住众议院并维持我们的多数地位，我们必须打破一个多世纪以来的中期选举历史，”约翰逊说。
“From the first day of this election, we knew that to keep the House and sustain our majority, we would have to defy more than a century of midterm history,” Johnson said.
“在90年里，只有两次出现现任总统在第一个两年周期为其政党赢得或保住席位的情况，”他补充道。“这非常、非常难以克服，而看起来历史将得以保持。”
“It’s only happened twice in 90 years that a sitting president has picked up or held seats for his party in that first two-year cycle,” he added. “It’s very, very difficult to overcome, and it looks like history will be kept.”