民主党周二在美国国会选举中夺得多数席位，这一胜利在州一级得到了复制，该党在至少五个州翻转了共和党把持的州长职位，并有望在至少六个州全面掌控州政府。
Nov 4 - Democrats' takeover of the US Congress on Tuesday was replicated at the state level, with the party flipping Republican-held governors' offices in at least five states and poised to seize full control of state government in at least six more.
民主党的胜利意味着该党多年来首次将控制大多数州长职位，其中包括得克萨斯州等传统保守派大本营，民主党人吉娜·伊诺霍萨击败资金雄厚的共和党州长格雷格·阿博特，成为该州历史上首位拉丁裔州长。
Democratic victories mean the party, for the first time in years, will control a majority of the governorships, including traditional conservative strongholds such as Texas, where Democrat Gina Hinojosa defeated well-financed Republican Governor Greg Abbott to become the first Latina governor in the state's history.
胜利不止于州长官邸。民主党候选人在密歇根州、明尼苏达州、宾夕法尼亚州和威斯康星州夺得了州议会两院的控制权，使该党在这些州获得了立法机构和州长办公室的“三权合一”控制权。他们还在佐治亚州、爱荷华州、俄亥俄州和得克萨斯州打破了共和党的“三权合一”局面。
The wins extended beyond governors' mansions. Democratic candidates seized control of both state legislative chambers in Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, giving the party "trifecta" control of the legislature and governor's office in those states. They also broke Republican trifectas in Georgia, Iowa, Ohio and Texas.
据政策专家称，除了让民主党对州法律拥有更多控制权——涉及最低工资、数据中心、堕胎权等热点议题——这些胜利还可能通过改变美国国会选区划分方式、选举管理方式和结果认证方式，影响未来的全国选举。
On top of giving Democrats more control over state laws on minimum wage, data centers, abortion access, and other hot-button issues, the wins could affect future national elections by changing how US congressional districts are drawn, how elections are administered, and how results are certified, according to policy experts.
一些最大且最令人意外的胜利发生在关键摇摆州，这些州对唐纳德·特朗普总统的选举胜利至关重要，且近年来由共和党主导的立法机构重新划分了国会选区边界以利本党。
Some of the biggest and most surprising wins came in battleground states that have been key to President Donald Trump's election victories, and where Republican-led legislatures in recent years redrew congressional district boundaries to favor their party.
在至少三个州——佐治亚州、印第安纳州和俄亥俄州——民主党还击败了现任共和党州务卿：该职位通常负责监督选举管理和结果认证。
In at least three states — Georgia, Indiana and Ohio — Democrats also ousted incumbent Republican secretaries of state: the office that typically oversees election administration and certification of results.
据宾夕法尼亚州立大学麦考特尼民主研究所所长、政治学教授迈克尔·伯克曼称，所有这些结果对未来的美国选举“非常重要”。
All those outcomes are "very significant" for future US elections, according to Michael Berkman, a political science professor and director of Penn State University's McCourtney Institute for Democracy.
他说，在2010年前总统巴拉克·奥巴马的首个中期选举期间，共和党人同样横扫了州级公职，这使他们得以通过选举法、重新划分国会选区，并让本党在一些州对选举的管理方式拥有更大控制权。
He said Republicans won a similar sweep of state-level offices during former President Barack Obama's first midterm election in 2010, which allowed them to pass election laws, redraw congressional districts, and give their party more control over how elections were administered in some states.
“因此这给了民主党人一个真正开始夺回这些的机会，”伯克曼说。
"So this gives Democrats an opportunity to really start to claw that back," Berkman said.
专家表示，新的民主党领导人和议员很可能会试图撤销一些近期主导全国讨论的保守派政策，例如堕胎限制和数据中心激励措施。
The new Democratic leaders and legislators will likely try to undo some conservative policies that have recently dominated the national discourse, such as abortion restrictions and data center incentives, experts said.
但即将上任的民主党人也将带着“大量他们想要推进的自由派立法积压”走马上任，乔治城大学麦考特公共政策学院教授克里斯·沃肖说。
But the incoming Democrats will also take office with "a huge backlog of liberal legislation that they want to do," said Chris Warshaw, a professor at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy.
沃肖说，他们的首要任务很可能会回应选民对负担能力的关切，例如提高最低工资、扩大联邦医疗补助医疗保险计划以及保护劳工权利。
Their top priorities will likely address voters' concerns about affordability, such as raising the minimum wage, expanding the federal Medicaid health insurance program and protecting labor rights, Warshaw said.
在得克萨斯州和佐治亚州，共和党人看来很可能在20多年来首次失去对州议会的控制权，将两州各一个议院的控制权让给民主党人。
In Texas and Georgia, Republicans looked likely to lose control of the state legislatures for the first time in more than 20 years, yielding control over one chamber in each state to Democrats.
“选民已经发出了变革的授权，而他们将会得到变革，”伊诺霍萨在周二晚的胜选演讲中说。
"The voters have delivered a mandate for change, and it is change they will get," Hinojosa said in a victory speech on Tuesday night.
得克萨斯州和佐治亚州的选民还选出了十多年来首位民主党籍总检察长，取代了经常就他们不认同的联邦政策起诉过去民主党总统的共和党现任者。
Texas and Georgia voters also elected Democratic attorneys general for the first time in more than a decade, replacing Republican incumbents who had frequently sued past Democratic presidents over federal policies with which they disagreed.
因此，“那些地方将不再是提起初始诉讼的源泉，而开始成为对特朗普正在做的事情提出挑战的诉讼的源泉，”纽约州立大学布法罗分校政治学副教授吉姆·巴蒂斯塔说。
As a result, "those places will stop being fountains for initial lawsuits, and start being fountains for lawsuits that are challenging things that Trump is doing," said Jim Battista, associate professor of political science at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.