得克萨斯州参议员泰德·克鲁兹（共和党）周三晚间发出严厉警告，称在中期选举中民主党人翻转了得州的一个联邦参议院席位和州长职位后，“得州人将受到伤害”。
Cruz warns Texans will be hurt after blue tsunami Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) issued a stark warning on Wednesday evening after Democrats flipped a Texas Senate seat and the governor’s mansion in the midterm elections.
这位共和党参议员在社交媒体上发布的一份冗长声明中表示，周二席卷该州和全国的“蓝色海啸”将使“得州人遭受伤害”。
lengthy statement shared on social media, the GOP senator said that “Texans will be hurt” by the blue tsunami that swept across the state and country on Tuesday.
他写道：“他们对企业的攻击将使得州成为一个开办或发展小企业吸引力大幅降低的地方。”“如果他们成功阻止所有对人工智能的新投资，得州将变得更像加利福尼亚州。”州众议员詹姆斯·塔拉里科和吉娜·伊诺霍萨在选举日分别当选联邦参议员和得州州长，这是数十年来民主党人首次赢得这两个职位，令孤星州的共和党人遭遇惊人挫败。
“Their assault on business will make Texas a much less attractive place to start or grow a small business,” he wrote. “Texas will become more like California if they succeed in halting all new investment into AI.”State Reps. James Talarico and Gina Hinojosa became the first Democrats elected to the U.S. Senate and Texas governor’s office in decades in a stunning upset for Republicans in the Lone Star State on Election Day.
克鲁兹写道：“得州变蓝了。这是一个难以启齿的句子。但得州，至少今天，是蓝的。就目前而言，我是得州唯一留任的全州范围当选共和党人。这不是我曾想过会说的话。”
“Texas is blue. That is a hard sentence to utter,” Cruz wrote. “But Texas, today at least, is blue. As we sit here today, I am the only statewide elected Republican who remains in Texas. That’s not something I ever thought I would say.”
这位得州共和党人和其他知名共和党领袖，包括特朗普总统，在参议院竞选中支持得州总检察长肯·帕克斯顿（共和党）。据Decision Desk HQ统计，塔拉里科以超过12个百分点的优势击败了共和党提名人。克鲁兹表示，他在周二晚间塔拉里科获胜后与这位民主党胜选者通了话，祝贺他“取得了非常令人印象深刻的胜利”。“那是一次愉快的交谈，我告诉他我期待与他合作，试图造福得州，”他说。
The Texas Republican and other prominent GOP leaders, including President Trump, backed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) in the Senate race. Talarico defeated the Republican nominee by over 12 percentage points, according to Decision Desk HQ Cruz said he spoke with the Democratic victor following his win on Tuesday evening to congratulate him “on his very impressive victory.”“It was a pleasant conversation, and I told him that I looked forward to working with him to try to benefit Texas,” he said.
这位共和党参议员表示，在民主党控制国会两院的未来两年里，他的党派需要做“两件事”：“对抗疯狂”并“重建”。外任共和党得州参议员约翰·科宁周三在《华尔街日报》的一篇评论文章中敦促本党在孤星州和全国范围内失利后，重新聚焦于制胜原则。
The Republican senator said his party will need to do “two things” in the next two years under new Democratic control of both chambers of Congress: “fight the madness” and “rebuild.”Wednesday op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, outgoing GOP Texas Sen. John Cornyn urged his party to refocus on winning principles following their losses in the Lone Star State and nationwide.
“这周的惨败不仅是可以预见的，而且早已被预见到了，”这位共和党人写道，他援引了共和党候选人对选民吸引力不足以及特朗普政府兑现2024年竞选承诺的能力存在短板。
“This week’s beat-down wasn’t only foreseeable, it was foreseen,” the Republican wrote, citing shortcomings in GOP candidates' appeals to voters and the Trump administration’s ability to deliver on 2024 campaign promises.
然而，科宁和克鲁兹均表示乐观，认为共和党将在本周期夺回失给民主党的席位。
However, both Cornyn and Cruz expressed optimism that the GOP will regain the seats lost to Democrats this cycle.
克鲁兹在周三晚间的帖子中写道，他“充满了希望和乐观”。“德克萨斯州将再次变红，”他接着说。“我们并没有突然变成一群吃豆腐、禁枪支、穿芭蕾舞裙的粉红共产主义自由派。那不是我们。德州依然是德州。”
Cruz wrote in his Wednesday evening post that he was “filled with hope and optimism.”“Texas will be red again,” he continued. “We have not suddenly become a bunch of tofu-eating, gun-banning, tutu-wearing pinko commie liberals. That ain’t us. Texas is still Texas.”