得克萨斯州沃思堡，11月5日电 当杰罗尼莫·佩雷斯驱车来到得克萨斯州南沃思堡的沃思海茨社区中心投票时，脑海里只有一件事：一位一周前刚被驱逐出境的朋友。
FORT WORTH, TEXAS, Nov 5 - When Geronimo Perez pulled up to vote at the Worth Heights Community Center in South Fort Worth, Texas, one thing was on his mind: a friend who had been deported just a week earlier.
56岁的佩雷斯在今年的中期选举中为民主党全线候选人投了票。他抱怨生活成本高企，但表示唐纳德·特朗普总统激进的移民执法议程促使他支持民主党籍州众议员吉娜·伊诺霍萨竞选州长，以及詹姆斯·塔拉里科竞选联邦参议员。
Perez, 56, cast his ballot for the entire Democratic ticket in this year's midterm elections. He lamented the high cost of living, but said President Donald Trump's aggressive immigration enforcement agenda drove him to support Democratic state representatives Gina Hinojosa for governor and James Talarico for US Senate.
“我代表了我的家庭、我的文化，”佩雷斯说。“美国是由不同肤色的移民组成的。”佩雷斯的选票反映了全美数百万拉美裔选民更广泛的转变，从得克萨斯州边境县、堪萨斯州西南部的肉类加工小镇，到迈阿密-戴德县、科罗拉多州和亚利桑那州。在协助推动共和党在近期选举中获胜后，许多拉美裔选民重新转向民主党。
"I represented my family, my culture," said Perez. "The United States is made up of immigrants of different colors." Perez's vote reflected a broader shift among millions of Latino voters across the country, from the border counties of Texas and the meatpacking towns of southwest Kansas to Miami-Dade, Colorado and Arizona. After helping fuel Republican gains in recent elections, many swung back toward Democrats.
物价负担能力仍是一大担忧，但在选举日投票站外，接受路透社采访的拉美裔选民反复提到移民问题。
Affordability remained a major concern, but outside polling places on Election Day immigration was mentioned repeatedly in Reuters interviews with Latino voters.
然而在全国范围内，经济仍是西班牙裔选民最关心的议题。SSRS进行的出口民调显示，45%的人将经济列为国家面临的首要问题。根据数据，近65%的拉美裔选民投票给联邦众议院候选人。
Nationally, however, the economy remained the dominant issue among Hispanic voters. In exit polling conducted by SSRS, 45% named the economy as the country's top issue. Nearly 65% of Latinos voted for US House candidates, according to the data.
此外，全美拉美裔选民投票人数创纪录，高达1450万，美国最大的拉美裔民权组织“团结美国”首席执行官珍妮特·穆尔吉亚说。
Additionally, record numbers of Latinos voted nationwide, reaching as many as 14.5 million, said Janet Murguía, CEO of UnidosUS, the largest US Latino civil rights organization.
“拉美裔选民传递了一个明确信息，表达了他们对国家发展方向的愤怒和担忧，”她说。
“Latino voters sent a clear message about their anger and concern about the direction of our country,” she said.
拉美裔选民的这一转变是更广泛多种族联盟的一部分，该联盟推动民主党重掌大权，助力该党在从海岸到海岸的胜利中夺回国会两院控制权。
That shift among Latino voters was part of a broader multiracial coalition that propelled Democrats back to power, helping the party capture both chambers of Congress in victories stretching from coast to coast.
在已基本完成计票的64个拉美裔占多数且有参议院竞选的县中，共和党的得票率较2024年下降了14个百分点，跌幅超过全国趋势，这是路透社对县级投票趋势分析得出的结论。在得克萨斯州伊达尔戈县，共和党支持率下降约25个百分点；在佛罗里达州迈阿密-戴德县——特朗普2024年曾赢下该县——下降了10个百分点。
Across the 64 majority-Latino counties with Senate races that were mostly counted, Republicans lost 14 points off their 2024 share, outpacing national trends, according to a Reuters analysis of county-level voting trends. In Hidalgo County, Texas, support for Republicans dropped about 25 points, and in Miami-Dade, Florida — a county Trump won in 2024 — it fell 10 points.
这一图景在得克萨斯州表现得最为清晰，希诺霍萨击败了连任三届的共和党州长格雷格·阿博特，后者在得克萨斯州政坛任职已超过30年。然而，希诺霍萨的“拉美裔选民策略”很简单：把这个全美摇摆幅度最大的选民群体之一，当作与非拉美裔选民没有区别来对待。
Nowhere was that picture clearer than in Texas, where Hinojosa defeated three-term Republican Governor Greg Abbott, who has served in Texas state politics for more than 30 years. Yet, Hinojosa's "Latino voter strategy" was simple: Treat the electorate, one of the swingiest in the country, as if they're no different from non-Latino voters.
根据最新得票总数，她以约6.5个百分点的优势击败阿博特，得票率为52.5%对46%。
She defeated Abbott by about 6.5 percentage points, 52.5% to 46%, according to the most recent vote totals.
她在1月告诉路透社，她向拉美裔德州选民传达的信息将与向非拉美裔选民传达的相同——只是用西班牙语表达。她在7月于奥斯汀的竞选总部接受采访时表示，拉美裔女性担任得州州长不应被视为罕见。
Her message to Latino Texans would be the same as to non-Latinos — she would just say it in Spanish, she told Reuters in January. And in an interview at her Austin-based campaign headquarters in July, she said it shouldn't be odd to have a Latina as governor of Texas.
她不会孤军奋战：民主党人哈维尔·贝塞拉——曾在乔·拜登总统麾下担任卫生与公众服务部长——在加利福尼亚州赢得了州长选举。这将是现代历史上首次，人口最多的两个州——加利福尼亚州和得克萨斯州——同时由拉美裔州长领导。
She won't be alone: Democrat Xavier Becerra, who was health and human services secretary under President Joe Biden, won his gubernatorial race in California. It will be the first time in modern history that the two most populous states, California and Texas, will both be led by Latino governors at the same time.
西班牙语媒体巨头TelevisaUnivision首席执行官丹尼尔·阿莱格雷表示，在得克萨斯州，塔拉里科在整个竞选期间努力与全州的拉美裔选民接触。他说，这是塔拉里科获胜的关键之一。
In Texas, Talarico made an effort to engage with Latino voters across the state throughout his campaign, said Daniel Alegre, CEO of Spanish-language media giant TelevisaUnivision. He said that was one of the keys to Talarico's victory.
“竞选团队必须认识到这一点，不能再沿用2014年或2016年的方法论；那已经行不通了，”他说。
"It's up to the campaigns to realize this and not fall into 2014 or 2016 methodology; that doesn't work anymore," he said.
突袭行动助推选民登记 在堪萨斯州西南部，三个原本坚定支持共和党的县在美国参议院竞选中转为支持民主党，此前移民与海关执法局（ICE）突袭了以肉类加工厂为主导、劳动力以移民为主的城镇。
RAIDS HELP DRIVE VOTER REGISTRATIONS In southwest Kansas, three solidly red counties turned blue in the US Senate race following ICE raids on towns dominated by meatpacking plants staffed by a largely immigrant workforce.
州政府官员表示，移民和海关执法局（ICE）探员于9月突袭了福特县、芬尼县和苏厄德县，展开了一次拘留100多人的行动。
ICE agents descended on Ford, Finney and Seward counties in September for an operation that detained more than 100 people, state officials said.
据畜牧业协会称，此次突袭行动导致工厂运营放缓，并延误了数千头牛的运输，而当时美国牛肉价格正处于历史高位。
The raids slowed operations at plants and delayed shipments of thousands of cattle, according to livestock associations, at a time of record high beef prices in the United States.
路透社在突袭行动一周后走访当地时发现，当地组织者抓住了这一时机，据威奇托州立大学研究项目艾克实验室的数据，这三个县的选民登记增幅位列全州前五。
When Reuters visited a week after the raids, local organizers had seized the moment and, as a result, those three counties saw among the five highest increases in voter registrations in the state, according to data from the IKE Lab, a research project of Wichita State University.
“你能感觉到人们在愤怒，”当地非营利组织“新边疆”的社区组织者安吉丽卡·普拉塔说。该组织专注于种族和经济不平等问题。
“You can tell people are angry,” said Angelica Plata, a community organizer with New Frontiers, a local non-profit focused on racial and economic inequities.
“投票拉丁裔”执行主任比阿特丽斯·洛佩斯表示，这种愤怒情绪全年都显而易见。该组织是一家致力于联系和动员拉丁裔选民的全美性机构。
That anger has been palpable all year, said Beatriz Lopez, executive director of Voto Latino, a national organization that works to and mobilize Latino voters.
她说，接下来的挑战是不能把这一选民群体视为理所当然，因为没有任何一个政党能牢牢掌控拉丁裔选民。
The next challenge, she said, is to not take this electorate for granted, because no party has a hold on Latinos.
“如果他们想在2028年有所作为，如果他们想保持这一势头，如果他们想取得这些重大胜利，就投资于我们，投资于拉丁裔选票。”路透社
"If they want to in 2028, if they want to sustain this momentum, if they want these big wins, invest in us, invest in the Latino vote." REUTERS