前议长纽特·金里奇表示，共和党在周二选举中的惨败“在很大程度上削弱了”JD·万斯预计参加2028年总统竞选的光环，并使共和党下一选举周期的总统初选“完全开放”。“共和党败选的规模如此之大，使得共和党总统候选人提名的角逐完全开放，”金里奇周三晚在社交媒体平台X上发文写道。“如果政府赢得了一场大胜，副总统JD·万斯就会有充分的理由成为无可争议的提名人，”金里奇说。
Former Speaker Newt Gingrich says the massive Republican defeat in Tuesday’s elections takes “a good bit of the luster” off JD Vance’s expected candidacy for president in 2028 and leaves the GOP presidential primary in the next election cycle “wide open.”“The scale of the Republican defeat is so great that it makes the race for the GOP presidential nomination wide open,” Gingrich posted on X, the social media site late Wednesday. “If the administration had won a big victory, Vice President JD Vance would have had an enormous argument to be the inevitable nominee,” Gingrich said.
“现在，随着这种慢吞吞的策略在伊朗搞砸了，加上他为维韦克·拉马斯瓦米那则可怕、不人道的、让其对手的母亲攻击自己女儿的广告辩护，光环已经褪去了不少，”他辩称。万斯周三将共和党在众多州长、参议院和众议院选举中惨败的原因归咎于与伊朗的战争。“我们失败的原因是这场战争。总统本人昨晚也这么说了，”万斯在社交媒体帖子中写道。
“Now, with this go-slow strategy blowing up in Iran and his defense of Vivek Ramaswamy’s horrible, inhumane ad featuring his opponent’s mother attacking her own daughter, a good bit of luster has come off the bloom,” he argued. Vance on Wednesday blamed the war with Iran for why Republicans got wiped out in so many gubernatorial, Senate and House races. “The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night,” Vance wrote in a social media post.
“如果你想说这是值得的，想说未来6年失去参议院是值得的，那就说吧。论证这是值得付出的代价。无论同意与否，这至少是诚实的，”他辩称。“但每个人都知道我们为什么失败。任何关于我们今后何去何从的诚实讨论都必须从那里开始，”万斯补充道。金里奇表示，政治势头似乎正在转向国务卿马尔科·卢比奥。“想要推举国务卿马尔科·卢比奥参选的人数之多令人震惊，”他补充道。
“If you’d like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that’s at least honest,” he argued. “But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there,” Vance added. Gingrich said the political momentum appears to be shifting to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. “The number of people who want to draft Secretary of State Marco Rubio is staggering,” he added.
金里奇表示，其他潜在的白宫候选人可能会从万斯竞选下一任总统的光环消退中受益。“特德·克鲁兹、汤姆·科顿、罗恩·德桑蒂斯、皮特·赫格塞斯、格伦·扬金，以及多得令人惊讶的一批人可能会认定，这是他们利用这场令人震惊的败选所带来的混乱的机会，争取成为能够拯救党和国家的旗手，”他预测道。
Gingrich said other potential White House candidates could benefit from the "luster" coming off Vance’s bid to become the next president. “Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton, Ron DeSantis, Pete Hegseth, Glenn Youngkin, and a surprising number of people may decide this is their chance to take advantage of the chaos of the shocking defeat and seek to be the champion who can rescue the party and the country,” he predicted.
克鲁兹和科顿是来自得克萨斯州和阿肯色州的共和党参议员。德桑蒂斯和扬金分别是佛罗里达州和弗吉尼亚州的州长和前州长。赫格塞思是国防部长。
Cruz and Cotton are Republican senators from Texas and Arkansas. DeSantis and Youngkin are the governor and former governor of Florida and Virginia, respectively. And Hegseth is the secretary of Defense.